Showing posts with label heater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heater. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

got heat?

We finally got the heater fixed :-) so now we are just waiting for it to warm up the house. It my take a while though...

When I got home I put a thermometer in the living room. It proved to be kind of cold in there



Our new space heater is actually working and when I moved both space heaters in the living room to help heat it up the fuse popped... Anyway here it is



To "seal" off some of the room I had put up a backdrop between the living room and the kitchen. It did help even though it may not really look in place ;-)



To help with the confinement (having sealed off the living room) I got a mattress, blankets and the portable DVD player out for Emma. It does kind of look like she enjoys it at little bit. She wasn't too happy when I took it down...







Come ooooon heat....

It's cold outside....

So this morning was rather eventful...

Jacki woke me up at 4am because she was cold. She had checked the heater and guess what... it was dead. Well sort of dead. Fan was running, gas was working but no spark...
So the house was down to 60 at that time.

She woke me up and started speed talking. Not exactly what my head can handle at that time of day. I mean, I didn't even have my coffee yet...

Anyway as any guy of course I could look at it and by some miracle it would work... well not in this case...

Instead since I just couldn't fall asleep I got up and "sealed" off the living room (it's big and steals all the heat). Then I got the space heater going. Space heater is kind of the official description. It's more portable than it's heating. Anyway I went ahead and lighted candles and turned on the oven.

By 7 or so I ventured off to home depot and got a new ceramic space heater for a larger space that can warm things up a little bit before the heater guy get's there.

Finally driving to work I heard about a water main break on river road (no kidding). It's a 66 Inch water main so that is a ton of water and then some....

Check it out here: http://www.foxnews.com/.

The story so far:
DEVELOPING: Emergency workers on Monday were rescuing drivers trapped by rushing water after a water main break in Maryland.

Cars were stranded after the break at River Road and Fenway Drive in Bethesda, Montgomery County police said.
The county's Swift Water Rescue Team was called to the scene where a river of water of between 3 and 4 feet high trapped multiple vehicles on River Road.

Notice the basket being lowered from a helicopter!!!! no it's not a rescue at sea... It's a water main break!!!! Just kind of weird it had to happen on riverroad...
(btw. People are getting out safely)