Huh.. I'd strongly recommend not starting your car if you don't need to. Cars accumulate most of their wear during cold starts, and significantly more so during these kinds of temps. The oil won't adequately warm up by just idling unless you did so for an hour or so (coolant warms up significantly faster). Also, starting a car when a battery is very cold is going to wear out the battery much more than letting it sit and warm back up after the cold spell. The absolute best thing you could do would be to put your battery on a tender/charger. Also make sure your coolant is topped off and is at least 50% coolant (freezing point -36F).

If you do have to go somewhere during a point where it's in the negative teens or lower, I would recommend a short warm-up period (which is not normally necessary even in cold weather).

Gas has been better in recent weeks. Glad I converted over from oil a few months ago.

100% fool-proof unless it's a walk out basement. My neighbors baseboard heater froze. Nothing between the heater and outside except drywall, 3/4" air gap and concrete. His thermostat was set at 45F. My plumber advised to never set the thermostat lower than 55F.

Don’t worry, everything else is cheap! /s

I’ve been very impressed with the ski school at saddleback. It might not be quiet on weekends but the staff was awesome a few years ago when our kids were learning. Your best bet is to both be in separate lessons to start and then begin riding together and improving. Expect to have some aches for a day or 2 after your first time out.

Harmons lunch.

To add to this, my therapist doesn’t take my insurance so it falls into “out of network.” If your insurance has gotten better, and you have them on the phone, also ask about medically necessary out-of-network costs. They often put the deductible absurdly high but you might be able to get out of network care and then get reimbursed on the backend after you hit your max.

I second the studded snows. Don’t be an idiot running half worn all seasons. Your a danger to yourself and everyone else

Set to your comfort level and leave that temperature on hold. Most people turn the temperature up during, if home, and down at night for sleeping. The down side to this during extreme weather is the boiler won’t circulate hot water while the inside temperature drops. This could lead to pipes freezing during that off cycle.

Second, if you keep your home at 55, I’d recommend going to 60 and keep it at that temperature until the cold snap is over, all day and night.

Oh I believe you. Like I said, when its in the teens here on the rare occasion it’s like death. I can only imagine dropping a few degrees and then into the low low low -40s must be exponentially worse. Thanks for the heads up!

No that's for real. I mean the brain part is a small exaggeration but legit if you don't have face covering you are getting ice crystals all the way up your nose.

Keep the pressure on the downhill side of the uphill edge.

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Maybe start on skis first till you learn edge control. the initial learning curve on skis easier on flatter beginner style hills. I find the edgework on the board to be more challenging on beginner style terrain as you need a bit of inertia to keep the pressure on the downhill side of the uphill edge.

I drive for a living and 100% disagree! Maybe if you have a large SUV or truck with AWD/4WD -- but us FWD/RWD sedans have a hell of a time! And my brand new winter tires cost me like $600 installed!

Test out those new heat pumps I just got installed.

(Boiler is still operational.)

We have an older (1940) house with crap insulation.

Our rule-of-thumb has been to keep it no lower than 55 in order to avoid pipes freezing. But even over the past couple of weeks we turn it down 52 or so at night.

Is the prevailing wisdom that, in the case of exceptional cold like that predicted, we need to crank it so much higher? Heating oil is less expensive than fixing burst pipes, so no argument from a cost standpoint.

But... we really do prefer the house on the cooler side and the idea of setting the thermometer to 70 seems crazy and annoying from a comfort perspective. I feel like I'd have to crack a window in order to make the bedroom cool enough to sleep if our furnace is trying to heat up to 70!

Nest thermostats don't shut off the heat if people aren't sensed, it turns it back to the configured 'away' temperature. Getting past that, the default safety temp (temp to call for heat even if the thermostat was manually set to 'off') is 40 degrees. They would have had to intentionally disable the safety temp setting for this to have occurred. That is a fault of the user, not of the thermostat.

We've been using them for years - they save about a tank of oil each year, and we've gone on week-long vacations in the dead of winter with no issues of frozen pipes.

Mt. Abram all the way! Mt Abram Westside is a very chill place to learn. It's very reasonably priced and the overall vibe of the mountain is laid back compared to the crowded corporate resorts.

Mt Abram is getting recommended a lot here! Definitely going to check it out! Thanks! 😊

Haha damnnn

Awesome! Thank you for the advice!

Mt Abram!

> Dedicated winter studded tires on steel wheels are a necessity up here

Disagree. Only necessary when the roads are icy. Plenty of folks do just fine with all season tires. If you've got an extra $1500 burning a hole in your pocket, by all means buy studded Hakkas, but in most places in Maine they are really only needed a few days a year.

Gentleman and a scholar right here. Thanks for the info haha - I’m going up to Montreal Canada and it’s definitely not -44 but it’s going to be pretty cold and when I saw this, I figured if you guys can do it, I could probably get some information from the more extreme location that can translate to a lesser extreme location.

I here you. Again its not my ability or goal to block new housing, but I dont buy the lies. They can charge what they want. Im sick of honest people getting screwed in my home state.

Meridian's in Fairfield, and front and Main in Waterville are easily two of the better spots around.