Yes, but totally depends on the unit. My Gree Sapphire is still super efficient at -17f. My Mr. Cool is no good at all below -12

Yes, I would like to have had the power consumption data for this post, but the BED consumption tracker does not always update in real time. I may have to wait until tomorrow for the data.

According to the usage tracker, last year on a similar day (Jan 21, High of 6, low of -14), I used about 90 kwh, but I charged my car and used a space heater. Assuming $0.16 per kwh that works out to about $15 for that day.

Well I would say we fundamentally disagree on this. I do appreciate your sentiment and think your heart is in the right place. I would recommend volunteering and donating money to credible charities instead of pushing for our local taxes to support people moving in to the state for the soul purpose of the Covid housing vouchers.

State and Local taxes are for our communities. We have enough underfunded programs in the state to worry about before spending it on people who have never been a member of our communities. I’m not coming at this from some heartless aspect of it either, I’ve participated in many church fundraisers for community projects addressing these issues, I’m also a volunteer fire fighter and have been involved with setting up warming shelters. I’m just not okay with the idea of our state taxes going to fund programs that are incentivizing people to move in to take advantage of said programs.

Also, the reason why I said my comment on needing to show a bill to attain residency was in direct response to your comment “are you going to ask them to show a bill to prove their residency” honestly, i do not think these housing vouchers ever should have existed. There are much more effective ways to tackle homelessness than providing no strings attached hotel rooms. It’s not healthy for our communities, the homeless people receiving those vouchers, as well as our budget.

Sunflower seeds are about 6 mm to 10 mm in length and feature conical shape with a smooth surface. Their black outer coat (hull) encloses single, gray-white edible-kernel inside. Each sunflower head may hold several hundreds of edible oil seeds.

Looks like the barn on the farm where my father grew up in Franklin.

I have an abundance of wool socks that either lost their pair over the years or developed holes from much use. I leave them out on my fence and they grab them. With the colder weather this week four socks were taken this week.

I also fill suet feeders with clumps of dog hair brushed from my dogs. Both the birds and squirrels take hair from the feeders.

I also up the quantity of food and feeders I put out for the critters. I burned through 40# of sunflower seeds this week!!

-19 / feels like -34 / Castleton

Well aren’t you cute. No offense, but this is the shit that’s not wanted, nor welcome here. Piss off.

Public schools have specifically failed at allowing every child to advance at their own level with no restrictions. It caters to the kids in the middle, with enormous amounts of resources thrown at kids on the bottom. The struggle to work with groups of kids with such varying needs is a specific complaint of teachers.

We pretend that public schools have standards they are required to meet, but with 1/5 of Americans being functionally illiterate, I think we need to accept that no real standards exist or are adhered to.

Yes. The poors aren't welcome here. Go where you're wanted.

That sounds harsh but it's true. The policies of this state make lower income living near Burlington/Stowe/Upper Valley nearly impossible while finding a decent job outside those areas is not easy. Unless you like Rutland:(

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For some reason I can't reply to the comment below (thank you reddit!), but I can edit my comment, so I'll use that as a reply.

People can leave - bus tickets are cheap, the USA is a gigantic country and there are lots of places that are more hospitable to lower income levels (e.g. you can earn a decent living, find solid blue collar to lower end white collar work, buy a house, and have a decent community. I have lived and worked a number of them.

The "can't" mentality is self fulfilling, but at least several of your ancestors didn't have that mindset and they had to overcome massive obstacles, some of which included the Bering Land Bridge, an ice age, and giant short faced bears... or one could get a Greyhound ticket...

I'd delete this comment, you might get fired

/s but maybe not

Exactly. The solution is staring the politicians in the face and they keep reaching for something else.

Why AirBnB? What else does Vermont have to offer? It's like a Yankee theme park of failing farms and few jobs.

Affordable housing is being able to purchase a house using a conventional loan on the open market. Income x 3-4 will be your max price. Reducing regulations and allowing for higher density housing (which allows for municipal water, sewer, and gas as well as cheaper electricity connections) will all shift the cost curve down. Even a sales tax reduction will save (e.g. Williston VT has a total sales tax of 7% vs NH where those same materials would be ~7% cheaper).

How about power consumption? Heat pumps typically have a significant drop in efficiency the greater the temperature difference and eventually converges on resistance heating.

26 below in Peacham; windy as a sonofabitch.

Very nice!

-14 on the border of Addison county and rutland county. Pellet stove is keeping my house 65

I’m sure it would go completely unnoticed by most stoners out there

What would humanity do all day if it had to stop working at overcomplicating things?

Air bibs should be illegal in Vermont. Also second homes should be taxed at 2X. New residents should also share the burden as them moving here usually means someone else got displaced

Great to see this level of detail. Nice post. Thank you.

I miss milking cows when it’s cold out. The teets kept my hands warm. Plus I didn’t have to deal with people.

Nice.

"Why would anyone blame a parent that wants a voucher (currently available in sending towns and reciprocal districts) for an alternative to a public school that isn’t a fit for their child?"

Because I don't want to pay for some stranger's kid to attend a religious school any more than religious people want to see their tax money going to support things they morally oppose.

I built a solar field on star farm road a few years ago. The landowner wanted to build an apartment building, but the city was fighting it, so he had an array built because it was less of a struggle.

It also seems that new construction apartments are built for section 8 or 55+.

-15 -19 in Athens but it's windy as fuck out there