*Winter Survival Questions**

[Blue_Frog]

Ahh... but the best part about the sub-zero temperatures? Staying inside beside the fire wrapped up in a big fluffy puffy comforter, with a hot chocolate and baileys and a pile of dogs, watching the fluffy snow fall and cover the trees.

(until you have to get up in the morning and shovel all the no-longer-fluffy-now-super-dense snow off the drive to get to work)

[cassiesmom]

A tropical heat wave...

The temperature is up - to - 7 F! Woohoo, we broke zero! Tomorrow's forecast high is 18 F. The only good thing about an unexpected snowstorm is that snow on the car conceals how grossly dirty the car is because it's been too nasty cold to go to the car wash. Hurry up, spring!

[elizabethann]

A tropical heat wave...

The temperature is up - to - 7 F! Woohoo, we broke zero! Tomorrow's forecast high is 18 F. The only good thing about an unexpected snowstorm is that snow on the car conceals how grossly dirty the car is because it's been too nasty cold to go to the car wash. Hurry up, spring!

I have to laugh at your post. I had to put something in my wagon's trunk this morning and ended up getting all filthy. I had that white dirt from my car all over my mittens, pants & jacket. It was gross.

[Daisy and Delilah]

I feel sorry for those poor scientists, Sandra!! What a dedicated group they must be(among many others of you here on this board). According to NOAA......does it ever warm up in that place?? I wonder if elizabethann is close to that area.

[Freedom]

Oh yes, I think it reaches 70 in the summer. It is a HUGE tourist attraction in summer time. Youc an either drive your car up or take a tour bus. I have never driven, the road loops and twists and you are constantly on the edge of the mountain; and coming down you ruin your brakes. I've been up in the tour bus 2 or 3 times. Wonderful views!

Here is the link to their observatory:
http://www.mountwashington.org/

Another good one, with photos.
http://www.mountwashington.com/weather/index.html

Here is the story of the auto road:
http://www.mountwashingtonautoroad.com/

Alittle known factoid: If you own a Honda, and you approach the ticket booth to driv eup the auto road yourself in your Honda, you are provided with a ticket for the tour bus instead; the Honda Corp knows their brake system can't hold out on the drive back down. At least, this was true in the 1980's!!!!

[Karen]

There is a third way to get to the top - the cog railway!

We've been up, in the summertime, and while it was 80 degrees that day at the bottom, it was only 60 or so at the top, so I got a sweatshirt out of the trip - they smartly sell them - as well as other trinkets - at the hotel gift shop at the top!

Mt. Washington is the highest of the White Mountains, elizabethann is - like most of New Hampshire's human residents - at a much lower altitude!

[pitc9]

It's gotten up to 16 here today! With the windchill of Zero!

Funny thing is... it doesn't FEEL warmer than yesterday's high of 12!

[Daisy and Delilah]

A tropical heat wave...

The temperature is up - to - 7 F! Woohoo, we broke zero! Tomorrow's forecast high is 18 F. The only good thing about an unexpected snowstorm is that snow on the car conceals how grossly dirty the car is because it's been too nasty cold to go to the car wash. Hurry up, spring!

WHOA!!! All the way up to 18 tomorrow? Break out the shorts and flip flops!! I've heard the weather reports for Chicago all over the news all day. I know alot of you are really starting to do a "Spring Dance"

[Freedom]

Hey Terry when you are on NOAA, check on Mount Washington. It is in New Hampshire, and has the harshest weather!!! And remember, scientists are up there ALL winter!!!!

[ramanth]

Well, we just figured out why our apartment has been so cold. The thermostat isn't properly working and there is no weather stripping around our front door!

Everytime someone entered or exited the building, it was sucking the warm air right out of our apartment.

We've had the furnace set at 75 and the thermometer we have says the apartment is 61 F. Maintenence is stopping by this morning to install weather stripping and a new thermostat.