Here in North Bergen, New Jersey, three miles west of the Empire State Building in New York City, is is ten degrees (10° F). To us here in the NYC metro area, this is “real” cold!
The wind Chill says it feels like -1° F. I guess that “Polar Vortex” arrived here, finally.
Up at the Bugout house in northeastern Pennsylvania, the actual temperature right now is ZERO with a Wind chill to -7°F. The solar batteries in the cement block solar shed dropped from 50 to 48 degrees overnight according to the Battery Management System, well within the proper operational temperature. So it looks as though all the work my son and I did to better insulate that shed, have worked. For now.
If this cold keeps up much longer, I think even the work we did on that shed will succumb; but we’ll see.
SNOW PLOWING ISSUES
It started to snow here on Sunday and by about 8:00 PM, we…
