How do generators work in terms of powering things up? Do they somehow hook into your breaker box, or do you run extension cords from plug-ins in the generator itself? And how much stuff can you power? I'm a complete novice at generators, but I keep thinking that it wouldn't be a bad idea to have one.

The year Derrick Thomas died.





Buckle up my friends.

Up here, the winter of 2013-2014 was the worst. We had two kinds of weather - sub zero or snowing. It was brutal and relentless and just went on and on and on. I think it was the end of February or maybe the beginning of March before we had a day where the temperature rose about freezing. Mountains of snow with nowhere left to put it, and it just kept coming.

I deal better with extreme cold weather than extreme hot weather, and get through the shitty cold days by remembering how much I hate the shitty hot days. But that line of reasoning stopped working during this frozen ****ing hell.

1976, 1983 or 4

I think he was referring to peeing on his car door

Nonsense, there are a limited number of openings.
We're taking applications, they must be accompanied by a recent photograph.

When was the last white christmas? I feel like there was a near blizzard on the 24th somewhere in the last 5-8 years.

that ice storm back in like maybe 95 or so, most of the city lost power for like a week or 2. that sucked

I was living in the CSU dorms at the time. I remember being able to nearly touch the top of the street lights from climbing the piles left from the futile efforts to plow the parking lots.

Over here on the Cali coast it got to a very low 32* recently and it was freezing out ��

It's not Kansas though.

If you rarely need one then a portable generator, with outlets one it is what you want to get. Pull it out of the garage, start it, plug your extension cords in and run them into the house. The size depends on how much of your house you want to power. The one I bought was 7500 watts. Not big enough to power everything by any means.

The worst storms I remember were the ice storm in January '95 that knocked out our power for the better part of a week and the blizzard in 2011 that dropped 17 inches or so of snow in CoMo and shut the city down for about four days.

In the first instance, we watched ABC on a six-inch black and white TV that was powered with D batteries and kept warm from radiant heat from the wood stove, since the blowers couldn't circulate the heat. In the second case, I spent about four or five hours shoveling the driveway.

Overall, though, I can't remember any winters that were consistently brutal for some reason. The last two have been diet Fall.

Were you worried about the roof collapsing?

It crossed my mind because at some places on the roof, drifts were at least six feet, but my house was built in 1995 and I guessed/hoped that they build them to withstand that. It was good, wet Spring snow too, not the stuff we get this time of year.

I was less worried about my 100+ year old house than my 10+ year old garage. I assumed that new construction would be less strong.

As far as I can tell, though, the 32 inches at my house was the second-most it had seen, with the most being 45 inches in 1913. That was before I lived there.