My apartment has exceeded all my expectations. I had vowed to see how much of the winter I could stand before turning my heating on and to be honest I think I'm going to get through the whole thing. It's as warm as toast in here! Living on the top floor rocks. I presume that's the reason...all those suckers in the 5 floors below me are sending their sweet sweet heat up into my billet, because physics. 

Yep.  I'm in a house, but with two heating systems (one downstairs and one up).  The roommates like it warmer down there so I leave the upstairs one pretty low - I've even had to open up the window occasionally to let some of that nice 20F coolness in.

Sweet!

I remember how hot it used to be at my wife's apartment. (She moved down here before I did for a few months.)

I remember having the balcony door open all night when it was only 30F out to cool it off in there.

Probably how I caught Pneumonia. Doh!

Well until this year I haven't been able to turn off the heat in my place. It's one of those godawful old style NYC tenement radiators, and it's been missing a valve cap. Because of some issues they actually had to get right in there and replace a section of pipe before they replaced the cap. 

In the winters before this, the heat here was ridiculous. It was over 90 degrees. At the end of last winter I lost it and ran my AC all winter to combat the heat (even with all the windows open on a freezing night I was still sweating constantly). It came to a head when a girl I was with at the time got up and left in a taxi at 3am because she couldn't stand it (the heat, not my prowess ). I vowed this year was going to be different. 

I estimate that approximately $3,697,230,119 worth of heat is wasted in New York every year because people can't adjust those old radiators and they open their windows in desperation. On second thoughts triple that. 

Maybe you're just doing your part to keep New York warm?

craigb


Maybe you're just doing your part to keep New York warm?

You're not wrong. Back when the heating was on and I'd have my windows open, I'd have a line of 7 or 8 pigeons sat huddled on my sill 24/7. I actually feel bad about them this year. 

I hope the heat situation doesn't backfire for you in July and August.  

Old55

I hope the heat situation doesn't backfire for you in July and August.

I was thinking the same thing ... but since this is Bub 2.0, a nicer, friendlier, warmer, more positive Bub, I refrained. Didn't want to bring him down.

Bub

Old55

I hope the heat situation doesn't backfire for you in July and August.

I was thinking the same thing ... but since this is Bub 2.0, a nicer, friendlier, warmer, more positive Bub, I refrained. Didn't want to bring him down.

Good job, Bub.  Fortunately, I don't have those constraints.  

According to friends from Quebec, back home today, it was - 9 F, feeling like -21 F. (Yes, that's F, not celcius).

It was sort of strange to read their Facebook status and see the pics while sitting outside w/ the sun hitting so hard that I had to walk back in because my laptop was over-heating. 
 
I've actually seen worst, like below -40. 


If I were a geek, I'd say it's like I've moved from Hoth to Tatooine. Except I never had a Tauntaun. :(