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Here's a catchall thread for anything non-skiing-related about the lovely tri-state region:

EMSC said:
Me like the size of the snowbanks on the road. Reminds me of driving around during some of the good winters back in the day when growing up.
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Our house early Monday during a lull in the storm. We ended up in the low 20s. My cousin near Providence, RI won the contest in the upper 30s.
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The day after, hacking a path to our sidewalk for oil delivery with my grandfather's 1940s pickaxe from Cortland:
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Meanwhile, I'm hearing reports about Denver with temps in the low 70s?
 
jamesdeluxe said:
hacking a path to our sidewalk for oil delivery
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Such a New England/NYC metro thing. No where else in the country does oil for home heating.

jamesdeluxe said:
I'm hearing reports about Denver with temps in the low 70s?
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Yep. Part of it is fairly warm temps overall out west, but part of it is the winds are ripping through the front range from the West as the air comes downhill from the mountains. Won't be surprised if I hear of the R word at the base of the lowest ski areas today. But should be all snow on most of the mountain(s).
 
EMSC said:
Such a New England/NYC metro thing. No where else in the country does oil for home heating.
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We'd never encountered it until our move to NJ. Everyone here uses natural gas for their water heaters and clothes dryers; however, the majority of people use oil for heat. The houses where we live tend to be older than the national average, 100 to 140 years, and those have radiators/no duct work.
 
jamesdeluxe said:
We'd never encountered it until our move to NJ. Everyone here uses natural gas for their water heaters and clothes dryers; however, the majority of people use oil for heat. The houses where we live tend to be older than the national average, 100 to 140 years, and those have radiators/no duct work.
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i live in the NY metro area...95% of the homes around me use natural gas for heating... we have hot water baseboard heat...
 
jasoncapecod said:
i live in the NY metro area...95% of the homes around me use natural gas for heating... we have hot water baseboard heat...
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That's where NYC metro (and sorta Philly too) is a weird transition zone. Decent parts are all fuel oil, other other parts aren't. Never quite understood why it is called oil anymore either. It's basically Diesel with red dye added.

I grew up with baseboard heating via a natural gas fired boiler. A technology I've only ever seen in the USA in the New England and mid-Atlantic states. Not ubiquitous, but fairly common.
 
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