I woke up at 4am realizing I missed the whole 'put wood in the woodstove' moment around midnight in midcoast area. 45 in the kitchen, heatpump cranked.
We had -38f with wind-chill, -18f actual it seems like.
I've had the pellet stove running all night. Baseboard heaters can't keep up. Suited up like it was the Arctic, to feed pigs and chickens. The pigs have been locked in their shed for two days with a radiant heater. The chickens won't eat in the coop, which also has a heater. I'm hoping no one dies.
I pulled two eggs out of the coop last night and they cracked as soon as they hit the cold air. Wild stuff. -12F when I woke up with a wind chill putting it at "feels like -35F."
My chickens also made it, boarded up and huddle mode. Have 2 (had 3, one got hawked I think) ducks that tend to go to a different coup, but they were lugged into the heat pumped workshop in a cat carrier for the night and likely until tomorrow am. Not much heat generated with only 2 of em, though they do have a light.
Funny about the eggs, we had a few days before eggs, and they made a divot in the ice on the ground without breaking, at all.
Hope your animals turned out okay! 38 ish maybe tomorrow -- maybe busting the Miata out!
Left a tap barely running and have the furnace on fan only mode dumping some lackluster upstairs heat into the basement. 170 year old house, knock on wood, no explosions yet!
(Naturally I've been gung go about the whole no oil since last March!) -- life test? Probably should put some in tank for moments like these, but we don't ever seem to take the easy way out.
Didn't bother try to start a car yet, no need, another days worry! (And thank you!)
