Recent Comments

1. 12 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I’m pretty sure you need electricity to run the pump that circulates the hot water, too.

2. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I hope you’re where there’s lots of sunshine. Hereabouts (southeastern lower MI) the weather this time of year runs to heavy overcast.

3. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I think that for once that’s dropped off Janis’s radar, maybe.

4. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   “But in most of the country, the temperature can drop to minus forty and stay there for a week or two.”

   Is that -40*F* or -40*C*? (heh heh – tactful of you to choose that round number!)

5. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   She’s worried about losing her phone service because she can’t charge her batteries!

6. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Ah yes, the 2003 outage. It wasn’t the entire northern US. Somewhere around maybe Chicago (IIRC) & points west things were fine. Satellite photos were spectacular—city lights most places, but a large quadrant of the US (OK, and parts of Canada!) were totally black. Northeast and northern midwestern US.

7. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   I kind of suspect Janis’s big worry is not being able to charge her phone.

8. 16 days ago on Arlo and Janis

   Hmph. Here in town, we’ve had outages of a week or so, more than once. (Wind more than snow or ice is often the main culprit—a tree takes out nearby power lines, and even bringing in crews from other states DTE is slow.)

9. 17 days ago on Luann

   Me either. (Never watch TV (for over half a century). I’d add, “I’m too old for that one”, except it sounds like it may have been old enough—the Charmin guy was.)

10. 19 days ago on Luann

    @Tenax “5/18/2023 gives a little backstory …. his Mom had a severe stroke …”

    Thank you for posting that!