Baby, it's COLD outside...

[michiexile]

...and inside too, for this? This is California, where the weather is always nice, and thus the housebuilders don't hold with things like insulation, multiple glass panes, or heating.

It's frosty outside. We had snow yesterday. And I've been running the Very Small steam heater in my apartment non-stop for a couple of days.

Which it'd seem everyone else do too, because now the California power distribution entity CAISO report that power demand exceeds the available resources.

It'll be exciting to see how the Caltrain commute fares with ice on the tracks.

Comments

[longobord.livejournal.com]

Ice on the tracks is not a big deal. The weight of the train creates enough pressure that the ice will melt. Even if it didn't, the whole point of having steel on steel is to have a reduced friction surface. If it didn't melt, it should logically only make the train run that much more smoothly.

But that's purely hypothetical. Ice on the tracks would melt at temperatures far colder than this. Don't they have trains in Sweden?

[michiexile]

We do, and commuter trains in Stockholm regularly break down early fall when - AGAIN! - wet leaves settle on the rails and the power lines.

[amerikabrev.livejournal.com]

Stackars älskling! Men jag lovar att jag har det kallare här i Michigan...