Tag:Cold
5 Things to do While You Ride out the Storm
Winter Storm Nemo is on the horizon. The snow is supposed to start shortly after midnight and it’s not supposed to stop until noon the next day. That’s 36 hours of snowfall, and I just heard on the weather channel that some places in the Northeast can expect to see as much as 2 inches…
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Fact or Fiction: 5 Winter Myths vs The Facts
We’ve been talking winter recently. We’ve discussed prepping for the winter, and we’ve even dispelled a myth about cold weather causing a “cold” illness. What about other popular cold weather related myths out there? Are they true or not? I picked out five that I’ve heard fairly often and checked into them to find…
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Prudent ProTip – 5 Ways to Prep for a Winter Emergency
Last Thursday we discussed some steps you can take to prepare your car for harsh winter weather. Yesterday I posted a picture of exactly why preparing your car for winter is a great idea. Today, however, in virtue of a sweeping storm that knocked out power to many homes in the northeast and buried them…
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Cold Season – The Facts
It’s cold season. It’s also flu season. That’s what we call this time of year anyway. But why is there a “season” for a virus? Are Grandma and Mom right when they say “put on a coat or you’ll catch a cold”? Well…..no, not exactly. Since prudence dictates that one be well informed,…
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Prudent Protip: Preppin’ Your Car for the Cold
When the weather man says it’s going to be cold outside it’s best to listen. There are a lot of things you should do for the sake of personal safety (staying indoors comes to mind). Unfortunately, the working class doesn’t get to stay home just because the thermometer says -15 degrees. No, we have to…
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Witty Weds: Story of my life
So, I went outside and it was a bit snowy and cold last night. I took this picture here to give you an idea, though this was taken the next morning. Point is, it’s snowing pretty good. Now, a little back-story here, when it gets cold we have a wood stove in the kitchen, and it runs…
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Secret Santa 3
Today on Witty Wednesday: The conclusion of the exciting secret Santa series. So far we’ve shunned Matt until he reached the breaking point and was driven to thievery. When we left off Matt was vaulting a deck railing to get away with his stolen gift….lets pick it up there.
5 Things To Do With Your Kids During Christmas Vacation
There’s this thing about vacations. They have a certain appeal to children. That appeal is that there’s no boring, horrible, awful, learning filled school! While kids usually get excited for this sort of thing, I can see the dread in the eyes of parents everywhere; especially parents of 6 to 12 year old little…
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Prudent ProTip: Fighting Windshield Fog
Temperatures are starting to fall below freezing at night, and everyone like me(that is, who has no garage) knows that leaving your car outside over night when the temperature is below freezing is likely to lead to you waking up to it looking something like mine did just yesterday morning. I have a…
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What We're Up to: Tim Does an Energy Audit!
One of the many services we offer at Prudent Living is an energy audit. This process involves us using a machine akin to a giant vacuum to suck the air out of a house (no, not all the air, just enough to make the pressure different inside). Once the air pressure inside the house is…
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