My poor babies are cold

[R-Teddy]

I live in Fayetteville North Carolina. We very RARELY get snow, but today is a blizzard. And its COLD. mid 20's, which for here is cold. Sadly, most North Carolina homes, or at least the ones in fayetteville have heat pumps instead of furnaces. Well whoever invented the heat pump, and who ever decided most north Carolina homes should have them were idiots. They do NOT work at all for heating once it gets below 37 degrees. So I am using electric heaters, an putting up blankets to the entrance ways of my living room an kitchen, to keep the heat contained in those two rooms.

but my poor babies are, or were cold. I have one of those slings you use for little human babies to carry them around. I still have it from when my grand baby was little and I put that on, wrapped little Athena up in a baby blanket and have her tucked up against me in that sling. shes nice and toasty there an quite content. My Shih Tzu is on the coach under a nice warm down blanket. so they are ok. but they dont want to play like normal.

[jasminescottage]

it is cold here in georgia too. it did this a few weeks ago.. low temp/snow/sleet.. i just kept pajamas on gracie to keep her snug and cuddled her up each time i brought her in from going potty outside.

i have to give it to our little trooper that she will brave the ice/snow/cold to do her business outside. i think it is an upside of beginning potty training early.

the pajamas are the best for us as they are not too hot for inside and already on her when she has to go outside. at this young age there is little time to get in a coat or whatnot when she has sounded the go potty alarm.

[Magnus]

We're getting ready for the storm up here... Hopefully, we won't lose power and be left sitting in the cold. Seems like we've been getting these storms more often. Maybe it's time to get a generator.

[swjones]

Located in northeast Georgia, just above Atlanta, lots of snow and now sleet. Hall County expected to get 4 more inches of snow tonight. Glad my boy uses his indoor potty.

[Cherie6446]

I've been watching the news re the east coast. Sorry that this winter has been so cold for you all. Today in San Diego it is 82 where I live. Don't hit me with snowballs please. It's too warm. My poor fruit tree thinks it is spring and has budded out. We usually get a cold storm in April with snow in our mountains just to confuse the plants. Hope all of you stay warm. I really do feel bad for you and your babies. I hate being cold.

[gracielove]

I hope things warm up for you soon. We have been having below zero temps for much of January and February. Our stone floors get quite chilly when it gets that cold out so Gracie is always looking for a way to keep warm.

If you have a heating pad our heating throw they can really help the pups get their feet warmed up fast. We also have one of those cuddle cups that she can climb into if no laps are available. I won't leave the electrical things on when I am gone so it comes in handy to have something she can cuddle up in when no one is home.

A long time ago I lived in North Carolina. They had an especially cold winter and one day it snowed almost a foot. It sent everyone into a panic because most people don't have the snow tires or snow plows to help make travel easier. The snow melted in a couple of days but things were nutty there for a while. This winter seems to have gone on too long already and yet we still have several weeks to go!

[R-Teddy]

No one here is complaining about whinny Southerners. but a friend of mine wrote this up as a message to those who think Southerners are whinny about the snow when they have had so much.....


WHAT NORTHERNERS DON'T GET ABOUT “WHINNY SOUTHERNERS” WHEN IT COMES TO SNOW AND COLD.

Mind you, being a native born Michigander, I o my fair share of making fun of the southerners down here when it snows, BUT, now that I have lived here for years. Here is what those of you Northerners who complain about the Southerners whining don't get.

1. HEAT PUMPS....do you North bound people even know what those are? Well I can't tell you exactly what they are, but, it is what a lot of homes down here in the south have for heating their homes. At least here in North Carolina it is, and I heard in Tennessee as well. Where you have your great working furnaces that are located inside of your homes, and keep your homes nice and toasty on the most part in the dead cold of winter, even below zero temps, we have these. A heat pump is usually ( from my understanding) a device that acts as both a central air ( as in air conditioning) unit and heating until in one. It is locate OUTSIDE of your home. This being the case, when it gets real cold. Like anything under 37 degrees, it stops working as far as heat is concerned. You very quickly find that your “Heating system” is blowing out nothing but extremely cold air as if you had the air conditioning on. Why? Well I can only assume because it is OUTSIDE and so the heating system can not over power the cold temps and is in fact blowing outside temp air into your house. So, we are then left then to heat out house through other methods, usually portable electric heaters, or kerosene heaters, or if you lucky, a fireplace. As Im sure you can guess, this is extremely expensive an doesnt heat the whole house, unless you put one in every room. But good luck finding a way to do that without blowing your circuit breakers.

2. Down here in the south, well NC anyway, they dont even know what a real WINTER COAT is, much less do the stores sell them, and so no one owns them. Down here, our “Winter Coats” are what most of you up north would call a “Light fall Jacket.” Not made to keep you warm when it is actually COLD as in below 35 degrees.

3. Rarely in the south are “winter boots” needed. Stores here in NC do sell them, but like the winter coats, not like the ones you find in the northern states. Our winter boots are more fashion statements then they are actually built to withstand the true wetness and coldness of real winter conditions. Also, the stores really dont sell that overly large amount of them. Especially if it does snow, you find the stores run out of them quick. So most people down here dont even own winter boots. Therefore, they are walking around in this Snow in addition to a “light fall jacket, a pair of tennis shoes, loathers, or high heel shoes. Why? Some would say well that is stupid, but no, its because that is all they have.

4. Snow removal....I think the entire state of North Carolina only has as many snow removal trucks as most northern states have in just one COUNTY, and far less practice in using them. Trust me when I tell you, they DONT know how to use them. When there is a lot of snow, I have found they usually ended up causing more of a mess and hazardous roads AFTER plowing then it was before they did. Why? Because they rarely have to do it. They dont know how to do it right......lol. ….oh, and most people around my neighborhood anyway dont own snow shovels or snow blowers and the such. Its pretty hard to even find them to buy here in Fayetteville.

5. Many, if not most of you northerners, when learning how to drive at age 15/ 16, learned how to o so in the snow. If not, within the first year of learning how to drive you were likely driving in it. Down here, the natives anyway RARELY drive in snow. They dont know their head from their butts when it comes to how to do so. Stuff that make perfect sense, or would be common sense for you, and be second nature for you to do, they are clueless about. Also, most dont have now tires and other such "equipment " most of you would have for their cars. Heck, I havnt met anyone down here that has a widow scraper..lol.. something that is found somewhere in most every car up north.


So yes...they whine, but its because they are not use to it, they do not have the proper equipment nor the clothing and know how for this stuff they rarely get. So northerners...please stop whining about the whiny Southerners.

[Lovetodream88]

We have a heat pump and it keeps our house at 68 (what we have it set at) even when it was in the negative numbers a few weeks ago. Could yours be broken? It started snowing here at 8pm and I went and showed Callie the snow out the window at 9:30pm and she decided she had to go out and run around in the snow lol but I do have her in a very warm sweater and we are sorta used to cold weather.

[R-Teddy]

Originally Posted by Lovetodream88

We have a heat pump and it keeps our house at 68 (what we have it set at) even when it was in the negative numbers a few weeks ago. Could yours be broken? It started snowing here at 8pm and I went and showed Callie the snow out the window at 9:30pm and she decided she had to go out and run around in the snow lol but I do have her in a very warm sweater and we are sorta used to cold weather.

No, our heat pump is actually brand new. put in last October. And I have had almost everyone I know who has one here in NC anyway say the same thing. Had a friend in Tennessee say the same thing to. maybe yours is the plesent acception.........lol

[gracielove]

Originally Posted by R-Teddy

No one here is complaining about whinny Southerners. but a friend of mine wrote this up as a message to those who think Southerners are whinny about the snow when they have had so much.....


WHAT NORTHERNERS DON'T GET ABOUT “WHINNY SOUTHERNERS” WHEN IT COMES TO SNOW AND COLD.

Mind you, being a native born Michigander, I o my fair share of making fun of the southerners down here when it snows, BUT, now that I have lived here for years. Here is what those of you Northerners who complain about the Southerners whining don't get.

1. HEAT PUMPS....do you North bound people even know what those are? Well I can't tell you exactly what they are, but, it is what a lot of homes down here in the south have for heating their homes. At least here in North Carolina it is, and I heard in Tennessee as well. Where you have your great working furnaces that are located inside of your homes, and keep your homes nice and toasty on the most part in the dead cold of winter, even below zero temps, we have these. A heat pump is usually ( from my understanding) a device that acts as both a central air ( as in air conditioning) unit and heating until in one. It is locate OUTSIDE of your home. This being the case, when it gets real cold. Like anything under 37 degrees, it stops working as far as heat is concerned. You very quickly find that your “Heating system” is blowing out nothing but extremely cold air as if you had the air conditioning on. Why? Well I can only assume because it is OUTSIDE and so the heating system can not over power the cold temps and is in fact blowing outside temp air into your house. So, we are then left then to heat out house through other methods, usually portable electric heaters, or kerosene heaters, or if you lucky, a fireplace. As Im sure you can guess, this is extremely expensive an doesnt heat the whole house, unless you put one in every room. But good luck finding a way to do that without blowing your circuit breakers.

2. Down here in the south, well NC anyway, they dont even know what a real WINTER COAT is, much less do the stores sell them, and so no one owns them. Down here, our “Winter Coats” are what most of you up north would call a “Light fall Jacket.” Not made to keep you warm when it is actually COLD as in below 35 degrees.

3. Rarely in the south are “winter boots” needed. Stores here in NC do sell them, but like the winter coats, not like the ones you find in the northern states. Our winter boots are more fashion statements then they are actually built to withstand the true wetness and coldness of real winter conditions. Also, the stores really dont sell that overly large amount of them. Especially if it does snow, you find the stores run out of them quick. So most people down here dont even own winter boots. Therefore, they are walking around in this Snow in addition to a “light fall jacket, a pair of tennis shoes, loathers, or high heel shoes. Why? Some would say well that is stupid, but no, its because that is all they have.

4. Snow removal....I think the entire state of North Carolina only has as many snow removal trucks as most northern states have in just one COUNTY, and far less practice in using them. Trust me when I tell you, they DONT know how to use them. When there is a lot of snow, I have found they usually ended up causing more of a mess and hazardous roads AFTER plowing then it was before they did. Why? Because they rarely have to do it. They dont know how to do it right......lol. ….oh, and most people around my neighborhood anyway dont own snow shovels or snow blowers and the such. Its pretty hard to even find them to buy here in Fayetteville.

5. Many, if not most of you northerners, when learning how to drive at age 15/ 16, learned how to o so in the snow. If not, within the first year of learning how to drive you were likely driving in it. Down here, the natives anyway RARELY drive in snow. They dont know their head from their butts when it comes to how to do so. Stuff that make perfect sense, or would be common sense for you, and be second nature for you to do, they are clueless about. Also, most dont have now tires and other such "equipment " most of you would have for their cars. Heck, I havnt met anyone down here that has a widow scraper..lol.. something that is found somewhere in most every car up north.


So yes...they whine, but its because they are not use to it, they do not have the proper equipment nor the clothing and know how for this stuff they rarely get. So northerners...please stop whining about the whiny Southerners.

I suppose what your friend says is partially true but we live in a world where we can obtain just about anything through the mail or some delivery service....though maybe not a snow plow.

When I lived there several decades ago they had gas furnaces. Not much insulation but they did have furnaces. Maybe some genius has since come up with the pump since then. If people don't like the pump why don't they insist that builders not use them?

You live in an area that does not usually get snow storms but obviously it has always been a possibility. I know it was quite cold down there during the winters I lived there so people must be ready to deal with some cold.

I don't know of anyone who makes fun of southerners that have to suffer through a storm. It is no more fun for northerners than southerns. We lose electricity just like southerners do when it ices.

Everyone, north and south, should stay home and stay warm during a storm. We may have snow plows up here but the roads are still dangerous even with snow tires and after the plow has gone through.

Many counties are so broke they don't bother to plow until the storm is over so having a plow is not always a great advantage when it is parked in the garage. You should see the cars and trucks with dents in them during the winters up here cars slide and there is a lot of danger on the roads up here.

[R-Teddy]

Originally Posted by gracielove

I suppose what your friend says is partially true but we live in a world where we can obtain just about anything through the mail or some delivery service....though maybe not a snow plow.

When I lived there several decades ago they had gas furnaces. Not much insulation but they did have furnaces. Maybe some genius has since come up with the pump since then. If people don't like the pump why don't they insist that builders not use them?

You live in an area that does not usually get snow storms but obviously it has always been a possibility. I know it was quite cold down there during the winters I lived there so people must be ready to deal with some cold.

I don't know of anyone who makes fun of southerners that have to suffer through a storm. It is no more fun for northerners than southerns. We lose electricity just like southerners do when it ices.

Everyone, north and south, should stay home and stay warm during a storm. We may have snow plows up here but the roads are still dangerous even with snow tires and after the plow has gone through.

Many counties are so broke they don't bother to plow until the storm is over so having a plow is not always a great advantage when it is parked in the garage. You should see the cars and trucks with dents in them during the winters up here cars slide and there is a lot of danger on the roads up here.

Yes, most stuff can be obtained through the mail. but when you rarely to never need it, most people would not think to do so, or that they would have the need to.

Well maybe you have your house built for you. but not everyone can. Most people I know can't. they have what the house came with. and in my case, I rent. so im stuck with what my landlord supplied. and I can not afford to be too picky on where I live to where I can say, I refuse to live in a place that is heated by a heat pump, and wait to rent a place that has something better. I suppose someone decided it would be fine, those who did build the houses, as it doesnt not usually get that cold down here to where it would be a problem. and when it does, usually it is only for a few days. But things have been changing the past few years or so.

I dont know anyone who is making fun of the Northerners for what they have suffered, but I have seen a WHOLE LOT of people making fun of the southerners. Its all over facebook for example. I have a lot of friends and relatives that live up north. I certainly do understand all the hardships gone through up there, as does my friend whom I went to high school with. We both grew up in the same place.

[Zoey Zendaya]

Oh please everybody be careful on the roads. I'm pretty experienced on these slushy ice covered roads, but now I'm retired I just stay OFF of them except for a grocery run.

This vidio clip is a real eye opener on what can happen when you think your traveling on fairly decent roads. Notice the slush in the middle.Caught on someone's dash cam. I did a complete 180 on slush once , this person wasn't so lucky. Type in

Moments notice your dead, it's on you tube.

[GuinnessStout]

Furnances in Florida are something you see in old homes that have not been updated and have central heat and air... And why would we even think of wasting space for our sundresses and bathing suits with a big bulky coat

[R-Teddy]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

Furnances in Florida are something you see in old homes that have not been updated and have central heat and air... And why would we even think of wasting space for our sundresses and bathing suits with a big bulky coat

lol so true, so true.