Your doing well keeping the temp in the high 50's F, under the
circumstances. A few more months from relief, I guess.
Good luck.
Peter

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"SuE" wrote in message
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:37:10 GMT, "P Max"
wrote:

You are doing it tough, Sue. The iced up snow must be restrictive. How do
you protect your orchids?

We have a gh. Built in the early 80's the long side 12 feet, is
glass. I have 50% shadecloth on it at all times. When we changed out
the end caps to twinwall it became easier to heat. The house has hot
water heat so we just ran a loop out to the gh. It is a lean-to
against the back (west) side of the house. The south end is even with
the end of the house. We added a small electric heater in the stair
well (cold sink) but have just held high 50's thru the worst of the
cold. We are not used to long cold stretches or long snow stretches.

This is the area where you can jump temps. Yesterday it was from 1 to
46 - just a normal day/night shift. Last week we were happy with a
high of 36 this week it is predicted to be our low. 'Hold thumbs' we
hit 50 degrees F. today. We will then start to reclaim the street.

The city of Denver is importing a big snow melting machine such as
they used to clear NY city central area so they can have the New Years
Eve bash ice free. It melts 200 tons an hour. I have no idea what
volume that is. But with the Mountains of snow from clearing parking
lots and streets into dump trucks - then piling it centrally... They
have some parks (ball fields) and parking lots to unclog.

SuE
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