Killed by dry

[susandennis]

This dry air is going to kill me. I'm either going to be struck down by a bolt from this horrible static electricity or my dried up nose is going to bleed me out. This sucks. It's bad enough we have no snow but in turning off the snow, they are going to dry us to death. I have a pot of water boiling on the stove. It probably provides only a psychological benefit but I'll take what I can get.

Maybe I'll go back and stare at ruralrob's delicious snow photos again...

Your friend, the human prune.

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[geordie.livejournal.com]

That was the thing in the north east in winter, and in Bend both summer and winter. Bone dry. In Bend in the summer their humidity heads for single digits, so the house I was looking at had a humidifier and an electrostatic dust filter built into the central HVAC system. I'd never seen a humidifier until I visited New Hampshire.

[susandennis]

Of course, in the northeast the dry comes from heating the house. Here you get it for free. I do not use any heat in this house. I have electric baseboards and I've had them on twice in 14 years (just to see if they worked). If I had rooms I could block off (instead of 1,300 sq feet of open space) I would definately get a humidifier.

[treebreeze.livejournal.com]

This is may seem a bit drastic my dear, but maybe if you moaned and wailed about snow and cold as much as me, it would trigger the weather gods to heap it on to you? ;)

Sorry the last system was a bust. Friends in the Bay Area, Santa Cruz and Monterey say snow is on the way for their hills...what's up with that!

[pheon.livejournal.com]

I agree about the humidity being so low. I have had a pot of water steaming on the stove and I still can't get the humidity above 30%. Probably due to the fact that it is only 24 degrees out.

[nt.livejournal.com]

It gets very dry here in the winter, too. The worst of it for me is dry skin (my knuckles sometimes crack and bleed) and the static electricity that plagues my stereo system (that really bugs me).

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Please don't electrocute your cats by petting them.

DIY Humidity

[nezbitthecat.livejournal.com]

Pots of simmering water work well usually. Don't forget to keep replenishing the water.
My solution is this. I live in a townhouse deal with a basement and two floors stacked on top of each other. Not terribly large. I have three four-foot diameter baby wading pools full of water set up in the basement . They take the edge off the dryness and keep things around 50% in the Winter. They hold plenty of water so I don't have to refill very often. I keep them about half full.
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Re: DIY Humidity

[susandennis]

That's very clever - lost of surface area, too!