Winters Were Colder Back Then

Winters Were Colder Back Then There was a good reason for for why winters felt colder then. Tweet Email Print &nbps;Comment ‹ Back to Article new Embed | Share Photos (4) Photos Credit Lynne Ranieri Credit Lynne Ranieri Credit Lynne Ranieri Credit Lynne Ranieri Add your photos When my husband was a little boy, his home in central New Jersey had what they called 'ductless heat.' For him and his brother, that usually meant no heat. The boys' bedroom was on the third floor, but the heat was on the first floor. The coal-burning stove was in the basement and right above it was a large iron grate, through which the heat generated by that stove rose - without any ducts. As hot air does, a little of that heat rose from there up the narrow stairway to the second floor. What the warm air did not do was then turn and go up the narrow stairs to the third floor where he and his brother were - except in the summer, when all the hot air found its way to that then-stifling third floor. The coal-burning stove in the basement needed to be fed coal more than once a day in the winter and each time a load of coal went in, a load of coal ash was removed. The ash was put out at the curb a couple of times a week, where the town picked it up. Windy days that were also ash-pickup days meant a cloud of ash blowing all over the neighborhood - and onto the clean laundry on the clothes lines. The best thing about the ash, though, was that some of
Winters Were Colder Back Then There was a good reason for for why winters felt colder then. Tweet Email Print &nbps;Comment ‹ Back to Article new Embed | Share Photos (4) Photos Credit Lynne Ranieri Credit Lynne Ranieri Credit Lynne Ranieri Credit Lynne Ranieri Add your photos When my husband was a ...