https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1 Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Mon, 11 May 2026 11:19:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39568 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:07:13 +0000 shiny 39568@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hee hee... "bitterly" cold to me is anything in the teens and below, the kind of cold that makes your nostril hairs freeze solid... I'm sure we have some Canadians on the group who are used to minus zero degree weather!</p> <p>It must be global warming or something: we had 60 degree weather here earlier this week, and now today we have snow on the ground. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39529 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 05:33:57 +0000 Angie 39529@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Bravo, Judy! What a relief. I'm sure you'll sleep better tonight too :-)</p> <p>Maya, there will definitely be a YLF convention on 31st Jan. I’m booking our flights tonight. As for the weather in NYC in January, I think that blue skies and freezing is the best we can hope for! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39522 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:53:26 +0000 judy 39522@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My parents got their power back! My mom emailed me late this afternoon....saying she had just taken a long hot shower :). So hopefully Nicole will get hers back soon too! Yes, I am so grateful for the neighbors that have been there for them when we couldn't be. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39496 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:40:08 +0000 Maya 39496@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, I had forgotten about this already ::shame::. I'm glad everyone is relatively well, but wow, Shiny, what a mess. I'm glad everything is relatively sorted though and nothing really serious happened. </p> <p>I really hope it warms up before the YLF convention next month (assuming it's still on). I can hardly move in all the layers I'm piling on. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39490 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:18:44 +0000 Angie 39490@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, Judy. How wretchedly stressful for your poor, poor parents. Thank goodness they have a support structure. Good luck! </p> <p>As Eva mentioned, we are having BITTERLY cold weather. It’s barely 30 degrees during the day. And there is no end in sight. Pull out the puffers! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39468 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:27:51 +0000 Eva 39468@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I was off-line for the weekend and didn't hear about the Boston storm until last night. Nicole and Shiny, I am so sorry to hear how bad you were both affected by the storm. I am glad everyone was okay. </p> <p>We have been unusually cold for Seattle. We are in for our storm tonight and tomorrow. The storm warning for last Saturday didn't pan out to be too bad. Hopefully, it won't be so bad tonight and tomorrow. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39302 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:47:05 +0000 judy 39302@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My (increasingly) elderly parents live in rural Southern NH...and have been without power for four days!! My dad is 90 now. Fortunately we have still been able to talk frequently on that old school rotary wall phone they have...and they are keeping warm with their woodstove. They have "young couples" on their street who look in on them and help them haul the wood in and cleared all the limbs from the driveway. My sister was able to go yesterday to clean out their fridge and bring them new food (which they can heat up on the wood stove!). We were talking about Christmas and presents and my mom said: "all I want for Christmas is POWER!" She misses her computer. Here in Seattle we are having New England weather...sunny and 28 degrees today!...and they are having our usual...cloudy and 50. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39243 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:58:03 +0000 greenglove 39243@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nicole and Shiny,<br /> So sorry about all that you went through. Like Tanya, I didn't hear about all of the problems until the next day. We went up to Maine for the weekend and many people were left without power over the weekend. Our loft was fine and no great problems in Salem. Glad to hear you are all ok and Nicole, it sounds like you have great neighbors!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39240 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:55:39 +0000 Lena 39240@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Nicole, I'm so glad you are alright and your power is back on. What a terrible ordeal. It's never fun having a power outage, but it's so much worse in the middle of winter. Yikes. </p> <p>I'm also glad to hear about people coming together and helping one another. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39238 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:09:38 +0000 yublocka 39238@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Like anne I had never heard of a sump pump either! Glad you guys are alright. What extremely nasty weather you've been having!!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39233 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:23:46 +0000 tarzy 39233@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ugh. What a horror to deal with. Stay warm (and fashionable, if you can.) </p> <p>We are expecting a big rainfall here in LA and everyone is freaking out. We rarely any kind of real weather here, so no one is ever prepared. It's actually cold here now, which I am sort of loving, just for the change of pace and the chance to wear my sweaters! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39228 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:18:35 +0000 Tanya 39228@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Nicole, I am sorry for everything you went through. I hope things are slowly getting back to normal now.</p> <p>I am afraid I am not very aware of whatever is going on, my typical day is get up, run to the lab, stay there till my eyes are closing, comeback and crash and the same the next day. Not quite an excuse, I know. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39225 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:15:06 +0000 anne 39225@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Goodness, what an trial!! I can't begin to imagine what losing power in your sort of cold would mean. Glad that there was so much community spirit Nicole</p> <p>Sorry to hear about your flooding Shiny! I can't believe you still managed to post here. (I hadn't even heard of a sump pum btw! thid things I learn here!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39212 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:19:20 +0000 shiny 39212@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, Nicole! What an ordeal! Glad to hear you are safe and sound and the power is back on. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39209 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:15:55 +0000 Angie 39209@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no!!! You poor, poor people! HECTIC. </p> <p>Thank goodness you're all alright. Sorry about the flooding, Shiny. SUCH A NUISANCE. Glad you have nice neighbours and a fire place, Nicole. Wow. NOT FUN. Why is it that the heat always conks out at the worst possible time. </p> <p>Good luck. Get re-situated and stay warm. We’ll be here waiting for your cheery return. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39208 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:15:44 +0000 Ana 39208@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm so glad you all are okay! :)</p> <p>What an ordeal Nicole and Shiny! It made me happy to read about how you and your neighbors banded together. Looking forward to hearing from you again at the end of the week. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39207 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:10:09 +0000 Nicole 39207@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>HI all! Tanya I can't beleive you did not hear about the storm! Shiny I'm sorry to hear about your flooding! </p> <p>We were hit hard on Thursday night and all day Friday. We lost power on Thursday night and were with out heat/hot water/electric from 10 PM Thurs til 6 PM Saturday. Luckily, we have a fireplace and have great friends and neighbors. One neighbor rented a generator and let us hook into it so we could run our sump pump. Just in time too--our sump pump well was just about ready to spill over. It was very cold, and we had some friends staying with us because they don't have a fireplace. (The fireplace really only kept one room warm, but it kept us all from freezing--since the temps over the entire ordeal were single digits.)</p> <p>I'm spending today cleaning up the house, putting food back in the fridge, doing laundry and offering showers and laundry to friends and family who don't have power restored yet. One of my sisters lives out in the country, and they don't expect to have her area back up for a week or more! They don't even have running water because they have well water. My parents had a bit of a smoke scare last night when they woke up to their house filled with smoke from their woodstove. My husband has spent the weekend running from one friend's house to the next. He figured out a way to hook up a generator to a furnace. So as soon as someone finds a generator, he can hook their heat back up.</p> <p>This is the first time I've ever experienced a long term electricity loss and it sure made me grateful for a lot of things. I was thrilled this morning, to shower and blow dry my hair, put on makeup and wear some pretty clothes for the first time since Thursday!</p> <p>Also, this has brought a lot of people closer together and helped everyone realize the importance of working together and helping our neighbors. You hear horror stories of people being taken advantage of in crisis situations--but that has not been our experience at all. Everyone I've come into contact with has been helpful, or been helped by someone they least expect it.</p> <p>I probably wont be back til later this week though. Mia has a Holiday Piano Recital at a Senior Home this afternoon, they cancelled school for tomorrow, and I still have a ton of stuff to do to get back to normal. Thank you all for being concerned about us. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39204 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:51:53 +0000 Tanya 39204@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so sorry to hear about the flood Shiny. I hope things are under control now.</p> <p>Hopefully Nicole and her family are all fine. I hope she will post here soon.</p> <p>I haven't heard anything on Friday morning. I have been working till very late last week so I have been sleeping very soundly in the mornings. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39201 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:37:21 +0000 shiny 39201@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hee hee... yep, there was a huge ice storm Friday morning, Tanya, but you and I are too far south and closer to the coast, so it didn't affect us. In the north and inland, and up into New Hampshire, many people are still without power this morning. </p> <p>Did you hear the rain early Friday morning? It was coming down very hard, around 6-7 AM. Maybe you were sound asleep! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39200 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:34:31 +0000 Tanya 39200@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ice storm? What ice storm? I seriously wasn't aware of it.</p> <p>I am all OK, thank you very much for asking, no power outage either. I went to a dance last night, and it was freezing outside, but that was about all i have noticed </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39199 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:32:20 +0000 shiny 39199@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>We had more rain than ice where we are, and no power outages. I suspect that Nicole may still be without power, or only just had the power restored this morning. Her area, which is farther north, got hit particularly hard. I keep waiting to see her post so we know she's okay!</p> <p>However, early Friday morning, around 6 am, while we were sleeping, one of our sump pumps died. We're not sure if it was simply overwhelmed with too much water at once, or what. Anyway, we ended up with a flood in the basement (discovered at 8 AM) - including the finished part which the builder promised would never flood (verbally, of course!!). :-(</p> <p>So we've spent the last 48 hours dragging out wet rugs, mopping up water, running industrial fans, doing endless loads of laundry (kids had lots of clothes strewn on the floor, and seasonal clothing stuck in bags under the bed), tossing out wet school papers, and decluttering/reorganizing so that nothing that can't get wet is touching the floors. And visiting YLF frequently whenever the need for a break hit me. :-)</p> <p>On the plus side, we took the opportunity to go through all the kids' clothes and cull out things they've outgrown. Laundered and put into bags and ready to be donated to some teens who may be happy to receive them this winter. I hope my kids are all done growing now! </p> <p>Luckily, the sump pump was easily fixed and the finished part of the basement is designed in just such a way to anticipate potential flooding. We need to keep a close eye on the walls, and one floor may need to be replaced, but a friend of mine who's an expert on these sort of things said that the replacement is merely cosmetic and not to worry about it too much; focus on getting the walls and baseboards bone dry, keeping the dehumidifer and fans running, and keep sniffing around for musty odors. DH will also probably focus on installing yet another sump pump as a back-up measure. </p> <p>We live on the bottom of a hill. We suspect that part of the issue is that they paved the road at the top of the hill about a month ago. So water that used to seep into potholes, is now rushing like a river down the hill towards the houses on our street. Because our neighbors all got flooded too. :-(</p> <p>It ticks me off that the city apparently didn't install any 100-year drains on the road when they repaved it. We once looked into extending the driveway on our property, but decided against it because the city required us to fork over $ for a 100-year drain, which was too costly. And yet, those regulations don't apply to the city when it repaves a street? Makes no sense to me!</p> <p>Anyway, today's agenda is to unpack from the trip, do my laundry, and clean the rest of the house, which hasn't been cleaned in weeks because of work demands and all the traveling. I am gearing up to get the energy to get offline and start cracking on that. Plus we still need to get groceries into the house - the flood deterred us from that mission. And, I was planning to set up the tree tonight, but it may have to wait afterall. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39194 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:34:35 +0000 Angie 39194@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no. I hope we get word soon and that power is restored asap. It's the worst time to be without heat. </p> <p>We had snow last night with more on the way. But it's all under control. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39193 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:28:08 +0000 Maya 39193@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I doubt they'll be able to answer due to power outages, but I hope for the best. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/boston-ylfers-1#post-39192 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:07:51 +0000 Ana 39192@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hey guys, is everyone alright after the ice storm? I just read about it on cnn.com. I hope things are okay. </p>