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I live in an ~1100 square foot rowhome with hot water radiators. To save on utilities, I keep the thermostat at 63 and wear tons of layers in the house. My most recent bill was $140.

$162 last month for two furnaces and the gas stove. 3000sq ft new construction. Wild how much more expensive it can be to heat old homes.

That's a big house, and not much insulation. My 1800 sq ft row with zero insulation costs 50$ without the boiler running. During deep winter coldest months it can go as high as 400.

I lived in an 1100 sq ft house with radiators and a boiler from the 80s until last year, and it was about 150 a month in the winter. I didn't run it 24 hrs. But I kept it at 68-69, so 245 for 15 days seems high. Try to turn it down when you're sleeping or not home. Maybe try bleeding the radiators? 5 years ago I lived in a 700 sq ft house with radiators and 0 insulation, and it was about the same price. I bought those plastic sheets to put over the window to reduce the draft, which worked reasonably well.

There's also plans with PGW to make your bill more consistent throughout the year rather than spikes in the winter. Of course, the downside is you're paying for it in the summer when you're not using it.

I installed some mini split heat exchangers a few years ago and use them instead of the boiler when the temp stays over 35-40 overnight. It cut my gas bill dramatically and I don't have to mess with window ACs in the summer

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Gotta pay the Troll Toll to get in the drinking hole

Um have you checked the city government tenures over the last century. I... Haven't looked at incumbent retention, but it appears- facile

Orange Trail almost directly below the Toleration Statue. Best accessed via Kitchen’s lane entrance or Hortter St off of Park Line drive.

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Hi op - which specific trail is this?

You remember correctly.

Don't feel like a dick. The signage is spotty and confusing at best, and often misleading or outright nonexistent. I regularly refer to my Gaia app while riding because there's no other way to know which trail I'm supposed to be on.

Oh yeah. During COVID shutdowns, like many of us, the Wissahickon became a refuge, a place of peace and normalcy. Knowing the trails like the creases on our palms.

Agreed. Beer is awesome.

I'm well aware, as I said, once it was 'dismissed', it seemed to disappear off those sites a few weeks later.

Here's a link to both the video of it happening (I drive a stick, which they couldn't drive, they later jacked the uber blocks away in the nbc10 article), the docket # sheet with all the charges (page 3) and showing dismissed in Page 4. I took the suspect name off the documents out of courtesy. You can see the docket # if you wanna do your own research.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lS9rp8HlCs_Fyolwkx6OXXS7WW7mzIA9?usp=sharing

I had exactly the same though. I went left by accident once, and first thought "This tube is kind of dangerous on a bicycle" before coming across another trail fork where I spotted a "no bikes" sign.

I turned back and felt like a dick all the way back to the MTB trail.

Hah! I thought it was that spot.

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My cousin will give us a royal welcome

Yo that’s the Toll, it was one of our drinking spots in high school

LOE. Lack of evidence. The surveillance video of it & basically showing their faces, I was told, likely wouldn't get submitted for a 'preliminary' hearing. No clothes were brought/shown they were wearing the night of, the gun was reported to have been recovered (i think in the news article), wasn't brought or fingerprints etc.

I got to face the one (other was 17 & juvey court), which helped bring closure. His Mom & family (sisters?) were there, so it brought closure to do it & speak. I wasn't angry or hateful, some old 1950s redneck down south saying hang em or anything. Honestly, I knew going in they'd either make an example out of em, and throw the book at them to prove they're 'tough on crime' (since they caught them), or it'd just get lost in the machine.

ADA was in touch with me alot (looking back its probably done more in a grief couselor role), but the night before I got a call at 8:30 from a Texas phone number, and the guy had a major Texas accent, whoa.. I thought, did they just fly in some big time lawyer for this?! He asked me a few basic questions about the night, and whats gonna happen in the courtroom (roll call, cattle call of cases etc). Then, once I got there, I just knew I was one of about 30 other cases in that courtroom alone, just a cog in the machine.

Ah. I haven’t rode the Wiss in a couple years now. If I remember correctly the trail after this pass and concrete tube it splits to a no bike trail. It’s been a minute though.