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“…People still say that cold comes into their houses… they would say ‘the cold is coming in and chilling the radiators upstairs on the northwest side so rapidly that we can’t keep any heat in.’ I’d go up and the radiators were cold. I went aroun the front of the building and even with a fairly good wind on that northwest side, it was almost still air; it was just the ideal place to light your cigarette. I had learned in the Navy that when we wanted to light a cigarette on board ship, you would go up in front of the nearest housing to discover almost still air. If you followed the radiator pipes down through the wal’ and floors you found that they were cold all the way down to the cellar. In fact no heat was going up on the northwest side, and the pipes going to the southeast side were very hot, even when you shut off the valves. The heat seemed to be working toward the lee side and creating high pressure there to satisfv the low pressure. The balancing between high pressure and low pressure was using up all your fuel. 've cha ged the pipes around from the furnace down in the cellar so that the pipes that started northwest were turned around and led southeast, but the heat still went out into the lee side so it was very clear that the chain of”
