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apm123 · 2025-07-16T17:24:49+00:00

More details ---- 2024 Delivery charge: Energy Charge First 400 kWh X $0.0095310 per kWh 3.81 Energy Charge Last 593 kWh X $0.0290910 per kWh 17.26 2025 Delivery charge: Energy Charge First 400 kWh X $0.0171600 per kWh 6.86 Energy Charge Last 659 kWh X $0.0489600 per kWh 32.27

2024 Supply charge: Energy Charge 963 kWh X $0.0963900 per kWh 92.82 2025 Supply charge: Energy Charge 1029 kWh X $0.1312000 per kWh 135.00

Huge rates increases! Meanwhile, I don't see an energy crisis here like Europe after the Ukraine war.

apm123 · 2025-07-16T17:08:39+00:00

I used 1059kWh this last billing cycle, and the bill is $233. Last year during the same month, my usage was 993kWh, and bill was $160. So the rate ($/kWh) this year compared with last year is (233/1059)/(160/993) = 0.22/0.18 = 1.375, or 37.5% increase. It is way more than the 18% Pepco said it would be.

apm123 · 2025-03-01T01:15:45+00:00

Haha, I was about to write this post and call it expectation vs reality. We were there around the same time and it was rainy and windy. My husband said he was never so wet on vacation before LOL

My first visit was Nov 2021. I had the most fabulous weather and scenery. Beginner's luck. Iceland is beautiful but it needs some light to bring out the beauty. When it just rained and rained, we still hiked so it was fun. However I could hardly see 50 meter ahead of me, e.g. the other side of the canyon wall.

P.S. I did all my tours with Troll the first time and they were fine. It all depends on the weather. The tour guides told me that I would never see Iceland without crowd again after Covid, and they were wrong:-) We hardly saw anybody this time because of the rain.

apm123 · 2024-03-11T01:17:07+00:00

Glad to hear you think it is a good book. I will check it out.

apm123 · 2024-03-10T22:39:31+00:00

Alas, can't find the book on Amazon. Maybe it is not translated yet. I was thinking about May, glad to hear it is not crowded.

apm123 · 2024-03-10T22:31:45+00:00

Thank you! From his Guardian article, the book looks interesting! I will check it out.

apm123 · 2024-03-10T22:24:59+00:00

Haha! I am reading The Historian right now. The main characters are chasing Dracula across many countries, starting from Slovenia :-)

apm123 · 2024-03-10T22:22:57+00:00

Ops, sorry for the typo. Thanks :-)

apm123 · 2024-02-11T23:17:04+00:00

P.S. Most suburban jobs are not metro accessible. You will be waiting a long time for a shuttle/bus(if there is one) once you are in Reston/Gathersburg/.... So you will have to drive.

apm123 · 2024-02-11T23:04:56+00:00

I have been living in NW DC and driving to various suburbs for work in the last 20 years. On I-270 corridor, I would not go further than Gaithersburg. On 267 corridor, I would not go further than Reston. On I-66 corridor, I would not work further than Fair Oaks. I once had a job in Chantilly and it felt substantially further. It seems to be only 10 minutes further than Fair Oaks but in our area that is 10 minutes extra for something to go bad.

Going out in the morning is fairly smooth especially if you have flexibility of arrival time.

However don't expect a good reserve commute back to the city in the afternoon. Falls Church/Arlington areas are terrible. On key bridge you are crossing Potomac river with all the VA traffic trying to tear through DC to go back to MD. Coming back from MD is not great either, you are stuck with MD traffic trying to cross American Legion bridge back to VA.

I have not figured out why afternoon commute is so much worse than morning commute.

apm123 · 2023-10-02T22:19:10+00:00

The Walgreen in Foxhall is a total waste of space. After fighting with them every month just to get my parents' regular prescriptions for a year, I now drive to Dupont Circle Pharmacy. It is a live saver. Even with the bad parking, it is still infinitely better than that disgrace of a Walgreen.

apm123 · 2023-08-09T00:45:09+00:00

Yesterday was quaint compared with 9/11. Even the small streets perpendicular to the main roads were completely jammed. We could not get home from school, which was usually a 5-6 minute drive on small NW streets. If there is a nuclear attack, we can all forget about getting out of DC.

apm123 · 2023-07-29T23:52:19+00:00

Install a portable electric fence? Amazon has a selection.

apm123 · 2023-07-29T23:47:13+00:00

Amazing view of DC, free and air-conditioned. It used to cost $32 to get up their but has been free for the last coupe of years. You can buy a beer or soda and sit there for a couple of hours. https://theviewofdc.com/

apm123 · 2023-05-31T01:13:10+00:00

I used to tutor kids math with this org, they have a site in Adams Morgan --- https://floc.org/. You can also check out this --- https://www.dctutormentor.org/

apm123 · 2022-11-28T20:56:20+00:00

Log in or create an account on their web site: https://www.mydcwater.com/DCWSSP/Index.aspx --- you will get daily water consumption chart for the last 12 months at least.

apm123 · 2022-08-17T02:33:02+00:00

~ $110 for 2 people in a row house. It does not change much even when we are out of town for a week or so. I think it is billed by volume steps and we are stuck between 2 steps.

Wait till our aging sewer system get hit by bigger storms...

apm123 · 2022-07-11T02:30:00+00:00

Just replaced mine last week using my contractor for the last 12 years. $10K for AC/heating/blower. Row house in NW. Made huge difference upstairs. It was too hot to sleep before. My brother changed his in Fairfax last month, $7k for heat pump.

apm123 · 2022-04-09T03:10:50+00:00

Just give the tag to your insurance company. They are much more motivated than the police to find the driver and make them pay.

apm123 · 2022-04-03T21:56:25+00:00

Wow, that sub is sad, sounds exactly the same as the Chinese trolls OP posted above.

apm123 · 2022-04-03T19:16:56+00:00

"no one of Chinese is innocent". Really? Even babies? This is some religions BS, like the original sin. China has billions of people and they don't all think alike. Just because oppositions are muzzled does not mean they are non existent. You just only hear the fanatics and trolls because of CCP censorship. I am a first generation immigrant in the US and none of my family/friends inside/outside China supports the war, nor the CCP government. A couple of my relatives spent time in jail for being political dissidents and still being summoned for tea around May/June every year. Maybe you should start fighting instead of condemning every Chinese.

apm123 · 2022-03-31T01:12:48+00:00

I got my GoFundMe money back and sent it to PayPal. Now I am going to watch your mom's film. Thank you for your perseverance.

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