Of course crazy thing - SD played in Miami week before in 76 degree weather which is still the greatest NFL game I have ever seen on TV
4:45am eta now. my pipes are gonna be fucked. absurd to take this long to get a crew out to fix power with people in single digit temps
I was at that Super Bowl. Opposite end of the field from Pete Johnson slamming into Hacksaw Reynolds on the goal line, but that impact was clearly visible that far away. Iconic play, will never forget that. Got tickets for my birthday the morning of the game.
“Seiches happen when strong winds & rapid atmospheric pressure changes push water from one end of a body of water to the other. When the wind stops, water rebounds to the other side of the enclosed area. The water can continue to oscillate back and forth for hours or even days!”
Hot water pipes I guess are frozen. The cold water is still running but hot isn’t. Kind of surprises me. My house has a crawspace so i get terrified of frozen pipes everytime it gets this cold which is once every two year.
Yeah. My out water heater sits in an outside closet for some reason. I checked under the house and don’t see a leak or anything. I moved a safety heater to the hot water heater closest and it’s starting to drip but weird. I’ve dripped like 3 faucets with both hot and cold so I don’t understand how it happened.
That happened to me before we insulated our house. The pipes to the upstairs bathroom went up through the pantry. Took an hour with the hair dryer and lots of warm towels out of the dryer to thaw.
The fun part for me, we don’t have any access to the pipes to that bathroom. I guess they run up through the wall in our garage and it got down below freezing in there last night.
We left yesterday and 55 South from Joliet to Bloomington was constant patches of white out but only saw one semi fucked up north of the Kankakee River bridge
new power repair estimate is 9am it shouldn’t take this long to tape together a few lines and flip a couple switches smdh
You should start trying to thaw those pipes out now. Hair dryer works well, I also would throw towels in the dryer and wrap the pipes once they were hot. Once thawed keep your faucet on to make sure they don’t refreeze. edit - yes turn off your water
-3° Here in NE Pennsylvania this morning. At least the winds have calmed down. My son left Buffalo this morning to come down for Christmas, the roads were passable even if the highways were closed. NYSP and DOT swing gates across the on ramps. Half an hour south, things were in better shape. Basically, Buffalo east to Rochester is closed.
was supposed to be drinking wassail and caroling like in the movies but now i have to traverse my crawl space with a hair dryer?
Yep, App State / Boone is 9 miles north of me. Whole area is gorgeous for sure, but the weather this time of year is nuts.
We had our hot water pipe to the kitchen sink freeze last winter. The part of our kitchen that has the sink sits in a bay space with the bottom enclosed but above ground outside of the house. Stupid ass home builder had crammed the joist cavity full of insulation (thereby destroying the insulative value). Once I pulled the insulation out and exposed the joist cavity to the warm air in the basement it thawed in about an hour on it’s own.
Went there about a year and a half ago, very beautiful. Watched some of the Highland Games which sadly had way too many white nationalists and very Trumpy elements to it now.
Explain like I’m the dumbest person you know why my downstairs heat doesn’t work but upstairs does and if there is anything I can do about it two units with crawl space but it’s 45 degrees down but 64 upstairs we have to go to my in laws since we have a newborn and Im the worst at fixing things
i am stuck in my grandma’s 1000 sqft townhome with three kids under four. i am thankful for the heat but i just went into the kitchen as my 4 year old and 16 month old were spraying windex at each other so the freezing to death sounds preferable right now
I’m at my parents house doing a Christmas. Hopefully it’s working when I get back. I don’t even know how to find a frozen pipes to my crawlspace but I’m prepared to replace my polybutylene pipes in my crawl space with pex. I’m not gonna just crawl space looking for frozen section of pipe. My house is missing half the vinyl flooring and I just have plywood down. The crawl space is actually warm. Don’t see how anything thing froze but I’m thinking it’s the pipe directly to the hot water heater.
If you don’t have a circ pump then the water in your hot water pipes is gonna be the same temp as the water in your cold water pipes if they haven’t been run for awhile. Plus sometimes the hot water pipes are of a smaller diameter which would allow them to freeze quicker. Why many people ITT instruct anyone worried about frozen pipes to put a drip on.
Not going to fight an Alaskan, but disagree on green lighting full blast heat on frozen windshields. To the homies, even full blast comprehensive often doesn't cover glass. Windows get into 4 figures fast. Ambient air, then defrost.
Damn which sketchy insurance companies don’t cover glass as part of comprehensive? It has always been covered for me. USAA for the win I guess. Thanks FIL for serving in the Arkansas Nat’l Guard to pay for college
yeah thats not true unless that windshield is already cracked. it takes time to heat up your defroster, your not just instantly blasting hot air on a frozen windshield. I've warmed my truck up with full blast deforoster regularly in -20s to -30s before windshield and they've never cracked or broken.
I was wondering how the board would handle this. This isn't directed at you. More towards a rando I read elsewhere. Those homeboys and working their ass off, if conditions more horrid than the one you were facing. You have blankets and the comfort of your home. Those guys are in the wind, the cold, they aren't home. It was Christmas Eve, Christmas day. They didn't make the trees fall, and they can't be everywhere. Maybe your power was out for hours. Maybe a couple days. Why? Not for fun. Trees fell on wires, ripped poles out. How would you fix that? How? Go fix it. But the slightest, inconvenience to comfort is a reason to bitch and moan. Our comfort is fragile. And requires real shit. To wail like a banshee, and then piss and moan when people are working their ass off to fix it for you with not only less than appreciation, but expectant instantaneous response? Shit.
Ok? Not trying to make this a my cold is worse than yours. If/when it happens, which it did for me, sucks. It was a warning to the homies that never deal with this shit. Because when it happens, it sucks. And it's a simple warning.