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David G

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It looks like we are just in the cold and north of the forecasted weather issues. We do not necessarily like the cold, but we are equipped to handle it. I wish you down south prayers and good wishes for safety in the upcoming week.
 
Thank you David. I happen to have a home built on a concrete slab doesn't mean a whole lot. Not much here is built for freezing weather. Even the way the water spouts coming out the brick is a poor design. Although they sell stirofoam boots to place over spout. And as you must have seen in your travels.... Many homes, even fairly new are built off the ground 1-3 feet to save cost. Just think how many of those pipes will burst if not plumped with pix piping. Plumbers will do well in the upcoming weeks. Wingnut
 
This is almost unprecedented weather for my location in SE La.
Our record all time low is 7 degrees.
Our record low for February is 13 degrees.
They are predicting 15 degrees for Monday night.
Hopefully the ice storm will say just west and north of me like predicted.

Another thing is we usually get cold for a night or two then back to normal.
We are suppose to be below freezing for 5 of the next 6 nights with pipe breaking temperatures 4 of those nights.
Been 24 months since I had to worry about my water pipes and now we will have 4 of 6 nights in the next week.
At least we will be above 32 everyday so any minor freezing will thaw during the day before it gets cold again.

New Orleans that is protected by a large lake to its north will only have one freezing night on Monday when it is expected to get down to 25.
 
I have frost sleeves on all my underground electrical where it attaches on the buildings so it can move up and down without tearing up anything. All outside water is down 8 feet, so very comfortable I am safe. We are north of most freezing rain, so it is unusual here, but I have backup gensets. I usually keep at least 400 gallons of propane in buried tank, my vaporizer on the tank is below ground level. I have not put the heaters on my genset yet, so that and cathodic protection on my propane tank are my only vulnerabilities.

I build infrastructure for industrial and IT facilities that cannot go offline, so it comes natural to me.
 

We have only two guys for ice and snow treatment.. Mr wind, and Mr Sun.... And both are off till Tuesday I am told.

We have been below freezing for around 30 hours now. Probably gonna have to call out the national guard, but they can move either as the roads are iced up. Last time it did this was 1985 down here in So Tx..Had a fox get into the chicken coop, not to eat the chickens, but to bundle up with them.
 
Well alcohol does impair one's judgement as does the desire to have something warm in your bed. Double whammy for the hypothermia and frostbite twins!
 
Had to chop ice & haul water to the troughs for the cattle. Took 2 coolers of hot water & poured on 1 of the floats and it began to run. Trees & ground are covered with ice. Wind is starting to pick up, lots of things are going to break. Fired up the wood stove and the heater hasn’t turned on in 5 hours. It’s 27* with 94% humidity and 14 mph north wind. Definitely not SE Texas weather.
 
Ugh, ice in central VA. Would rather have a little more cold and get snow, much easier to deal with. Had 5 inches of snow a few days ago, all the roads clear by noon. ICE, roads are OK now, but lots of trees down and power is out all over the place.
 
Yea, I wasn't prepared for it. I had to take off work a couple days and get in some food and firewood. It's 14 degrees here in North Texas and falling today. Have had a little snow but not much. I don't think the weather has been this bad since the 1980's.
 
I wasnt quite prepared for 0° in morning on the Jones/Taylor Co line in Texas. Have plenty of wood, water froze mid morn but had ran some up to get by.
 
Many thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
We are in the mid 30s down here and holding. Predicting mid 20s tomorrow morning and Tuesday morning.
Outdoor water pipes and pump are turned off and drained. Tender plants are covered.
Tractor has 50/50 antifreeze. Pipes in attic are insulated.
We've been through this before and prepare as usual.
 
Can still remember when I was a little shaver watching national weatherman Willard Scott give out the forecast one cold Janaury or February morning "and now heres something Ive always wanted to say....its 2 below in Tupelo"!
 
I did not want to look at it, there are quite a few direct burials here.

In retrospect I do not worry about it freezing up.
 
Freezing rain here in central MS. may get to use the 20 KW Kohler generator I had installed last Nov, this week. Outside faucets wrapped and covered--they come out of ground-not on side of house. Pipes under house are insulated with foam wrap but will let some drip anyway. Vents around foundation are closed also, so I should be in good shape. Have plenty of food in freezer and canned. At least our second nnalert shot was postponed until Sat. so we won't have to drive on icy roads.
 

Have to wonder why homes are not built with basements as they also serve as storm shelters . Plus basements are the places for the washer/dryer, furnace , well pump/tank, freezer, barn clothes change area etc .
 
Billy C, sounds like we are in the same neighborhood. I’m close to Houston, just south of Tupelo. Have been getting sleet and freezing rain here for a few hours now. Everything covered including the roads. Still have power but have the generator ready and plenty to eat.
 
Were at 7 degrees here in North Texas with 4 of snow. We get below freezing several times a year, and are set up to handle 18-24 hours of below freezing, but this single digit and 8 day duration will damage a lot of plumbing, and stress the natural gas and electric grid. I have a hose dribbling to keep my water going.
 
I'm well aware of where Houston is. I'm about 10 miles south of I-20 off hiway 35, I grew up in Webster co. and usually attend the Flywheel Festival in April but of course it was cancelled last year and probably will be this year. I also had two aunts that lived in Houston for years. One was the Home Demonstration agent or whatever they were called back then.
 

So I wonder which would be their first choice, freezing weather or a hurricane?
 

We just place drain tile in the drainage stone under the floor , under the walls and out past the walls . Then pour a solid basement floor and foundation walls . Gravity flows the ground water to a nearby ditch .
Could
Not imagine any building where the water table is only a few feet from the surface .
 
GF's daughter said her vehicle was making a noise that sounded like two balloons rubbing together. After a little while I realized that as cold as it is, is was probably the tires squeaking on the hard packed snow. When it gets cold the snow gets louder when you compress it.
 
Gravity flows the ground water to a nearby ditch.

That is great if you live on a hill.
I live on land so flat you can see for miles if it were not for the trees.

And our water table is high.
I grew up in a house with ground so soft and water table so high the house needs pilings under the slab to keep it from sinking.
 
We just heard from a meteorologist in Austin Texas that Wichita Falls Texas has 30" of snow in downtown! And Brownsville (clear in the south of Texas) is looking at 16 degrees wind chill. Worst weather in 125 years. Climate Change, no longer called Global Warming.
 
(quoted from post at 20:27:24 02/14/21) Were at 7 degrees here in North Texas with 4 of snow. We get below freezing several times a year, and are set up to handle 18-24 hours of below freezing, but this single digit and 8 day duration will damage a lot of plumbing, and stress the natural gas and electric grid. I have a hose dribbling to keep my water going.
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If you are going to keep a tap dribbling do it into the bathtub.

If and when the power goes out so do well pumps, the water in the tub can be transferred with a bucket into the upper toilet tank, lets you have a number two without having to visit a snowbank and can also be used for washing.
 
(quoted from post at 03:57:54 02/15/21) Given freezing weather or a hurricane most would chose a hurricane.
We know how to prepare for and deal with a hurricane.
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Being my first 40 years were in southwest Michigan, I would prefer sub freezing weather over a damaging hurricane.
 
In New Orleans, being below sea level, they bury the dead on top of the ground. Your Northern basements are ideal for keeping pipes from freezing if the
house isn't built on a concrete slab type foundation. I'll give you that for sure.
 
My Grand daddy hand dug his well lin Genoa, Tx. between Houston and Galveston. 25' and he had a reliable supply of cool clear water. Had to pay attention to septic systems and ditches ensuring they went in other directions.
 
Main reason is it doesn't get cold enough to have to put all the heat and plumbing (and fuel) underground. Another reason, in coastal areas is the water
table. Sealing would have to be a one piece concrete pour, like they do storm shelters. Next we use natural gas not coal so it gets piped in if urban and
rural use Propane tank storage. Course like I mentioned here earlier, in times like this, they are nice to have.
 
I just checked the Propane chart yesterday. You have 25# static pressure at 0F with a regulator output of 6 so there is plenty of room there. I was at 7F when I got up this morning and my Propane stoves were just humming along.. Vapor pressure is down to -40. Butane has to be buried and is probably one of the reason Propane became popular....when I was growing up, Butane was the option to natural gas for rural folks.
 

Turning warmer here this week and supposed to be above freezing a week from today .on the east coast of Lake Huron .
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