2020-21 Winter weather; bring it on

[Francisco 2.0 32342]

7 minutes ago, The University said:

kansas?

Oklahoma.

[Message Board User 12389]

3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

My wife is fine with it in the mid060s during the day, but prefers 70 and a thick quilt and light nightgown at night.

Strange - this married girl I'm banging has the exact same temperature preferences.  What a coincidence.  

[atomheartbevo 89449]

11 minutes ago, drt said:

Belongs in the holy shit thread

Got that cold a few times when I was a kid in North Dakota.  Those animals are smart enough to eat snow for water, and to brush the snow out of the way for the grass.

The scary thing is, that as cold as it was, we only lost power once or twice in two years during the winter, but the reservations down the highway from us, half those people didn't have decent electricity/running water when the weather was decent.

[Armybrat 40744]

[Bevo&Pevo 5031]

5 minutes ago, Message Board User said:

Strange - this married girl I'm banging has the exact same temperature preferences.  What a coincidence.  

how strange.

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2630]

24 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

Uh I could use a repeat. 

Do you shut it off and open the door?

I just made room in my main fridge by tossing some frozen berries and shit.   We are still above freezing so just opening garage fridge wont work.  
 

if you dont have room, maybe you could out a cooler outside? 
 

 

Edited February 15, 2021 by Xian

[Wally Pryor 5244]

Spence just pimped the Boy Toy with credit on predicting the Winter Invasion two months ago.

[Jersey Man10 3508]

Hmm. Well I just turned it down to 72.  72 isnt that outrageous when married to a tropical island wife 

Humblebrag.

[crimsonlonghorn 2306]

56 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

Also, holy fuk, those keeping your heater in the 70s.  My wife keeps ours at 68 and I'll sneak it down to 65 when she's not looking.   Im fine in warm ups and a flannel shirt.  I was actually sweating under the blankets last night.  

Same. I’d die if it were that hot in my house. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Pisses me off that we are going to get rolling blackouts, and maybe lose pipes as a result, while half empty strip malls, car dealerships, big box stores, etc. are still fully lit up, inside and out, even well past closing.

[gsoda3 3236]

Stood on my retaining wall and relieved myself. I'm referring to my house as castle black for the next few days.

[Radical Larry 28529]

 

[NorthLoop 14093]

Went with 2 washcloths zip-tied over the faucets, then covered with a regular foam cover. Then wrapped in a mid sized towel with duct tape. All covered by a plastic flower pot. Every inside faucet is dripping. 

We'll see I guess. 

[jimmyjazz 45560]

43 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

If they are LED, they won't do shit.

Well, they'll illuminate the ice geyser with lovely neon colors.

[jimmyjazz 45560]

NM

Edited February 15, 2021 by jimmyjazz

[Bevo 13527]

14 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

 

balls

[Anastasis 23394]

16 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

 

[Wally Pryor 5244]

Just now, Anastasis said:

Holy shit.

[Biff Tannen 45499]

18 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Went with 2 washcloths zip-tied over the faucets, then covered with a regular foam cover. Then wrapped in a mid sized towel with duct tape. All covered by a plastic flower pot. Every inside faucet is dripping. 

We'll see I guess. 

Lol. I mean, if that doesn’t work, fuck us all. 

[Constant 6722]

Starting my 21 mile trek to work. If I see a tauntaun or an AT-AT, I’m turning the fuck around. 

[Wally Pryor 5244]

Fixing to get real.

More real.

[Gardner Barnes 1562]

I ain't wearing no fucking mask and I ain't setting my thermostat below 70 because I am a southern gentleman who takes care of my neighbors.
 
Actually, we're running at 64 right now and we're gonna keep it there to do our part.  Hand washed all dinner dishes just now and ain't doing laundry tomorrow.  It's what men do to take care of those in their community but that's lost on most "Texans" these days.  Using mostly the outdoor grill and the inside gas stove to cook to avoid using the oven but maybe once every two days for one family meal.  

Pussy

[NorthLoop 14093]

Radar looking intense in the last hour 

[Homercles 10205]

8 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Lol. I mean, if that doesn’t work, fuck us all. 

I said fuck it and just built a second house for my spigots 

[Biff Tannen 45499]

God dammit.  I'm supposedly working tomorrow, but not sure how much sleep I'm gonna get worrying about pipes.

[Telegraph_it 3354]

I have the upstairs at 76 which means the bedrooms are 72-73. I got two kiddos under 2 that don’t sleep with blankets. Sorry ercot. 
 

I am impressed my house is keeping up for now. 

[Wally Pryor 5244]

If this clearing line does get to us by 3 - 4A we'll see a low of 6 to 8.

[freyguy 4245]

No matter how drunk one (me) must be....10 degrees is cold as fuck.

[Izhmash 558]

Did anyone else just turn off their water entirely? I purged all of our lines, but now I'm not sure where the family is gonna take a shit. LOL.

[Stunns38 3357]

Anything less than 70 degrees with an electric heat pump is cold.

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2630]

1 minute ago, Izhmash said:

Did anyone else just turn off their water entirely? I purged all of our lines, but now I'm not sure where the family is gonna take a shit. LOL.

Lol you need to fill up the tubs first. So you have water to flush 

[washparkhorn 9935]

21 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

God dammit.  I'm supposedly working tomorrow, but not sure how much sleep I'm gonna get worrying about pipes.

Authentic Frontier Gibberish:

The snow calm yer down. Road noise goes away. It get peaceful as Jack Frost does his dasturdly deeds. 

[hookemATL 11611]

Team drip the outdoor faucets still holding it down. No freezes of the flow over the past 10+ hours. Pencil sized flow of water on both. 
 

will check again at midnight / 2 am bc I’ve had entirely too much coffee today and won’t be sleeping well either way. 

[atomheartbevo 89449]

31 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Radar looking intense in the last hour 

We can take the snow and build igloos around our covered up faucets, to provide more protection!

[Post Oak 20187]

Power just went out in Hewitt.  12 with a real feel of -11.  Gonna suck

[Royal With Cheese 3]

Just now, Post Oak said:

Power just went out in Hewitt.  12 with a real feel of -11.  Gonna suck

Hang in there brother.

[washparkhorn 9935]

10 minutes ago, freyguy said:

No matter how drunk one (me) must be....10 degrees is cold as fuck.

Amen.

Stay in the cave. 

[Wally Pryor 5244]

3 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Team drip the outdoor faucets still holding it down. No freezes of the flow over the past 10+ hours. Pencil sized flow of water on both. 

 

Same boat.  

We may skate on the excess later this week but fine by me if the flow stays good.

[Both Tacos 1805]

Let's do this!!!!!

Stopped in Dalhart overnight on the way to Angel Fire, NM.
Got damn its cold....

[Bevo&Pevo 5031]

[atomheartbevo 89449]

6 minutes ago, Izhmash said:

Did anyone else just turn off their water entirely? I purged all of our lines, but now I'm not sure where the family is gonna take a shit. LOL.

I would have liked to, and seriously discussed it with a neighbor (our meters are next to each other).  It took both of us getting the cover off yesterday, thought the fucking thing was welded or something, and of course it was not pretty inside.  Our first thought was that there was leak and shit was froze up making it hard to get the cover off.

Anyways, I wish I had.  We have a large bathtub.  We have plenty of jugs of water, as well as various containers.

Yeah, really wishing I had.

[atomheartbevo 89449]

3 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Power just went out in Hewitt.  12 with a real feel of -11.  Gonna suck

If we lose power for more than two hours, I'm hopping on Team TEAR THE COVERING OFF OF THE OUTDOOR FAUCETS AND RUN THEM PRETTY HARD really fucking fast.

[clapclapclap 9000]

11 minutes ago, Izhmash said:

Did anyone else just turn off their water entirely? I purged all of our lines, but now I'm not sure where the family is gonna take a shit. LOL.

Do you have any neighbors with porches?

[Paper_jam 831]

The temperature in my unheated but attached garage is right about 39 degrees now, I've never seen it this low. I have a hose spigot on the outside wall of the garage and the warmth of the garage interior is the only thing keeping it from freezing (it's wrapped and covered, but still).  If the garage gets much colder I'm thinking of propping the house-->garage door open and blowing some warm house air in there. It would be an energy efficiency holocaust, though, to try to treat the garage as conditioned/heated space...

 

 

[Guest Lobo]

32 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

I have the upstairs at 76 which means the bedrooms are 72-73. I got two kiddos under 2 that don’t sleep with blankets. Sorry ercot. 
 

I am impressed my house is keeping up for now. 

76 degrees?  I wish you the best through menopause, good sir. 

[NorthLoop 14093]

All you people running your outside faucets, where is the water going? Just making a giant ice sheet in the yard?

[washparkhorn 9935]

Pencil size stream is not team drip. That's team flow. 

[Izhmash 558]

4 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Do you have any neighbors with porches?

Told my son we're gonna go outside with the dogs. He laughed and said "Mom's gonna hate picking up poop next week".

[atomheartbevo 89449]

4 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

The temperature in my unheated but attached garage is right about 39 degrees now, I've never seen it this low. I have a hose spigot on the outside wall of the garage and the warmth of the garage interior is the only thing keeping it from freezing (it's wrapped and covered, but still).  If the garage gets much colder I'm thinking of propping the house-->garage door open and blowing some warm house air in there. It would be an energy efficiency holocaust, though, to try to treat the garage as conditioned/heated space...

Had a friend post on Facebook with a similar issue.  He had a bunch of cardboard boxes in the garage from various Amazon purchases.  He used them to make a funnel of sorts from his hours/garage door to where the outside faucet is, and also used cardboard to make a barrier for the door (minus a space cut out for his tunnel of boxes).

[jimmyjazz 45560]

12 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Team drip the outdoor faucets still holding it down. No freezes of the flow over the past 10+ hours. Pencil sized flow of water on both. 
 

will check again at midnight / 2 am bc I’ve had entirely too much coffee today and won’t be sleeping well either way. 

I knew my drip had failed last night and I spent the whole time just tossing and turning.  Horrible night's sleep, even though I knew it wasn't yet cold enough to be a big problem.  Ran a power cord this morning and took a hair dryer to both spigots, and voila (wallah!) flow ensued.

Now I'm obsessed with making sure it doesn't freeze again.  I'll be trudging around my yard every 2-3 hours for sure.  If anyone hears tomorrow about a dude who slipped and cracked his skull open, subsequently freezing to death, that will be me.