Doing this as we speak. Making chili, with some chiles, because it’s chilly!
It’s so cold the buses are frozen next to Jeff Bezos’s balls
This city is full of nerds with too much tech
LeeAbe
5166
Please please please clear up by Tuesday Morning. I have to go downtown at 6 am (work) and I don’t want to deal with that crap. Never had to go downtown after a snow storm, do they keep the roads clear? I think we are supposed to get ice rain Monday night, so it will probably be bad.
What a great weekend though. I love snow when I don’t have to be anywhere. So quiet and pretty all day. Went out for a long walk in the snow when no one was out. One hell of a workout too. Then basically cooked and ate shit food all day.
Meanwhile, here in the southeast, we are in the middle of Ten Consecutive Days of Rain ™, which seems like more of an April festival thing than Feb.
Enidigm
5168
Texas has declared the entire state a disaster area. Overnight lows expected to be around 0-12d F
RichVR
5170
He did it before the storm even happened. A few days ago I think.
lostcawz
5171
Ft Worth-ian here. It’s cold as balls and gonna be for at least 4 more days. 6” snow and it’s still going. Water dripping in all the faucets. But I have an outdoor spigot that is outside a garage wall. So minimal way to keep it warm with inside heat. And my fridges water just stopped. It’s a small pipe on and outside wall that has no other water outlets either inside or out. Not sure how we could have done anything different.
The house is only a year old so all the piping is plastic/rubber or whatever. I don’t recall seeing any copper anywhere. So I’m hoping the newer stuff will handle the freezing better than something old would.
At least I can work from home along with the wife and kids doing remote schooling this week. So long as we don’t get rolling blackouts that is. 😶
RichVR
5172
Good luck, cawz. Hopeful that your pipes can handle the stress.
At this point just stay attentive, and make sure you know where the cutoff valves are and that they work.
I would cutoff the outdoor spigot and disconnect the hose from it if attached. Then open the spigot. Hopefully, any water that freezes just expands out the valve.
No idea on the fridge water feed. Is there a risk to the fridge itself?
You may want to run some hot water down the drains for a while as well to try to keep them from freezing. Drips are good for the pressurized pipes, but the drains need attention too.
Oh. No hoses attached to my outdoor spigots and they all have covers. It’s just that one is on the outside of a garage so it doesn’t get any real indoor heating like the one that is outside out main bath that gets as much indoor heat as it can.
I already turned off the water to the fridge. It’s just a small tube like maybe a half an inch diameter at most. And I’m pretty sure it’s the newer flexible tubing as I don’t recall much if any copper or any metal plumbing from seeing the houses go up back when they built this development. So I’m hoping it’ll handle the freezing for a few days. Not really much I can do about it I don’t think.
If you’ve got a new home they likely used Pex to run your plumbing. If that’s the case you should be fine even if your pipes freeze (key word is should). It might damage the spigot on the unheated garage side, but if its a good quality you should be okay there, too.
By the way, if the spigot is already frozen don’t try to open it or you might damage the spindle. If it’s easy to turn, go ahead - but if you try to open the valve and it seems stuck, leave it alone. If you’re really worried about it, you might try pouring hot water on it to see if you can “unfreeze” it, or perhaps use a hair dryer on it (don’t use a heat gun, it’ll get too hot). If it’s a brass spigot a few glasses of hot water should be sufficient to melt the ice enough to get the valve to turn easily. Realistically, though, if the valve is already frozen then opening it now won’t help. If it was me, I’d leave it alone but keep an eye on it.
Going forward, maybe put a small space heater inside the garage near the wall where the spigot is located. It won’t keep the space warm, but all you need is 33 degrees, right?
Alstein
5177
Hearing Texas is so bad now they’re doing rolling blackouts to reduce demand.
As for here, we had our worst ice storm in about 5 years, the rain was just cold enough to be freezing rain. Enough to knock out the power lines but not the roads thankfully. 10 miles north was bad enough for both.
More rain and some of it frozen expected this week.
We somehow managed to get thunderstorm with freezing rain Friday.
Demolira
5178
Can confirm that we’ve got rolling blackouts.
It’s in the single digits here in Austin, which is crazy, and they’ve issues the first ever wind chill warning.
Haavok1
5179
Work at the Ford plant in Kansas City. Cancelled work for the week because of the cold. First time in my 25 years I have ever seen that happen. They were going to get fined for their use of too much natural gas because levels were getting low for residents
I’m glad the gas company is managing that. I showed up to work like normal this morning, the roads weren’t bad in Kansas City despite the deep cold. And a surprising amount of traffic this morning considering it’s President’s day. I guess a lot of people don’t get today off, just like me.
The only thing that worries me in this deep, deep cold is power going out or natural gas going out.
This morning when I went out to get snow off my car, just the air itself felt different. Tonight/tomorrow morning, it’s supposed to get to -16F. I don’t remember it ever getting that cold before in KC.
