Its supposed to be in the 60's here. But that will probably change. It always does. Oklahoma is unpredictible as fuck. But when you move to Cali you can pick up some dynamite smoke for your ailments.:biggrin:
I should move south. My car doors were frozen this morning and I had to go out and pour hot water all over them and I spilled it all over myself. I'm spraying Pam around the door frame inside. Maybe they will quit freezing?
It is cold here... I have no idea what the number is. Every morning when I let the army of dogs out... I look into their water bowl (plastic kiddie pool) it is frozen solid. It thaws out 2 hours later... but I still feel bad....and make a big bowl of water for them... this morning I was a sorry ass and did not. It was fucking cold, and wanted to go back to bed...I just said fuck it- you can wait a 2 hours...
Dont want to sound like Im rubbing it in here in sunny California, but theres a low 80's heat wave right now and I hate it.
Ah, already had a quake here last year, dont need another one just yet. Seriously, I hate it being so warm right now, winter is supposed to be cold..not short-wearing weather at noon.
I wish I lived somewhere that stayed between 50-70 year round... with overcast- not sunny. What would be the place that fits this the most?
In California? Almost any place near the coast. I live in this place called Santa Cruz and the weather would suit someone like you, plus theres a lot of overcast on account of the beach I think. I like it here, but I wish it. Any of these places though would fit that description: San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Long Beach.
My water pipes fucking froze even after I left the kitchen faucet dripping all night. It's 3 below now. I'm going to have to crawl under the crawl space with a heater and stick it down there and wait for hours and hours and pray it unthaws. Then I gotta go to Kroger and buy 9 gallons of water to use for the toilet and the dogs bowls and junk like that... THEN I have to drive 20 minutes to my parents to take a shower. It's usually not this cold here. I'm kinda doubting my car will start which will leave me waterless and feeling dirty. Good thing I took one last night before bed.
We usually use a flood light to thaw the pipes. I got one from Lowes a while back that has two lights and puts off an insane amount of heat. But it hasnt been cold enough here to worry about it. Plus in my current pad the ducts are all under the house so enough ambient heat is given off to keep under the house respecably warm. I would think water damage would be covered on your insurance policy. If the pipe ruptures thats what you are going to have. If you have the water turned off (at the street) the pipes might crack from being brittle by the cold, but the fix would be pretty easy, and not worth filing on your homeowners policy.
What do you mean turned off at the street? You can do that? I'm just sitting here at work waiting for everything to be a mess when I go home. In the past, I put a space heater in the crawl space and one in the garage where the main water line comes in and it's worked. But I don't feel comfortable doing that with no one home. If the house catches on fire, I have three dogs that will die and it's not worth it. If I didn't have the dogs there, I would be trying to thaw it now, but instead I am sitting at work making myself sick. Now I'm wishing I would have bought a house with a basement. I hated basements before, but now I am kind of rethinking that decision.
You can cut the water off at the water meter. When you lift the lid there is a I type switch in there, you can move it with plyers, or if you have the specail T handle tool, you just turn it a quarter of a turn to the right. Then you can open one of your outisde faucets till water quits coming out. The hot water is different, because it is in the tank in most houses, but there is no pressure to push it out. See?
Water is not coming out of the outside spicket. I went to my parents and took a shower and before that I went to Kroger and bought a ton of jugs of water. After the shower (I didn't dry my hair) I was unloading the jugs and my hair was actually freezing. It was crunching when I would bend it. I never remembered it being this cold here in my life. My shit is still frozen. Got heaters on everything now. Sucked having to wait so long but I had to work. I'm just hoping shit doesn't crack and bust. But it's been one of those days, no I'm not getting my hopes up.
Fuck. I feel your pain. It's colder than normal here, too, and my central furnace fan just started acting up again. It's timed to start up at 7:30PM, and as soon as it kicked in, it started making a loud buzzing noise, like the fan's going out. Temperature on the thermostat is saying it's 65 in here right now... I might actually have to put some clothes on tonight & turn the ceiling fan off before I go to sleep.
It's 3 outside right now. Pipes still frozen. I turned off the supply to the house (from inside garage, eff phatboy's way) and turned on all of the faucets. I'm too paranoid to sleep with the space heater on in the crawl space, so I am going to stay up all night to listen for the smoke alarm I put down there.
Not that anyone cares... but I am bored. I guess the crawlspace is warm. It makes sense. The heater is down there (on it's side, guess some are made like that) and it's pretty toasty down there. So toasty in fact, that I was told that crickets are living down there, hopping around. So the problem is in the garage. The garage is getting re-drywalled and insulated this spring. It has a baseboard heater, but I am afraid to use it. I seriously need to have a yardsale. There is so much shit in that garage that I won't let people see it.
