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oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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Yeah, they are preaching Armegeddon here in N AL - as ususal - for 1-2" of snow! Everybody rushed out to get supplies for milk sammiches. ANd not supposed to start here til 3 pm. Schools were closed as of late last night and also closed Redstone Arsenal. It's crazy. I am in Huntsville and may split us and go both N and S. Think Ben should get some where he is, not sure here. Did see where it started about 30 min ago about 15 mi from me. Who knows, but everyone will panic! It IS in the teens here, and that is way cold for where I am.
 
Brad

Brad

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1-2"? We call that a dusting. Fiver doesn't even blink at that.
Good news for you is that it will be gone pretty quick.
 
oscarflytyer

oscarflytyer

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Brad - I grew up in IN. I know snow. And agree with you. But here, it is pure panic. They close schools if it MIGHT snow! And funny, no sooner than I had posted above, and about 5 m in later saw flakes AND got a weather alert that snow was falling. It is like a MAJOR event here!
 
Ian

Ian

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1/2" of sleet might as well be nuclear fallout here, mass pandelerium and everything shuts down. But the linesmen and road crews don't call in sick when it's 110 in the shade in late July, either.
 
P

popper

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Wife asked me last eve if snow fences really work - she grew up in N. Ne. What? Snow up to the bumper I don't mind - it's the 6" ice storms I hate.
 
J

JohnD

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28 degrees with sleet and snow in the central portion of Louisiana. We've lived and worked in Chicago and northwest Arkansas where this sort of uncivilized weather is more prevalent. Down here, this is noteworthy.
 
Chris

Chris

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Well here I am in northern NY hoping for -30 weather so I can work on my extreme cold bullet lube experiment. Just got snow every day and above zero. Maybe below zero Mon AM but not cold enough for me.
 
Ian

Ian

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It's dry as a chip here but it's the first day that didn't get above freezing in years so everyone in town left work early to go home and thaw frozen pipes. Lowe's ran out of small propane cylinders and heat guns by noon.
 
Brad

Brad

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Pipes freeze? Huh, never heard of that.
You guys ever heard of insulation? Running pipes thru inside walls helps too. Let me guess, pipes in crawl space under the house?
 
Ian

Ian

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Pretty much. In the summer you don't have to run the water heater, though. I don't like dealing with frozen pipes so I bury what I can, insulate everything in the walls, run heat tape under HVAC foam insulation on all the supply lines from the storage tanks (and check every year to make sure the heat tape is working), and run a heater in the pump/pressure tank/filter room. Everything is just peachy at my house as long as the power is on. The power to the water system, including the necessary anti-freeze equipment, is redundant through a sub-panel which can be alternately powered with the backup diesel genset, all that being a contingency for the periodic ice storms we get.
 
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