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We are behind yall over here in Carolina.. midnight was 31 steady dropping all day. They say 11 degrees tonight.

I had planned on going to the job today for a couple hours but decided to sleep in lol. Got up around 10am...4 day weekend bitches!! Still wishing i was in Cozumel with a bucket of Coronas ...
 
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hog88 said:
5 degrees this morning. Brrrrrrr
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Heat wave there. It was 1 here at 7, and 0 at 9 according to my clock with the temperature sensor on the front porch. Think we're up to a whopping 3 now and my clock says 4, so it's fairly accurate. TVA apparently told utilities earlier to implement rotating power outages; they must have figured a way around that or applied it to businesses - we haven't lost power. If it gets cold around you, start burning some of those invading yankees and california clowns.
 
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AM64 said:
Heat wave there. It was 1 here at 7, and 0 at 9 according to my clock with the temperature sensor on the front porch. Think we're up to a whopping 3 now and my clock says 4, so it's fairly accurate. TVA apparently told utilities earlier to implement rotating power outages; they must have figured a way around that or applied it to businesses - we haven't lost power. If it gets cold around you, start burning some of those invading yankees and california clowns.
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I’ll stack ‘em up like cordwood.
 
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JOEY’S ALL VOL !!! said:
It’s 7 degrees here with the wind blowing like a banshee! Windchill = -5.

This blows!
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I couldn't believe the wind and how fast the temperature dropped last night. That was impressive. It stayed around 45 all day and within what seemed like 30 minutes we were in the 20s with 20 mph wind gusting to around 40.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Up to 23 here heat wave!! Master bathroom has two shower heads, the garden tub, outer wall vanity, and toilet all frozen up
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Sounds like you Texans need to learn how to deal with this climate change stuff until you can get on board and accept the fact that it's going to get cold in the winter and hot in the summer.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Up to 23 here heat wave!! Master bathroom has two shower heads, the garden tub, outer wall vanity, and toilet all frozen up
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Oof. I kept water dribbling last night, but I think the real saving grace was that my ducts leak and kept it warm under the house. This is a 100+ year old house, so all the plumbing was added and basically comes up through the floors - so no pipes in the walls. Not nearly the mess that you could get into with new houses. Maybe when your stuff froze it didn't expand enough to break the pipes; you'd think by now with more knowledge in materials, we'd have made piping with the ability to absorb expansion caused by freezing. I've wondered if PEX is any better in that respect or just an easier installed material retaining all the old problems.
 
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AM64 said:
Oof. I kept water dribbling last night, but I think the real saving grace was that my ducts leak and kept it warm under the house. This is a 100+ year old house, so all the plumbing was added and basically comes up through the floors - so no pipes in the walls. Not nearly the mess that you could get into with new houses. Maybe when your stuff froze it didn't expand enough to break the pipes; you'd think by now with more knowledge in materials, we'd have made piping with the ability to absorb expansion caused by freezing. I've wondered if PEX is any better in that respect or just an easier installed material retaining all the old problems.
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So this house has PEX and yes that’s one of the selling points is it is more durable during freeze expansion. The plumbing routes thru the attic and down in the walls. Knock on wood but we didn’t have any issues two years ago during the really big freeze. Just thaw them out and go on. I will know tomorrow afternoon 🤷‍♂️
 
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