Man I just saw how bad this is going to be. I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to save my fruiting plants in my yard. Thanks for the sprinkler line draining tip also.
other than covering plants, which might not help as much as usual given the kind of freeze that is projected. I read a couple tricks of using a garage lamp or using incandescent christmas lights (C9 or C7) in combination with covering. Obviously you have to be careful with set up so you don't start a fire, but depending on how things go for the next few days i might run my strand of outdoor christmas lights in my flower beds.
Wow that's horrible and that was just a light glaze of freezing drizzle. It's only going to get worse over the next week.
“Now the ambulance trying to come down this mother****er. You better slow your mother****in’...who the hell you gon’ help if you crash? ****...” LOL Sorry for laughing ... That is awful. *Car Clank* *Car Clank* *Car Clank* *18 Wheeler Clank* Holy ****!
So pipe freezing question. Should you run water through pipes in the house? We are on a raised block and have under house crawlspace.
At least insulate them. I haven't a clue if this is a good or bad idea - if the temp drops below low teen, I was thinking I might just shut off the main water supply and run some faucets to drain the pipes. Would just be for those few hours of peak cold (basically Mon night to Tues mid-morning).
Long freezes are worse than deep freezes for pipes. It'll at least get above freezing every day I believe. Any outside pipes need to be wrapped, obviously. One of the best things you can do is make sure your heater is running so the ambient heat will get into crawl spaces and your attic. Don't just turn off the heater and get tons of blankets...hot air needs to be moving through your house.
Depends on who you ask as to length of freeze. Right now the Weather Channel app is saying that on Monday the low is 15 and the high is 30.
So today has just been getting work emails every hour from different branches across the state saying, "F@#%, it's cold. We're going home."
Schools around my area are already cancelling tomorrow and Fri. There is a run on kerosene heaters as well.
Already icing pretty heavy around Austin -- sucks that it is really cold before we have possibly record lows in a few days. Last crazy freeze was about a decade ago and I lost a bunch of nice plants/ trees -- put them in a utility room with a gas hot water heater and it still froze them long enough to kill them.
I’m not sure if it will rise above freezing to do anything with the sprinkler system. I know mine froze before after a freeze as nothing happened when I turned it on the next day. Whatever water is in those lines may already be frozen. It may go above freezing for a time tomorrow and I will try some stuff. Also, I’m going to have one hell of an electric bill as the pool has to run 24 x 7 for another five or six days while below freezing. I probably won’t run the pool pump for several days after to counter this and offset it. The only other thing I know to do is just drip the faucets on both hot and cold sides. The Weather Channel says it’s going down to zero degrees in North TX. But, local forecast says lows in low teens. That is a pretty big f-ing gap there between the forecasts! I wonder who is right? I remember in I think it was 2011 when North TX got a foot of snow in February around when the Packers and Steelers played the Super Bowl here. No weather forecasters saw that coming at all. Ever since then, my trust only goes so far with these weather forecasters.
