Marie Miller
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Where are you located Beth if I may ask?
How's the Weather Where You Are?
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Beth Gallagher
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I'm in Houston, Marie.
Don Alaska
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Up close to freezing now. We are in our January thaw for real and things are supposed to stay this warm most of the week. In some years, the "thaw" saves buildings from having to be shoveled or collapse but we haven't reached that point this year. Anchorage got 42 inches of snow in January, so we may have gotten a little more than that. I don't track snowfall so I haven't the accurate figures, but we probably got 4 feet in January but we had a drier December.
Marie Miller
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Thank you. You may want to consider an energy review of your home.
Steve North
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tonight it will be -25c.....
Tomorrow not much warmer..
Tomorrow not much warmer..
It was 13 overnight, is 18 right now, f/l like -1, according to the weather app, and lots of north wind all day today. Not supposed to get warmer than 24 today, but better tomorrow. Once we get past this weekend, it looks like it will gradually start to warm back up in this area, which is a wonderful bit of news. Assuming that it actually happens.
Marie Miller
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COLD
Beth Gallagher
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37F and really windy; the wind makes it seem much colder. We will be down into the low 20's tonight and then warming back up again.
Don Alaska
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24 F. this morning. It is rather cool that Alabama is colder than we are at the moment. I suspect that will change shortly though. March and April will be COMPLETELY different.
Jacob Petersheim
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Unusual number of sunny days here for Winter, and this is another. Woke to -3 degrees and only slowly rising just a little bit.
Jake Smith
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Hard to believe 25 degrees in fl., when we woke up, pipes "froze", so no running water, 31 now, and they still froze. I dripped water last night, maybe not enough, and at about 5 am I heard the dripping stop, got up and checked it, and there was no water, but I'm hoping they don't burst, when thawed.
Jacob Petersheim
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I was living in a crappy basement apartment in my college days. We had a really rough Winter, and where the water came in the pipe froze and burst ahead of the meter. This was not quiet and a real mess, water spraying and freezing everywhere. These older homes had the water main entering only 18" below ground. Most had once used well water, and city water was an add-on done on the fly.
The house I own now dates to 1964. The water enters around 7 feet below ground, and code is pretty much the same now as far as I know. But I still take care to have some extra heat where the water meter is when we get bitter cold. I don't ever want to relive a true pipe burst.
The house I own now dates to 1964. The water enters around 7 feet below ground, and code is pretty much the same now as far as I know. But I still take care to have some extra heat where the water meter is when we get bitter cold. I don't ever want to relive a true pipe burst.
Marie Miller
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Single digits then wind chill factor. Tomorrow highs in the 50s. Mother Nature is going through menopause. Any better ideas.
Marie Mallory
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Our water is ruining now, pipe must have warmed up , so far no sign of pipes being busted.
Beth Gallagher
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Sunny and about 50°F. Supposed to be around 70 tomorrow.
Beth Gallagher
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Are y'all on a well? I'm glad the pipes have thawed with no obvious damage.
Jake Smith
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Yes it's a well and I feel like "the lucky one", today, that I didn't have to repair pipes. ,
Marie Miller
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Please give them time to thaw.
Don Alaska
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Back to normal (for us) this morning. -3 F. and clear.