Re: the last winter I spent in MN
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Chris in Tampa on 12/23/2022, 2:57 am
Meant to post that to main thread.
The heat going out in temperatures like that is an example of why there would be no chance I would live in a place that could get that cold. Even for family in Tennessee, where it's forecast to hit 1 this morning, that's insanely cold. My great aunt has family visiting her so if her heat were to go out, she could be taken somewhere warmer. If you make a mistake when being out in weather that cold, it can turn deadly very quickly. But for some people, it could simply happen being in your home.
When my dad and I would drive to Tennessee during the winter sometimes we knew to pack things like warmer clothes and a sleeping bag for example. We were carrying clothes anyway, as well as food and water, but people up where it gets that cold need to have things like that in their car if they ever go out. I was looking at some of the videos of the blizzard conditions, in which no one should be driving in except emergency vehicles, and you could see how deadly it would become if a car broke down. I was thinking about all the people who might be visiting family up north, and might not be familiar with, or not recently, about what to do in a storm like this.
My uncle in Tennessee dripped faucets in my grandmother's vacant house, that has a crawlspace under it. He opened cabinets too which I guess you're supposed to do maybe to let the warm air get to the pipes a little easier. Pipes sometimes in the past burst down there and I bet it wasn't this cold when it happened. (and the house had people using the water)
Did your pipes burst in that? Or maybe you turned the water off? We were thinking about having my uncle turn the water off but then we weren't sure about whether the hot water heater then needed to be turned off for a gas water heater. If the water is turned off and the water heater were to lose the water in it somehow, it could damage it I guess, maybe most especially an electric one with elements. We went the easy solution, drip the water.
At least in Florida there is much less of a problem with pipes bursting, though they did mention that as a possibility in some of the northern counties in our viewing area on the local news tonight. Our house is on a concrete slab, and close to the water, so we don't have to worry about that. (although some water spickets outside could be an issue if it did get really cold, though we've never had an issue) |
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