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IMO, it is NEVER a good morning for yard work.
I’ve heard it about leaving interior faucets dripping, just not sure about outside.
The flu has messed up my thought process or I would’ve typed this in my previous response…
We have high efficiency furnaces at our house, and they create condensation like AC units do in the summer due to recycling gases and creating moisture.
When it gets below 18 degrees, I have to go out and take a hair dryer to defrost the lines as they come out of the house. With a low of 16 tonight, I guess I have that to look forward to.
Yay! Give me the summertime anyday!
As a Southern it's just numbers to us if you have never been exposed to the temps being projected. I know just enough about them to know that single digit temps with a 25-40 mph chill factor can be deadly. Please be careful, children and pets should stay inside as much as possible. Go Dawgs!
Heady and well-timed advice, sir! Thanks!
Go Dawgs!
It's 76 here in the Palm Beaches, but it is supposed to get down to 41 tomorrow night! That is brutally cold here and it will preempt murder stories on the local news, and pretty much anything short of thermonuclear war.
We’re taking the same precautions everyone’s mentioned (also hanging a 75 watt light in truck’s engine bay since it’s out, just in case).
Biggest worry for us is wind - our area (Sandy Springs - lotso lotso tippy trees) loses power at the slightest burp. So I split an extra 1/4-1/2 cord today just in case we have to keep things warm with just the fireplace. That makes the dog happy if no one else.
They're predicting down to 9° in UpState, SC with winds of 5-10 mph...that's cold no matter where you are. We'll be keeping both ourselves and all of the puppers in as much as possible. Just need to go out tomorrow and get some wraps for the faucets, fill the propane tank for the grill if necessary and check the pipes.
All great advise from you guys. I’m a South GA boy but I lived in Canada for six+ years and by the third winter I became acclimated a bit to true cold. But having been back a few years I’m not looking forward to temps in the teens. Especially with 20+ mph winds. The wind makes it much more harsh.
Make sure pipes are insulated and any place with a draft potential is sealed as best as possible. I would also add, for anyone not accustomed to really cold weather, check the antifreeze in your vehicles radiators. You can get a tester at most any parts house if you don’t have one. Actually, most places will likely check it for you. Worth the trouble if you have any doubts. A busted radiator happens easier than you might think.
A veteran speaks.
For what it's worth, wind chill won't affect pipes, etc., just exposed skin. Now if you can help me talk my son into letting us take him into work tomorrow morning rather than riding his bike ...
Tex, do you have a nice tie like that?
41 sounds so dam.n good right now.
this may be the occasion to leave a little water running. The problem is the temp is not going back above freezing for two days. That almost never happens i Ga
turn the inside on. the water just needs to be moving
Forgot the sterno.
The earlier discussion about the faucet covers made me do a little research. I found that the styrofoam covers are really only effective down to about 23 when the temps in the day are over freezing.
As a precaution, I turned off the water valves to each spigot and let the water drain out (there was none).
I put the spigot covers back on just because I don’t want to store them.
Around 1986 or so we had single digit temps in south Georgia that exploded the cabbages and onions. Vidalia onions went from being short and flat to being rounder like conventional onions because they started to be planted deeper against future losses. Seems like I've been seeing flatter onions again the last 10 years or so ...