Too Cold Outside

[Clutch]

Yesterday morning I was in Milanville PA the wind chill was 10 Belo all night and when I tried to start my Duramax in the morning it said 4 on the mirror. It was the first time ever that truck didn't start right up took 4 tries but it finally went when it warmed up to 5 outside Lauren took some pictures of the frozen Delaware river on the way home tonightView attachment 79282

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[olds307 and 403]

Balmy -36C this morning. Ahh Winter on the Prairies.

 

[wonderboy24]

Its too cold! My daily driver Camry is covered in road salt right now and it's too cold to wash it off. Currently my kitchen window thermometer is reading around 2-3°F, and even in my home garage it's only about 25°F. If you try to wash the car the water freezes the second it hits the car. I'm hoping none of my outdoor spigots have frozen and cracked, they are only brass. I started covering them a couple years ago but I still had one freeze up and crack last year. There has been a ton of water main breaks nearby already and I'm sure there will be more. Pittsburgh has a notoriously old and failure-prone water supply system. Most parts of the system are lead pipe and are over 110 years old.

I usually don't mind winter but this is just too cold!

install drainable shut offs before the out side faucet.

 

[N3M3S1S]

It has been unseasonably cold here in DE. Been like 10 degrees every damn day. Really ruining what I want to do since my friend's garage is sh*t for holding in heat. Doesn't help that I walk out my front door and I'm like NOPE and go back in. lol

 

[joesregalproject]

install drainable shut offs before the out side faucet.

I have been doing this one by one as they break. Now 3 of the 5 spigots have a shutoff before the spigot itself so I can empty them.

 

[wonderboy24]

I have been doing this one by one as they break. Now 3 of the 5 spigots have a shutoff before the spigot itself so I can empty them.

i am a service plumber. i have already replaced about 75 of them lot of ppl here leave there hoses on , then the cold sets in and they break. i try to tell them but i am back most of the time a year later to replace them again.

 

[joesregalproject]

i am a service plumber. i have already replaced about 75 of them lot of ppl here leave there hoses on , then the cold sets in and they break. i try to tell them but i am back most of the time a year later to replace them again.

I don't leave the hoses on and I cover them with those foam faucet covers. I drain the ones that I can and hope the others don't break. When they do break, I'll sweat on an indoor shutoff so it doesn't happen again.

 

[pagrunt]

This cold snap is making me so happy that I work outside. I got all walking routes this week. The only thing that makes unemployment look good for now.

 

[grandamman]

I thought Iowa uses a lot of salt on the roads.
Nope, Missouri uses way more!
Winter Winter frozen chicken dinner!

 

[joesregalproject]

I thought Iowa uses a lot of salt on the roads.
Nope, Missouri uses way more!
Winter Winter frozen chicken dinner!

That's nothing, you haven't seen a thing until you get behind a yellow PennDOT plow truck. There is an even coating of loose rock salt covering my street right now, I kid you not. You could literally shovel it up off the road.