FREAKIN WINTER!

61 Merc · Post by **61 Merc** » January 16, 2007, 1:32 am

My heart goes out to you Mike, it must be rough when it's that cold.

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » January 16, 2007, 12:46 pm

It was 2.3º when I left for work today. Even the frost had frost on it.

Check out the fat antenna on my little putt-putt.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » January 16, 2007, 1:06 pm

not enough ice there to chill my drink.

GLindley · Post by **GLindley** » February 17, 2007, 7:56 pm

I don't know how the rest of the midwest did a month ago, but on January 12th we had an ice storm that basically brought Springifled to it's knees. My house was without power for 6 days. Had to use our fireplace for heat. Closed off a lot of the house and just used the family room to live in. The back bedrooms got down to 17°. An all electric kitchen kept us from cooking anything. We do have a gas water heater, so we could shower, but it was COLD when you got out! Brought down tons and tons of limbs and lots of trees!

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F-Zilla · Post by **F-Zilla** » February 18, 2007, 2:48 am

Gene, those are some pretty chilly pictures you got there. Sometimes we get the oppsite extreme, but it's more livable. When the Hurricanes come through like Isabella, we get our power knocked out for days, and it's stinking sweaty hot. I would prefer the hot power outage to the cold one any day. Hat's off to you for dealing with it!

Slick Fan · Post by **Slick Fan** » February 18, 2007, 12:32 pm

As much as I hate snow, I admit I'd rather deal with the white crap than with an ice storm. I've seen pics of that area on another site, it didn't look pretty...like 2" of ice on EVERYTHING. Cars completely encased in ice, etc. Nasty.

It's too bad the idea or technology of burying power lines wasn't around when your city was being built. The town I live in is only 11 years old & every line is buried. There's never any storm issues, only the occasional wayward backhoe.

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » February 18, 2007, 3:58 pm

GLindley wrote:I don't know how the rest of the midwest did a month ago, but on January 12th we had an ice storm that basically brought Springifled to it's knees. My house was without power for 6 days. Had to use our fireplace for heat. Closed off a lot of the house and just used the family room to live in. The back bedrooms got down to 17°. An all electric kitchen kept us from cooking anything. We do have a gas water heater, so we could shower, but it was COLD when you got out! Brought down tons and tons of limbs and lots of trees!

Click HERE for a few pics!

we lived with only a generator for 4 years until we got hooked up to the grid. still heat with wood.once, before we had running water, neither me or the wife got up during the night to add wood to the stove, in the morning it was 0 in the house and -65 outside.
i could mention that the outhouse seat was cold in the winter, so reading parts catalogs in there was not a good plan.do your business and get out.

only major electric thing we have is the well pump, but the generator can run that with no problem.also theres a spring a couple miles away to get water from in case we need to so i dont worry about power.its a luxury, not a necessity.
never bothered us to be without it, and i cant believe so many are so dependent on it that a week without is so devastating.
worst thing is when its real cold and the propane tanks are almost empty and the shower turns cold while your in it.

at least i know if something happened to the power here we would be able to deal with it with no big issues other than inconvenience.all those downed limbs and trees kept your fireplace going,no?

next time that happens think about the folks that do not have it at all, and how they manage to deal with it every day as there are plenty of places here that have none still.
hope you and your family are getting along okay, and you spend some time to plan for the next time this happens.

truckerdaddy66 · Post by **truckerdaddy66** » February 18, 2007, 9:38 pm

That bouceing drives me nutsss!!!!

Its chilly down here in Texas , T/D south/east ,Texas

GLindley · Post by **GLindley** » February 19, 2007, 8:40 pm

This sort of thing happened here 20 years ago, but we were without power for only 3 days. We did/do have hot water, and we put our perishable food in the back bedrooms.
Sorry if sounded like I was whining, Ice. We made it fine. Yeah, when things like this happen, it makes you appreciate what you missed for 6 days all the more. I can't say that I'll be any less independent of electricity, but I can say that yeah, we bought a generator the third day into it, so we'll be a little better off for the next time. I was a bit concerned about busted water pipes, but that's because I have indoor plumbing. Fortunately, our plumbing survived unscathed.
I suppose that if we didn't have electricity or plumbing and heated exclusively with wood, then when these things happen I wouldn't even notice...(ha!)

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » February 19, 2007, 10:30 pm

frozen plumbing can be messy, not when its frozen but when it thaws.
we have all propane appliances, water heater,cooking stove and clothes dryer .both the water heater and cooking stove need no electricity, my wife refuses to own something that relies on electricity to turn on a burner, and the water heater is an on-demand that uses 2 d cell batteries to fire the ignitor.it is actually the best water heater i have ever owned, only uses the lp when its heating. we have looked into getting a hand operated pump on the well too, a local company designed and sells/installs them but the price is high due to the fact it must be freeze proof and pump from 85 feet in our case.
truthfully even though we are getting older miss the early days here as things were simpler even though it was more work.

FREAKIN WINTER!

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