Posted on 01/22/2005 4:04:20 AM PST by SamAdams76
Just moved from Long Island to Lehigh County Pennsylvania.
It started snowing here around 9:00 a.m. this morning. We've got plenty of supplies and my neighbor has a new tractor with a snow plow that he loves to come over and do our driveway with.
My husbands with NYC Sanitation, the "Greatest Snow Removers" on the east coast. He's home recovering from a heart attack and groaning about all the overtime he's missing LOL.
Finally awakened you, huh? Yes, I should have constructed that sentence more carefully. And no, it isn't snowing here, it is lightly raining. It should change over to snow showers later today.
Had frozen pipes last night. What I do is turn on all faucets hot & cold, whether they run or not, and leave them on. It may take a while so you must be around, but eventually the water comes back. Don't ask me why, my cousin the plumber says: impossible. My boyfriend says: impossible, but it's worked for me in two different houses.
If you do get the water back, you must let the water run continuously at "a pencil lead" thickness to keep them from re-freezing.
Hope it works, good luck!
It just started snowing down here in Norwalk. Do you know the "Indian" saying "Small flakes, Big storm"? We've got small flakes.
Is that a real temperature or wind chill?
that's gotta be real temp.
I missed "78" because I was overseas. When I did return to the region I was surprised to see just how much people respond to the forecasted snowstorms.
I do not recall things being so bad before 1978 where people would automatically go into a panic mode. I figure that the supermarket companies encourage the television stations to hype these things up. Supermarkets tend to advertise a lot and so they wield considerable local clout!
This snow season is however shaping up as a big one.
Actually, there are a lot of chemical additives that you can add to rock salt to bring down it's operating temperatures.
Here in Indy, we're using liquid Calcium Chloride as a pre-wetting agent, which drops the effective temperature down to -5 or so.
Doesn't anyone consider going to church on Sunday mornings out there?
I really should invest in a blow torch. Or have a plumber relocate my kitchen sink so it doesn't call for pipes to come clear across the uninsulated garage ceiling. That's where they freeze.
You are right they often thaw out by themselves. Maybe plumbers don't want this generally known, eh? ;)
By the way I am in PA a little to the east of Pittsburgh and we have around four inches of snow here. Actually doesn't look too bad, snowing lightly. I will never get over the snow we had a few years back, three feet deep. After that nothing seems too bad.
like slightly fluffy hail. Think little chunks of the old frost from your freezer, that hasn't quite turned clear.
You have to get them shielded from the cold air. Insulation works. I had problems for years with frozen pipes in my old home. Finally I opened up my attic and discovered that the insulation had simply fallen away (skimpy contractors back in the 1960s), and the fix took me all of a minute.
Probably not, actually. This storm is tracking farther south. In the Portland area, forecast is for a foot, maybe. If we get a foot and half it'll be a surprize. Biggest single storm accumulations I recall around here were pushing two feet, and that was not cold, fluffy stuff either, like this one will be.
I'll never forget one 4th of July back in the late 70's. The weathermen hyped good weather for the weekend, when it was obvious it was going to rain the entire time. I'm sure the charcoal and hot dog bun industry put them up to it. Since then, I've always been suspicious of the profit motive in weather reporting.
The low will deepen rapidly over the gulf stream, they are now predicting hurricane force winds for Cape Cod. Also some slowing means a couple more hours of snow (another 1/2 foot so 24-36 is looking likely).
You had water pipes in your attic? Cool...... :)
I'm here in da Bronx, we have small flakes falling at a good clip, 16 degrees, and the streets are now coated.
The water in Long Island Sound/Eastchester Bay looked like it was on fire, smoke everywhere. It was really neat to cross over the bridge and see the "smoke" creep over the roadway, like something out of a sci-fi movie.
Jus' started here North of Syracuse. 3rd Saturday in a row we've gotten dumped on. This time tho' the winds are wicked and its WAY colder than we are used to having associated with a snowstorm.
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