Posted on 02/18/2021 12:30:32 PM PST by Shadylake
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Thousands of people who live in Austin are without water Thursday, and there has been no word from the City of Austin when the water might return.
KXAN reached out to Austin Water multiple times ahead of the city’s planned 2 p.m. news conference looking for answers but still has not heard back.
Austin Water tweeted about the issue around 9:30 a.m. but still has not said when it might be able to resume water service to those areas affected.
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If water’s still running they can fill pots and pans too...put a lid on them and the water will stay good a long time.
“When the pipes thaw is when the bursting will really start.”
People don’t understand that when it warms up, it drives the cold deeper in the ground and freezes more pipes.
Got a source for that?
Lots of practical experience owning a lot of properties in a northern state.... experience and common sense.
Some people don’t realize that cold goes down and heat goes up. When heat arrives, the cold goes deeper. Common sense.... some people don’t have it.
Source...LOL
Usually,the National Guard can provide relief during these natural disasters but the National Guard has more important things to do and has priority babysitting Bidets swamp.
IOW, as usual you have nothing. You are only speculating.
Your alleged anecdotal experience is meaningless, makes no sense, as usual, and you can’t prove it.
I sure hope nobody believes you.
Warm air temps push cold deeper into the ground. What idiocy.
Interesting. So in your world apparently there is no Second Law of Thermodynamics.
waterlines in NY/NE are always buried well below the frost line and come into the house from underground, as a rule they don’t freeze
we were -20 for almost three weeks some years ago and my waterline never froze
and it was prolly even colder/longer where metmom lived at the time
Even with the air temp at -20, the snowpack prevents the ground from getting that cold.
And if it snows before the ground freezes, it insulates the ground and prevents the freezing in the first place.
The real problem is when it gets that cold with no snowpack.
But even then, the pipes are buried below the frost line, like you said.
Why isn’t FEMA handing out water?
Crisis in Austin .... not able to get a scotch and water .... will be hell to pay.
Texas is full of people that don’t know to shut off and drain water when there is no heat in freezing conditions. Been there, did that, no problems.
we are Republicans. We moved here very recently. Hoping to take it back to RED
I left Austin in 1988, I knew it was lost then.
I think you might need to shut off water and/or gas in earthquake damage.
Hand of God.
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Burst pipes flood houses.
Expanding water bursts pipes.
Water expands when it freezes.
The problem isn’t “frozen pipes”.
What were you getting at?
Cold is the abench of warmth.
Heat doesn’t push cold around, it eliminates it.
absence
Happens out here, too-I live in a rural area-we wrap pipes with foam, etc every Winter to prevent freezing if power goes out to wells-most years it works-this time it didn’t because the power was off to the water co’s wellhead pump station for hours-the pump wasn’t on and it froze-so customers’ pipes froze, too-my neighbors and I are hoping the pipes thaw out slowly and naturally and there isn’t too much damage to our waterlines...
I’m hoping that too! Good luck to you and your neighbors.
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