Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
My area is circled in red, and those numbers are Fahrenheit. It's gonna be a tad nipply in my corner of Canada. Did I mention that because of the Great Lakes it's an incredibly damp cold that laughs at and skewers however many heavy layers of down and wool you're wearing? Even better, when the wind blows from the NNW over the still-unfrozen Lakes Superior and Huron, the lake-effect snow squalls that result are like a conveyor belt dumping several feet of snow on some areas for days on end.
I'd challenge you to a pi**ing match but the stream would freeze instantly before you could write your name in the snow!
My area is circled in red, and those numbers are Fahrenheit. It's gonna be a tad nipply in my corner of Canada. Did I mention that because of the Great Lakes it's an incredibly damp cold that laughs at and skewers however many heavy layers of down and wool you're wearing? Even better, when the wind blows from the NNW over the still-unfrozen Lakes Superior and Huron, the lake-effect snow squalls that result are like a conveyor belt dumping several feet of snow on some areas for days on end.
I'd challenge you to a pi**ing match but the stream would freeze instantly before you could write your name in the snow!
Oh! Before I forget. Under Texas law, a snow forecast requires you to go to HEB and buy up all the bottled water, bread, milk and eggs. I don’t make the rules.
Because, as Texas found out in Feb 21… it happens… and not preparing kills people. We were literally the ONLY home in our entire development that did not have our pipes freeze.
The insanity in Texas (I would extrapolate to places like AL, LA, MS,FL etc. except I have NO first hand knowledge) wrt: water systems for housing and business is unvbelievable. All plumbing exposed, outdoors.. What. Supply’s (including FIRE!). Pumps. Pipes. Pressure Tanks. The gamut.
I know “it is different” down there (I spent HS and college in AZ). But dumb-AZZ engineering and government regulations don’t cut the mustard. Physics 101. Water freezes at temperatures that are not actually all THAT cold… everywhere… some places less than others.
Yeah I’m curmudgeonly tonight, apologies. But the sheer amount of stupid in the world today is mind-bogglingh
Not saying we are building right but it is how we build - fought and lost on (2) two projects now each a billion dollars or more in the area to heat trace and insulate at least the eye wash shower supply pipes.
Heck, my house has the pex water lines above the insulation in the attic (now under 2 layers of rockwool I threw on top of them).
Oh! Before I forget. Under Texas law, a snow forecast requires you to go to HEB and buy up all the bottled water, bread, milk and eggs. I don’t make the rules.
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