>>>Grady,
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>>>What do people do when their pipes freeze up there? Here they thaw out in a day or so. I would think it could be months up there....
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>>It was minus 24 celcius this morning. Pipes don't freeze very often here. Our water supply pipes are twelve feet underground where the temperature is supposed to always be about 55° F. The pipes enter the house through the basement cement floor eight feet below grade. Almost every house has an insulated cement basement. There is an indoor and outdoor tap on any pipe such as one for a garden hose. For winter the inside tap is closed and the outside tap is opened and the water between the taps is drained, so the pipe will not freeze. Even with these precautions, sometimes a pipe at the twelve foot depth will still freeze, expand and break resulting in a water volcano in someone's front yard, but the city is quick to fix that if it happens. Of course that disappoints the kids who like to run and slide on the ice. BTW, the kid next door and his buddy have made a half size igloo in the back yard. (true:))
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>It's -19C here now. Supposed to warm up to a balmy -17C (0F) for a high.
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>Tonight it is supposed to get chilly .. -26C (-15F) or so plus a nice Kansas breeze to drop the chills into the -40s.
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>I sure hope they can stop this warming.

This morning we woke up to minus 10 C with a promise of minus 5 C by this afternoon. the long range forecast is for warmer temperatures, but the weather man was wrong once before, so I'll believe it when it happens. Thanks for shipping the warm air north for a while. When we're done with it we'll ship it to Florida to wake up the iguanas.