Frozen thunderstorms

If you leave your faucets dripping just a bit they will not freeze. Also 99.9% of the time they don't burst, they first freeze and crack then when they thaw they 'burst'. It's a series of events. If your water has stopped coming out of the faucet but isn't pouring out of the pipe/wall, turn the water supply off to the house then once it warms up crack the supply back open slowly and look for leaks.

 

I couldnt find the snow shovel, I had to use it to scrape my driveway today.
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Is it continuous plastic tubing, like PEX? Is it PVC CPVC? Copper. I am pretty sure it can't be galvanized because a lot of the homes in Texas are pretty new. Regardless as long as it's not galvanized you don't need a plumber to fix it. Shark bites are so easy to use anyone can fix their own plumbing. I don't even own a torch anymore after using shark bites.

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Even if it is galvanized you can take the plumbing back to the threaded end of one pipe and thread on a shark bite then do the same on the other end, then simply plug in a piece of PEX between the two. It's as easy as plugging in a lamp.

 

Was in SW FW for most of the day today.
Saw 6 or so trucks in ditches, and saw a Chrysler 300 almost lose it.

 

My video of the snow.

http://s463.photobucket.com/albums/qq358/sgsuperman105/?action=view&current=Snow2011.mp4

 

My observation here is the pipes are shallow in the ground so water starts out colder. The pipes are in walls with minimal insulation. In the north the pipes are inside the house.

 

Power just went off for about 5 minutes.

 

My pipes are copper, and my house is a bit unique. The part that freezes is a cantilevered section of the house. The pipes are exposed to the cold air from underneath. We've been here 11 years and never had a problem until last year. This year, by the time I thought about turning the faucet to drip, it was already frozen.

Plumber supposed to be here before noon tomorrow.

 

roads got bad this evening... the ice that thawed had now remelted... I was headed down a hill when my 3 ton truck started spinning left... I had hit a patch of solid ice on a bit of a left hand turn. Nothing i can do at this point besides go with the flow. instead of trying to steer out of it (im horizontal at this point and moving sideways about 15 mph down the hill) i just kick the steering wheel the way of the turn, when im about a full 180, i threw it into reverse and was lucky enough to catch some snow for traction, took it slowly down the hill backwards till i got to some flat ground to asses the damage.

was lucky enough that all i did was tag a road work pylon, after i pulled that out from under the car i finished my endeavour only to find out blockbuster had closed.

the people behind me sure got a show..

 

While getting up this morning & watching the news, I heard the sound of what I thought was a dumpster slamming into concrete followed by a lot of yelling. Turned out to be a truck making contact with a wall on I-30 west freeway. I live near the access road of the freeway so lately this has become a familiar but disturbing noise.

 

Over here in Garland.... our parking lots had turned into playgrounds.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachary_koontz/5417378505/

 

I like how plumbers delay coming to your house until Saturday so they can charge you double.

This is a $240 leak.
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About 8 bucks for a shark bite. cut the split piece out and snap the new shark bite in, keep 240 bucks in your pocket for Pizza and beer for tomorrows game.

Rob. After looking at the picture of the broken pipe it looks like it's M copper. There are 3 grades of copper, K, L and M. M is the thinest and will split easily.

Did you know that with faucets off and no water running hot pipes will freeze before cold?

BTW, just got back from getting milk....
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You guys ready for round 2? haha


How bad do you think it'll be?

 

Hoping easy... and i wish they would clean the streets off already!!!

 

The roads seemed to be bad this morning. But by noon, it was clearing up fast. Hardly any snow down here in Joshua. My shrubs got a slight dusting. How about you guys?

 

It wasn't bad over on the west side this morning, most of it cleared up by noon.

 

I have got to drive to downtown Dallas the next two days for a seminar. I hate to drive the Mondial in salt and slush, so I hope the streets are reasonably dry in the morning.

 

Rob: It is either the Mondial or the M5. Neither one is great rush hour transportation. Is it the F-chat administrator's job to call my wife and tell her to let me drive her minivan to Dallas?

DRG

 

What, no Netflix? I figured BB was just about toast.