flipping cold out there

It speaks well of you to be concerned about others. I have invited over three different friends that are keeping there houses at 45. Not enough beds to go around, but plenty of wood. So far to much pride to accept. Problem is all three probably can't get credit enough to get their tanks filled again. Saddly, as it isn't the falt of any one of them, just bad luck. Probably it's just as sad their insurance will not allow a wood stove inside their houses.

He will have to get water to the hot water heater and then some small hose.

Hook the small hose to the hot water line and stick it inside the frozen line.

Turn it on and keep sliding it in and it will thaw its way thru.

But he will have to let water run to stop it from freezing again.

Or stack big bales of hay over the line and it may thaw from the bottom up.

Gary

-mike

Kind of mild compared to -20 or -30, which this area rarely sees, but not too far north from here, I've worked in those -30 temperatures, kind of prefer it a bit warmer myself LOL, say 0 to 20, can get used to that and still work outside, except if the wind is a blowin, that always does me in.

We have close to 10" of ice on the 20 acre pond, and some smooth wind blown ice to skate on in the area we cleared off with an ATV with a snow plow. It was open water 3 weeks ago.

So that jetstream finally took a dive and delivered the artic air, and if I recall when it first did so, there was no snow cover here, so I'm hoping some of the insects like ticks, gnats, black flies were decimated, I'm actually not sure how they are affected by the cold, but after last years warm winter, those ticks were abundant. I can't recall the last time we had a deep freeze with little or no snow cover.

-mike

///"Gonna spend the day checking on a few of the elders in the area and see if they need anything from town or such."///

May double your generosity be given back to you.
I am going to do what you thought of.

Dave, your doing a good thing checking on the seniors, more people need to care like you do. Have a good one.

6:30am and we're at 35 above. Will probably hit 50 tomorrow.

Allan

Its not suppose to get above 20 here all week.

Maybe the weather guessers will be wrong. (:~})

Gary

Thats how many gallons of hot water it took to thaw out the cow waterer.

Its -7 here in North Liberty Iowa. But no wind yet.

Gary

-mike

I was the biggest woose in the whole state as the school buss turned around in our house yard and I had to walk a total of 30 feet from the house.

My son one time as a little lad asked why all the other kids in town got a ride to school but he didn't and that wasn't exactly fair. I informed him that the street is only 33 ft wide in our town and the car is 18 foot long. GO DO YOUR MATH. .....We live directly across the street from the schools door. I should point out that when he was 14 he said the teacher said to not eat pink hamberger as he broke his in half. It probably would be a good point other than his very favorite food for x-mas, birthdays or actually anytime I allow him to make it is raw dog. (RAW hamberger, raw eggs, raw onion) Has been since he was two. (something wrong with the boy is a what I'm a thinkin) way to much inbreeding here in NE IA.