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The beauty of living in the northeast.
We have it all, every type of weather.
Heat, cold, snow, rain, hurricanes, tornadoes, whatever.
Our infrastructure and building codes are designed to handle this stuff.
Well, supposed to anyway.
Thats the beauty of it
We even caught an earthquake a few years back
Only natural disaster we don't have is the volcano
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The beauty of living in the northeast.
We have it all, every type of weather.
Heat, cold, snow, rain, hurricanes, tornadoes, whatever.
Our infrastructure and building codes are designed to handle this stuff.
Well, supposed to anyway.
It’s so bad and cold here that nothing more can be a negative surprise. If a huge tsunami comes and kills us all, I’d actually be happy about that.
Since you were born in 1981, I guess you missed the ice storm of 1978.
It wasn't pleasant. When I hear "ice storm" I book a hotel room....just in case.
Single biggest reason to keep your car gassed up is to escape the insanity. Shut off the water, drain your pipes, and leave.
Yes, it can happen there. Ice storm+extended low temps = misery.
They're predicting one here tomorrow, and supposed to be north of here (counties that border VA). The second I get an inkling they are wrong and my county might be affected I am outta here.
Well i meant more so not crazy temps like that but the power outages & literal icicles IN PPL’s HOMES. Surely our infrastructure can handle it better ... yes? I heard pipes are not buried as deep & not as well insulated in TX as they are here.
The pics coming out of that region are frightening
Well i meant more so not crazy temps like that but the power outages & literal icicles IN PPL’s HOMES. Surely our infrastructure can handle it better ... yes? I heard pipes are not buried as deep & not as well insulated in TX as they are here.
The pics coming out of that region are frightening
Our municipal water lines are 4ft deep some a little deeper. My water main coming into my house is under the footing below the frost line.
Many of what you see could of been avoided if people turned off the water in the house and opened al the faucets to drain the system when you have no heat. If your house is 26 degrees and you have copper its going to crack. I'm sure they don't have insulated pipes. Its absolutely a joke that roofs have collapsed due to the weight of snow. NY code is 140mph Cat 4 for roofs, we don't get hurricanes like this. Even Sandy didn't top 115mph. But it's still require to withstand it just incase. Clearly homes in Texas don't follow the International building code.
I heard pipes are not buried as deep & not as well insulated in TX as they are here.
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That's def true here in NC so probably true there as well. A long term lack of heat with sustained cold temperatures outside, and that can happen anywhere though. When we had that ice storm in '78 my parents sent me and my sisters to my grandmother's in Rockaway but they stayed behind to keep water running in the pipes. It was miserable for the two days we were home though. It was sooooo cold, and it gets dark early. Hurricane is different, it's not cold, you can go outside with no problems, pipes don't freeze and at least you get a few more hours of daylight.
Powers that be should have prepared people better for how to winterize their homes like what gx89 said. But I know someone who grew up in Boston who lives there and her pipes still burst outside. She and her husband are hard core cold weather campers so they've been ok other than that as they have the equipment to stay warm.
Well i meant more so not crazy temps like that but the power outages & literal icicles IN PPL’s HOMES. Surely our infrastructure can handle it better ... yes? I heard pipes are not buried as deep & not as well insulated in TX as they are here.
The pics coming out of that region are frightening
Yes and no. Some apartment complexes here built 2000 and later were built by southern companies and they use southern style insulation (or lackthereof) as well as not burying the water lines as deep as they should. Could also hold true for new houses built here as well but I am not sure about that.
Yes and no. Some apartment complexes here built 2000 and later were built by southern companies and they use southern style insulation (or lackthereof) as well as not burying the water lines as deep as they should. Could also hold true for new houses built here as well but I am not sure about that.
Interesting. I would have thought the newer houses would have been built better.
They deregulated themselves into this. Let big energy save a few bucks by waiving winterizing requirements. Welcome to winter.
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