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A heaping two quart sauce pan of snow only equals about 1/4 in of water when melted. Less than an 1/8 of an inch when poured into a toilet. Took hours to be able to flush again. Perfect timing. Because man I've got to go.
A heaping two quart sauce pan of snow only equals about 1/4 in of water when melted. Less than an 1/8 of an inch when poured into a toilet. Took hours to be able to flush again. Perfect timing. Because man I've got to go.
Snow is about 90% air and 10% water. Ice is about 90% water and 10% air.
A heaping two quart sauce pan of snow only equals about 1/4 in of water when melted. Less than an 1/8 of an inch when poured into a toilet. Took hours to be able to flush again. Perfect timing. Because man I've got to go.
Bears don't "go" in the woods in the winter. They form an anal plug while hibernating, and don't relieve themselves until spring. Just sayin'....
A heaping two quart sauce pan of snow only equals about 1/4 in of water when melted. Less than an 1/8 of an inch when poured into a toilet. Took hours to be able to flush again. Perfect timing. Because man I've got to go.
That's what happens when you hire a dame from Michigan to head up ERCOT. She has no clue.
Well I believe I have a clue but I can tell you I was caught totally off guard by this. I've got a nice list of changes I have to make now. This will never happen to me again.
Today I crawled under my wet and muddy house (I live in a "mobile home") to turn off my water inlet valve. Then I went and turned my water meter back on. I turned it off on the 16th because I woke up to 11 inches of snow, -2 degrees, and my water had froze and burst under my house.
Since I turned my house off now it seems there are no leaks between the meter and house.
I now have access to water at three faucets in the line before my house. One is right outside the back door so I'm good on water again.
I do not believe the media is telling the true death toll in all of this.
There are tons of dead people.
Then there are people who were scared and in danger, but survived.
There were people who were scared they were going to die but were not really in danger.
Then people like me who were never in danger and never afraid that we were. But we were miserable.
I don't like miserable.
Well, that weather is pretty much unprecedented in Texas so no surprise that people were unprepared. It sounds like plumbing issues are the biggest problem, since homeowners will have to deal with repairs themselves as opposed to a utility co. bringing power back online. That's where I'd focus my efforts, like having an easily accessible main shut off and insulating exposed pipes, or changing to Pex which is less susceptible to bursting.
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