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OK folks, make sure you're letting your pipes flow a little, as four or five days at 0 or below are here! Don't be caught off guard!😀
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Yeahhh...
Our friends from almost up to the Canadian border have this ritual from about December 1st onward to March 1st where they never close the cabinet doors under their kitchen sink to keep the plumbing from freezing.
We had a thing with our bathtub many winters ago where all of a sudden the drain spontaneously clogged. I fought it for like a day and it wouldn't let go, until all of a sudden we had a warmer day and the tub drained just fine. (Our clog was Ice!) When we re-did the bathroom, they packed some insulation around the drain pipes and we haven't seen that particular thing happen again. (Owning a house is never boring!)
I'm at year 5 on a 5 year car battery: I'm glad it started this morning! (It sure wasn't very enthusiastic about it.) Next November: new battery for sure!
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I had to turn on the car AC driving to Huntington Beach California for a job on a lovely day today.Comment
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Well, most of the US is certainly going through it. Fortunately, as of Saturday, we'll be through this. This is the kind of thing you just endure. Do your shopping ahead of time, and just " hunker down" and ride it out.Comment
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It's the weather: doesn't even pay to complain about it, you just anticipate, adapt and muddle through!
-and remember: the first day of Spring is about a month away!Comment
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Yes!!! I already bought 9 more fruit trees and fortunately, they haven't put out they're leaves yet, so we just have them inside, in front of the sliding glass doors, ( as it would be ridiculous to try to plant them outside right now ), waiting for about a month for prime planting weather, ( we have a nice mini orchard started in our large backyard ). The other 9 trees that survived their first year, are just fine, even in these weather conditions, and I look forward, four or five years from now, to having quite a nice crop of fruit, peaches, pears, apples, plums and tangerines!Comment
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Yeahhhh...
Never go to Home Depot on the first warm day of Spring!
-it's easier to pan for gold than find a parking space!Comment
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There's a word for the wise! I actually feel sorry for the other people that may buy the remaining trees at Atwood's ( where I bought them ), as, they were well watered. Well, during these five days, all those pots are going to be deep frozen, killing all those roots. Sadness.Comment
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We think it gets cold here in the UK. I once spent two weeks working in China over New Year (man do they know how to do fireworks! lol!). Minus 10 most days; I mean cold? COLD! None of my "winter" clothes were up to it. Came home with tonsillitis. Serves me right for not doing my homework properly. Still, an amazing experience. Brrr...
We filmed at the Great Wall one day and turned up in our North Face gear. The guys at the gate took one look at us, laughed, and gave us all these huge military style, thick, shoulder to feet coats. Warm, but not easy to film wearing one. But they were right, we'd have literally frozen up there without them!Comment
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20+ years ago we spent a week on Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. This island was part of Japan until the last couple of weeks of WWII, when the Soviet Army stormed down from the north and pretty much shoved the Japanese government and population southward off the Island (The Japanese did something quite similar to the Russians living there less than 50 years earlier, so...) If you got on a boat on the northern coast of Hokkaido and sailed due north, you would find yourself there. It's also where the Soviet fighter jets that shot down KAL-007 took off from.
In the winter it is beastly cold, and this was...February!
Everywhere outside was 5 feet of snow. The sidewalks in town were little canyons. This wasn't really 5 feet of snow, but something more like 8 or 10 that had crunched down under its own weight. The road surfaces wouldn't be pavement again until Springtime, but for now ice. The drivers were used to it and included a little slide in every maneuver. We never saw a collision, they were good at this!
Outside temperatures never got North of 10F (-12C) the entire week. What this means is any moisture the air had tended to freeze outside and we lived in a world of static electricity!
My wife and I developed a procedure for dealing with doorknobs at the hotel. Someone just grabbing the knob took a wicked jolt, but we found a second someone holding the victim's hand felt much less (-greater surface area? -fewer Joules per square centimeter?).
We took turns being the knob-joltee! ("Zzzap!...Ouch!...Damnit!")
I also went to actual Siberia twice for my job: fortunately this was July and August!Comment
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You'd think being a temperate climate that here in the UK we'd be pretty adept at all sorts of weather. The reality is that we're actually pretty hopeless at dealing with any kind of weather! What makes me chuckle; the images on the news of cars in the UK spinning about in a couple of inches of snow.
Most folk here have never heard of winter tyres. Apparently it is law to have them fitted in some parts of Europe over winter months?
A few years back I started using all season tyres which are amazing. I cannot see a down side to them; leave them on all year, no excess wear compared to a summer tyre, quiet, etc. And they drive a front wheel drive car in snow and ice. But mention them to friends or colleagues and just watch that blank look...
Still, I get to laugh at everyone spinning about in snow and ice, with their rock hard frozen summer tyres, unable to drive up the slightest incline. I do remember the first time I had to try them out. Stuck in downhill queue in ice, with everyone terrified to move in case they slid. I watched the 4 wheel drives merrily heading up the hill and I thought, "right, I've got winter tyres...let's turn around and drive off..."
I was so nervous though. Imagine if they hadn't gripped. I'd have looked like the biggest plonker ever. Fortunately they worked a treat.Comment
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Yes, in the distant past real cars could drive in snow and ice. Winter tyres are still about but nobody seems to bother. I think they burn more petrol when you don’t change them. Remember the days you were sent to walking to school and you up to your waist in snow (you were smaller then) and you slid on ice for fun because of you fell you bounced better.
We just have rain or wind days or as they are called now “yellow warning” or “red alert”when everyone hides under the duvet.
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Sadly in the UK, 10 flakes of snow, seems to bring the country to a standstill, with roads blocked by TV crews filming non-existent snow drifts.
Today however it's 15°C
A heatwave 
Probably be a water shortage by Sunday.
At the other end of the temperature scale, several years ago, I flew out to Marbella in early March for a property shoot. It was 17°. Coming from a cold and chilly London, this was T-shirt weather. The two locals from the developers looked on in disbelief at this eccentric Brit, both wearing thick warm jackets.Comment
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It has been pretty cold here as well but no snow so far but have known it to snow here in April of recent years. The wind has made it feel colder for the past few weeks and a lot of rain. So much so the birds are developing webbed feet!! 😉Comment
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