Winter storm thread

[Chaotic42]

This is -22C. 2C colder than my deep freezer

 

[IronWing]

Houses lost to the sea from September through yesterday, Buxton, NC. Three more yet to be added from last night and this morning.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that build on a beach. Roll the dice, and hope you win, but the house is now on steroids.

 

[waffleironhead]

I had one building almost freeze during this cold spell, and one freeze solid.
Got a cold alert warning from my honeywell first alert app. Building had reaches 55*, so headed the hour drive to check on it. Unit was calling for heat, but the boiler wasnt kicking in. Probably an air bubble or something stalling flow rate. Dunno. Shut down and started back up.
Two days later my milkhouse heater decided to not work, the thermostat is sometimes weird at lower temps. I forgot, and set it at 50. Well it didnt kick in. This houses my pressure tank, a washer and tankless water heater. Thought i was going to be out thousands. Only had to replace a whole house water filter and one copper 90 that burst. Turns out gas tankless have a freeze protection, so it was turning itself on. Also the washer had pumped empty, so no frozen lines there.

 

[IronWing]

I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that build on a beach. Roll the dice, and hope you win, but the house is now on steroids.

The prices of the houses on the next row back just doubled. 😛

Except they have to figure out how to get to them since their street is now under the new dune. 🙁

 

[Chaotic42]

I don't have a lot of sympathy for people that build on a beach. Roll the dice, and hope you win, but the house is now on steroids.

Being from southern Louisiana, I love the area I grew up in, but they shouldn't allow residential construction in anything worse than a 1,000 year flood zone.

 

[MrSquished]

28 here today and nice and sunny. feels like an early spring day compared to what we've been having. But it's going to get colder again - wtf.

 

[IronWing]

I updated the middle picture to account for two of the houses from yesterday. The one from this morning is just out of the photos.

 

[iRONic]

Being from southern Louisiana, I love the area I grew up in, but they shouldn't allow residential construction in anything worse than a 1,000 year flood zone.

I used to fly out of Cameron, LA for crew changes on my offshore rig. Cameron is gone!

 

[IronWing]

I used to fly out of Cameron, LA for crew changes on my offshore rig. Cameron is gone!

I looked up Cameron on Google Earth. Using the way back machine to see the difference between 2004 and 2005 is educational. Katrina did a number on the town. Seeing the new LPG terminal suggests that the lesson didn't stick.

 

[Charmonium]

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Works great for ridding the driveway of weeds and such.

Yup, sooo awesome. just stay upwind of it or you'll get a low to intermediate case of CO poisoning. Very unpleasant - you know, with not being able to breathe normally and such