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reminder to texans, if you dig a 5 foot deep hole its pretty warm down there year round if you can cover it with something insulated its like a free 55degf chill out spot and also the digging gets you hot.
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Philly area is now expected to get two inches of rain over Thursday and Friday, followed by temperatures dropping to 9 degrees F overnight. Can't wait to see what the highways look like for Christmas Eve traffic!
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Dec 21, 2022 22:26
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Real hurthling! posted:reminder to texans, if you dig a 5 foot deep hole its pretty warm down there year round if you can cover it with something insulated its like a free 55degf chill out spot and also the digging gets you hot. Lol at the idea that you can dig 5 feet down in Texas. In Austin, you'll hit limestone immediately, and in Houston, you'll hit water.
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Twerk from Home posted:Lol at the idea that you can dig 5 feet down in Texas. In Austin, you'll hit limestone immediately, and in Houston, you'll hit water. east austin is clay heavy black prairie soil. i'm a little more west though, my house is basically sitting on stone. my foundation is terrific and is unmoved after many many decades, but i have no basement and am going to die. many sides
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Dec 21, 2022 22:42
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you can dig 5 feet down if you start 5 feet up
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Twerk from Home posted:Lol at the idea that you can dig 5 feet down in Texas. In Austin, you'll hit limestone immediately, and in Houston, you'll hit water. ridiculous I have it on good authority you can shoot a gun into a hillside and oil pours out
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Iron Crowned posted:
How many levels of snow emergency do we have? Like, if it's 3 out of 50 it might not be so bad, unless we're doing golf rules.
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Real hurthling! posted:reminder to texans, if you dig a 5 foot deep hole its pretty warm down there year round if you can cover it with something insulated its like a free 55degf chill out spot and also the digging gets you hot. 
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oh good, you survived the night  (this is a traditional Canadian greeting btw, said before exchanging toques and complaining about Americans)
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my building sent this but I've never had to do it before and its only going to be like -10 at most anyway so I plan to not follow any of their advice until the eggs on my face as all my pipes freeze then burstquote:EMERGENCY FREEZE NOTICE TO ALL RESIDENTS
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Twerk from Home posted:EVs lose range in the cold, and some cheaper models can burn tons of battery to run the heater, but when you get down to that cold a gas car will struggle to start and an EV will start at the press of a button like normal. This is mostly wrong. EV batteries start to lose capacity to deliver charge at around 10C/50F, but they also undergo a drastic collapse at 0C/32F internal battery temperature. So the car has to keep the battery warmed up, and this consumes power, even when not driving. Give the same power to a gas car, and it'll start better. Any gas car meant for climates where this is ordinary has had engine heaters for the past several decades, though gas cars don't have big internal batteries for the energy and need to be plugged in. On the upside, you don't have to run the engine heater all the time, only shortly before you intend to start the car. Anything to the contrary is electric car manufacturer propaganda.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:26 degrees in 3 minutes drat the day after tomorrow was a documentary https://twitter.com/Jeff_Piotrowski/status/1605679462665764866 https://twitter.com/NWSCheyenne/status/1605667970667069440
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lol the local sites are full of "electric cars work fine in the cold" claims from people selling them, and every practical experience of using electric cars during a cold snap is "the ones that start have a third of the range, not that many of them even start". Consume your way toward absolution! Everything will be perfect if you buy this answer to your problems!
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goochtit posted:the scenes where they run away from the encroaching freeze will be vindicated yet
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goochtit posted:the scenes where they run away from the encroaching freeze will be vindicated yet Jeeeeeeeeeef
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it was cold in hawaii for a few days, like sub 70F, but now it's back to normal
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SirPablo posted:Just don't go anywhere 
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can't slip and bust your rear end (or freeze to death) if you don't go outside
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A Bakers Cousin posted:love to take walks in the 40s while the weather app is yelling at me that its about to be negative youre going to die 
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That's (freezing) fog not dust.
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this is some incredible poo poo
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chilly haboob
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A habrrrr
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a strange fowl posted:chilly haboob sibling of chilly willy?
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Benagain posted:A habrrrr
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Gripweed posted:I gotta say, I'm genuinely kinda pissed now. Until 2021 people on the coast in Texas didn't have experience with freezing weather. We'd get the occasional frost, but never a deep freeze like that. Most people didn't have wrapped pipes because why the gently caress would you pay money to have your pipes wrapped? So when the forecasts started calling for this serious cold, we didn't know what to do. And whether or not you leave your taps running was a topic that came up a lot. I specifically remember talking to multiple people about whether or not you're supposed to leave your taps running and they said they'd heard some people say you should and some people say you shouldn't. And in that situation, most people default to no action. Are you somehow backwards extrapolating recent posts from this thread to explain people’s pipes bursting in the Texas fiasco? Chill out, touch grass, etc
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Benagain posted:A habrrrr 
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I’m in Arizona and my backyard outdoor spigot runs thru the ceiling and down the wall. if it’s too cold I’m not cracking a faucet or whatever I’m shutting off the water because it’s ridiculous to assume this house would survive a hard freeze
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Gripweed posted:I gotta say, I'm genuinely kinda pissed now. Until 2021 people on the coast in Texas didn't have experience with freezing weather. We'd get the occasional frost, but never a deep freeze like that. Most people didn't have wrapped pipes because why the gently caress would you pay money to have your pipes wrapped? So when the forecasts started calling for this serious cold, we didn't know what to do. And whether or not you leave your taps running was a topic that came up a lot. I specifically remember talking to multiple people about whether or not you're supposed to leave your taps running and they said they'd heard some people say you should and some people say you shouldn't. And in that situation, most people default to no action. good. I hope everyone in Texas had their pipes freeze.
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SirPablo posted:Just don't go anywhere
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Cygna posted:Philly area is now expected to get two inches of rain over Thursday and Friday, followed by temperatures dropping to 9 degrees F overnight. Can't wait to see what the highways look like for Christmas Eve traffic! as a philadelphian, that kicks rear end
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hey ya wanna know 'bout chilly haboobs, just meet my ex-wife!
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God right hooking America.
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Real hurthling! posted:reminder to texans, if you dig a 5 foot deep hole its pretty warm down there year round if you can cover it with something insulated its like a free 55degf chill out spot and also the digging gets you hot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJfcnIFYqg
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