Text 14877, 109 rader
Skriven 2014-05-05 12:52:21 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 14841 av John Guillory (1:396/60)
Ärende: Right up your, errrr,
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Greetings John!


 RW>  JG>>      And not to mention that for the first time in years,
 RW>> Ummmm, it didn't snow in Brownsville, it just got colder than
 RW>> normal.

 JG>      When I first moved to Mississippi, I couldn't understand why no
 JG> one wanted a snow day.

The same here, when I first moved to California...I even made a day-trip
out of it to actually be in the snow in the mountains to the east of San
Diego. I soon got over that notion and observed the snow on the mountain
tops from the nice warm beaches...even that only lasted a minute or so
while I spread my towel on the sand, setup my beach chair and began to
observe the lovelies in bikinis running along the shore...

 JG> ...  After about the third one last year.... I well understand why
 JG> you could get SICK AND TIRED OF THEM!  I mean, don't get me wrong,
 JG> when you see snow once every 20 years, its all nice, and the snow was
 JG> rather thick this year.   So thick, it's the first time I could hear
 JG> the snow "Crunch" as I walked in it!

That's frozen snow, it actually tried to melt first.

 JG> Normally it just metls!  In fact, I've got a few pictures where the
 JG> snow was so fast and hard that all you see is a streak of light where
 JG> the snow was moving faster than the camera could snap the picture.

I have a set of photos when one of those northers' sent freezing rain our
way. That lasted until noon and it was gone.

 JG> But especially, when your using those little small 1' tall heaters to
 JG> warm each room individually... You really don't need that many snow
 JG> and ice days!

Shhhhh. You'll make the northers' feel left out and jealous, not having a
furnace and all.

 RW>> That'd be the eastern-southern states along the coast; east of
 RW>> Texas.

 JG>      Ooops Sorry, guess I wasn't counting Texas as a state of the
 JG> United States because of the Illegal Mexicans.... ;-)

That's ok, it is a lie anyway. Texas is a Republic that was admitted to
the Union, but remains a Republic within the state. In fact, our state's
AG kicked the EPA out of here on principal.

 JG> Would be a funny thing to do on your sign... Put up one of those
 JG> population signs.... "Welcome to Texas, Legal Population 20, Illegal
 JG> Population 3 million!  Please leave your green card at the border."

Actually, if they can manage it, they move on to other states, such as
Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Florida when they get the money to
travel. They've even migrated to such places as Chicago and Denver, etc..

 RW>> How many cold and snowy days were there compared to the warmer than
 RW>> usual 'climate change' days? How about last year.

 JG>      It previouisly would snow over here (Mississippi) once a year,
 JG> around January, shortly after Christmas.

Hmmmm. Where does Xmas come after January?

 JG>  In Westlake, where I'm from it normally snows once every 20 years,
 JG> but even they got 2-3 snow days.  I think we got about 4 snow days
 JG> over here, and every time you turned around it was freezing for the
 JG> longest time.  In fact.  My Brother-in-law had all the pipes on his
 JG> trailer bust, he fixed it.

The hardware stores have water pipe heaters now.

 JG> We had 1 water pipe going to the water faucet outside on the far
 JG> north end of the trailer bust.  I got a new connector, re-connected
 JG> it...  Fairly simple fix.  Next week, Busted again! I fixed it
 JG> again...  Small Leak.  Figured why worry about it, it would keep the
 JG> thing from freezing with the water constantly running, right?

Only if it was a trickle and not a slow dribble leak.

 JG>  I also left the water running inside... Same pipe busted again!  My
 JG> Brother-in-law's hot water heater busted!  He shut off all the water
 JG> to the trailer, and said he drained the tank before it busted, but
 JG> apparently he had water some where!  I decided that time, I was going
 JG> to fix the friggen pipe good this time!  I went to the far other end
 JG> of the trailer, and cut the pipe off as far back as I could, put a
 JG> cap on and sealed it good... Checked for leaks... None!  Ran the
 JG> water on the cold nights and haven't had any more busted pipes
 JG> again.... All I know is Im sick and tired of fixing busted pipes!

A friend of mine works for a 'cable' making company and they make cables
that also have water pipes in them. Up north where I grew up, water pipes
are buried in the ground below the frost line. They don't freeze because
they enter the house through the basement floor. For those who have water
pipes above ground, as in Flagstaff, AZ, they sell water pipe 'heaters',
which is what my friend makes for places that run cable w/water lines
above ground. He says you can buy that heater at a hardware store and use
it when the temps are predicted to be low enough to freeze yours. That'll
save you a lot of money, time, work and frustration...


    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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