Sassy and I got up early for breakfast. She went out in the snow and will probably expect a walk in an hour or two. We get up before the birds.
We have a temperature of 0 degrees and more snow predicted. We should be above freezing in seven days, with rain predicted. Almost everything is closed today and Tuesday-Wednesday look snowy too.
We had a copper pipe freeze and split in New Ulm, Minnesota, so I was anxious to avoid that here. I did some extra reading and learned this -
- Water frozen in pipes is not the main problem. Thawing and splitting is. Running the water taps, hot and cold, can relieve the pressure from the thawing ice.
- Plastic pipes freeze later than copper. Yay! - we have plastic.
- Extra measures include dripping the hot and cold taps wherever the cold can reach in and freeze pipes.
- Kitchen and bathroom cupboard doors should be left open during cold spells like this.
The renter's agent phoned us about frozen pipes, two days after we were practicing safe sinks. She was pleased and said, "You two are always ahead of the game."
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