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Old 2007-01-13, 01:22 AM   #1
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I was just driving outside, it is 3F according to the last thermometer I saw. This is the coldest temp I have ever been in. My hands still hurt from trying to steer on the way home.
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Old 2007-01-13, 02:14 AM   #2
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It *is* cold.
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Old 2007-01-13, 04:18 AM   #3
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That's nothing, two years ago, when we had that really cold winter. I remember driving home late one night, it was zero degrees F. Not to mention my car didn't have a driver side window, so not only was it freezing, but I had snow in my pants.
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Old 2007-01-13, 08:03 AM   #4
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but I had snow in my pants.
brutall, I have seen a couple of -5*f and all the way down to -12*f. Your boogers instantly freeze, It's ridiculous.
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Old 2007-01-13, 08:05 AM   #5
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That's nothing, two years ago, when we had that really cold winter. I remember driving home late one night, it was zero degrees F. Not to mention my car didn't have a driver side window, so not only was it freezing, but I had snow in my pants.
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Old 2007-01-13, 08:53 AM   #6
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It's as cold as a witch's titty...

...in a brass bra...

...doing push-ups in the snow...

...in the middle of January...







...with air conditioning!
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Old 2007-01-13, 09:30 AM   #7
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...while chewing winterfresh gum...
..and eating dry ice chips...
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Old 2007-01-13, 10:28 AM   #8
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the evo mini battery did not hold up to the cold yesterday after work.

*off to buy a jump box today*

ugh.
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Old 2007-01-13, 12:53 PM   #9
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sucks about the battery. Being stranded FTL...
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Old 2007-01-13, 01:02 PM   #10
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fatass walmart battery FTW
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Old 2007-01-13, 01:18 PM   #11
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My thermometer recorded -2F last night.

Tyson, you should just get an Orbital or Optima for that thing... you don't really need the race battery do you?
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Old 2007-01-13, 03:43 PM   #12
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Haven't had a probelm with my little Odyssey Battery. *knock on wood* This is the 2nd winter I've run it.
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Old 2007-01-13, 04:15 PM   #13
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My thermometer recorded -2F last night.

Tyson, you should just get an Orbital or Optima for that thing... you don't really need the race battery do you?
It is an Optima(small), but anyways.

Yeah I'll have to redo the whole catch can setup if I want to go back to standard size battery.

I guess I'll have them re-do it when I get everything else done.
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Old 2007-01-14, 11:37 AM   #14
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Last night, 3 people I know had pipes freeze and burst. And then when we were trying to get the water off for one of them, the water spraying out would freeze in like 2 minutes. If I stood in one place for long enough I'd get stuck to the concrete. Twas nutty.
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Old 2007-01-14, 12:26 PM   #15
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pipe freeze is da wurst!

just ruins your whole week.
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Old 2007-01-14, 01:09 PM   #16
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We have a secondary pump that charges the pressure tank from the well's holding tank --- the geniuses that installed it put it right on the concrete floor of the wellhouse. Not so bad, except it is controlled by a 1.5ft long piece of 1/4" I.D. running off the main line to a pressure-sensing diaphram that throws the relay for the 110v.

With that tiny, uninsulated, no-flow line running next to the floor, it doesn't matter how high I crank the heater in the room when temps hit 0 --- frozen! So, last night I was out there squirming between filters and pipes to slap some heat tape on that baby. We still have water, must have worked.
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