Space City weather seems to think so: https://spacecityweather.com/could-the-houston-area-see-snow-on-sunday-the-answer-is-somewhat-complicated/
Decent Chance of Snow or Wintry Precipitation This Weekend?
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A five car pileup just happened solely based on the possibility.
WRAP YOUR PIPES!!!
Wrap your pets and bring your pipes in.
How does this work during a pandemic? Do the Brendas just log off early since the (im)probable weak ass snow could freeze the internet lines?
that's solid advice no matter what the temperature isTarponChaser said:
WRAP YOUR PIPES!!!
If you aren't sure which pipe to wrap, the correct answer remains, all of them. Saw this before a forecasted freeze a few years back in a neighborhood I was working in at the time.
I love how they only wrapped the pipe going to the house. I would be worried about the supply line rupturing and having a gas leak.
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must not have turned their hazard lights on.ptothemo said:
A five car pileup just happened solely based on the possibility.
I might be wrong, but why wrap a natural gas line? And why would you be concerned it would rupture?
That was the jokeAgFlyGuy said:
I might be wrong, but why wrap a natural gas line? And why would you be concerned it would rupture?
Still relevant.
You didn't do so good in physics class did you?FHKChE07 said:
I love how they only wrapped the pipe going to the house. I would be worried about the supply line rupturing and having a gas leak.
Yeah, I know. I'm not a moron.
Nope. The stupid pipe insurance mailers have made it clear that's the gas company's problem.
Am I the only one who uses the lighter test to see if the gas is frozen?
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So in recent years, there was a story about during one of the polar vortexes, farmers in Alberta were lighting straw fires under their propane tanks because it was too cold to vaporize the gas so they couldn't have their backup heat. That takes things a little bit further than I would like too.
Meh.
Does it really ever get cold enough to need to wrap pipes? How cold does it need to be for how long for pipe freezing to be an issue of concern?
BMX Bandit said:
Does it really ever get cold enough to need to wrap pipes? How cold does it need to be for how long for pipe freezing to be an issue of concern?
Every few years there is a cold spell that will take out basically every unwrapped/undrained sprinkler PVB. They go down before anything else. Teens or low 20s seems to do it quick, or an extended stretch of upper 20s. Once maybe ten years ago it didnt warm above freezing for 2 days and a quarter of the neighborhood had rivers going down their driveway.
Three years ago when it froze, so many PVBs ruptured in my neighboorhood that it was affecting my water pressure in my house. I roamed around the neighborhood in freezing weather turning off as many as I could find.
rilloaggie said:
If you aren't sure which pipe to wrap, the correct answer remains, all of them. Saw this before a forecasted freeze a few years back in a neighborhood I was working in at the time.
You must be confused about that picture, they are not worried about the freeze they are stopping the gas leak.
SJEAg said:BMX Bandit said:
Does it really ever get cold enough to need to wrap pipes? How cold does it need to be for how long for pipe freezing to be an issue of concern?
Every few years there is a cold spell that will take out basically every unwrapped/undrained sprinkler PVB. They go down before anything else. Teens or low 20s seems to do it quick, or an extended stretch of upper 20s. Once maybe ten years ago it didnt warm above freezing for 2 days and a quarter of the neighborhood had rivers going down their driveway.
There were quite a few in my hood when we had that ice in December and again in January a couple of years ago. Went out for my morning walk, and several neighbors had geysers in their side yards.
What was that...2017-2018?
rilloaggie said:
If you aren't sure which pipe to wrap, the correct answer remains, all of them. Saw this before a forecasted freeze a few years back in a neighborhood I was working in at the time.
I have a family friend who was renting to a neurosurgeon at TMC. She told him to wrap his pipes, and on a intuitive whim, stopped by the house to see if he had done so... only to find out that he had wrapped the downspouts on the gutters.
AgFlyGuy said:
I might be wrong, but why wrap a natural gas line? And why would you be concerned it would rupture?
You gotta keep it from pulling vacuum and imploding.
I've had the water in the pipes freeze when I lived in an old pier and beam house in Rice Military w/ no central heat. But never had anything burst from that. Just took a while to get running water again.BMX Bandit said:
Does it really ever get cold enough to need to wrap pipes? How cold does it need to be for how long for pipe freezing to be an issue of concern?
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Radar showing snow but just hard cold rain in the heights.
Yeah, pulled up my phone and the forecast seems a little overly hopeful
Says heavy snow on phone but just sleet up in spring. Seems it won't make it far enough south to get snow
Freezing rain in kingwood
I could make an ice ball from the buildup on my car hood
I could make an ice ball from the buildup on my car hood
Sleet in Livingston area. Started early afternoon.
I'm so ready for Spring.
I'm so ready for Spring.
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