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Icepocalypse watch 2022/2023
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TarponChaser said:maroon barchetta said:CDUB98 said:gougler08 said:
Just in time for Christmas!
Eff me. Going to my parents' place in Amarillo for Christmas this year.
Pack for a week.
Bring some canned food and bottled water.
And all the bleach you can carry
Have a truck, so I'll bring an entire pallet.
Are we talking about Amarillo, VT? Or...?CDUB98 said:
You get 4 seasons
Looks like Christmas in the Tine is gonna be...
CHEEL-LY
CHEEL-LY
Seersucker Ag 2011 said:
Looks like Christmas in the Tine is gonna be...
CHEEL-LY
Yo mama so fat, that when she heard it was chilly outside, she grabbed a spoon.
Don't forget toilet paper. Even though most people around Amarillo have outhouses and use corncobs or magazine pages.maroon barchetta said:
Pack for a week.
Bring some canned food and bottled water.
Update
GFS model currently shows no ice or snow near Houston thru Christmas Eve.
Always ready for a good weather dork fight on the Houston board!
David Happymountain said:
Always ready for a good weather dork fight on the Houston board!
Come at me bro!!
CDUB98 said:
I really do miss that versus the oppressive heat and humidity of Houston, but I don't have much of a desire to move back there.
I always say, it's a good place to be from. No idea what adults do there for fun.
I miss the cold nights, even when it's 100 during the day you get a break. My least favorite thing about houston are the nights it barely gets below 80.
The cold weather packing tips have me laughing. Anytime I drive to the scrilla in the winter my mom recommends packing blankets, candles, and peanut butter so I can survive in the event I get entombed in a snow drift for days.
aTm2004 said:Sea Speed said:
Related, but I bought a home with a sprinkler system for the first time ever and will be going out of town for a while. Isn't there some stuff I need to do?
Go turn off the water at the back flow preventer today, then turn the screw near it (little nipple things on the left of the image below) so the water in the lines drains/shoots out. I take an old towel and wrap it around it and then tape it on, and then cover the whole thing with a large garbage bag to keep it dry. Has worked well for 12 years and 2 houses.
I don't have one of those thingies. My sprinkler worked fine after the last winter storm.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
Cromagnum said:
If you dont have a BFP on your sprinkler system, its not installed correctly
schmellba99 said:
If you dont have a BFP on your sprinkler system, its not installed correctly
IDK. Maybe it's underground? Or maybe I don't have one. I suspect my sprinkler lines are cleaner than the supply lines anyway.
94chem,
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
That, sir, was the greatest post in the history of TexAgs. I salute you. -- Dough
It's basically a device you have to eat the cost of the keep the city's subpar mechanical systems that are prone to failure from creating an issue where your sprinkler system siphons dog turd steeped water back into the supply.
I wouldn't worry about it. Everyone should be filtering their water anyway and it's not like it's going taste any worse.
I wouldn't worry about it. Everyone should be filtering their water anyway and it's not like it's going taste any worse.
I wish this forecast had some legs to it, but with 0 talk anywhere else this far out… it's probably gonna be in the 80's for Christmas, let's just be honest
Harvey was about the only serious weather situation that validated more than a week out and even that was 9 days. 15 days is still a serious guessing game by the models with limited and erroneous data feeding it. **** in equals **** out. It's going to bounce around until it has enough data to start to converge on a solution.
No serious or self respecting meteorologist is going to do anything more than keep part of one eye on it for now. It's a non issue for now.
No serious or self respecting meteorologist is going to do anything more than keep part of one eye on it for now. It's a non issue for now.
self respecting meteorologist
StillNotAnAggie said:Cromagnum said:
We'll call it Winter Storm Carla.
https://instagr.am/p/Catny5juO2-
You live in Kingwood and your system was installed before COH annexation - so it wasn't required....neither of my two houses in Kingwood have had a BFP.94chem said:schmellba99 said:
If you dont have a BFP on your sprinkler system, its not installed correctly
IDK. Maybe it's underground? Or maybe I don't have one. I suspect my sprinkler lines are cleaner than the supply lines anyway.
I got a water softener installed this year and it sits outside. Any of y'all have ideas to protect it? Was thinking of covering with a tarp and using a heat lamp, if I have power of course.
Moving blanket wrapped around it, with one of these wrapped on it underneath the blanket. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Frost-King-12-ft-Electric-Heat-Cable-Kit-HC12A/100032792
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Bypass it, then drain it. Probably still wrapping with a big blanket is a good idea. Some kind of heat source is not a bad idea either. Drop lights with old incandescent bulbs worked well. Not sure how to find those anymore.
Buy an electric blanket to wrap around it, then put a tarp loosely over that.
Let me know when a 5 day forecast with something to fret over comes out.
Forecasts this far out are about as useful as a knitted condom.
Forecasts this far out are about as useful as a knitted condom.
My grandmother (RIP) had hosted Christmas Eve at her house from the mid 1960s. She announced on Christmas Even 2004 at age 84 that it was going to be her last one, and when we opened the door to start leaving, it was snowing outside. Unreal memory.maroon barchetta said:aTm2004 said:
I remember the snow on Christmas Eve in 2004. Would love to have it again.
Best Christmas ever. That was fantastic.
Even if there is some sort of freeze, how f'ing cold do we think it is going to get to have to use external heat to supplement a regular pipe wrap?aTm2004 said:
Buy an electric blanket to wrap around it, then put a tarp loosely over that.
I'm thinking about a repeat of what we had in '21.
The Porkchop Express said:My grandmother (RIP) had hosted Christmas Eve at her house from the mid 1960s. She announced on Christmas Even 2004 at age 84 that it was going to be her last one, and when we opened the door to start leaving, it was snowing outside. Unreal memory.maroon barchetta said:aTm2004 said:
I remember the snow on Christmas Eve in 2004. Would love to have it again.
Best Christmas ever. That was fantastic.
We couldn't go to sleep. My neighbor and I were playing out in the street like little kids.
The next morning we went straight outside. Didn't open gifts until probably 11am and my son was young at the time and he didn't care about presents, he wanted to play in the snow!
We then went to Galveston to see my mom and saw snowmen on the sea wall. It was memorable.
Ah yes, the white Christmas of 2004 on the gulf coat was ruined for many Aggie fans a week later when Fran's team had its sh t pushed in by UT in the Cotton Bowl.
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