dahouse said:
Water started flowing at 4:18! I'm not turning the faucet off
Icepocalypse watch 2022/2023
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Dad calls asking how I was holding out, he asked if I had unhooked my water hoses and wrapped my exterior faucets. Said yes, yes, ohhh *****... completely forgot about the SE outdoor faucet and hose. Luckily I still had foam insulation still on it from '21..
Kenneth_2003 said:
No need to worry about frozen pipes when your water supplier can't provide water to your entire neighborhood every time it gets cold!!!
Do we live in the same neighborhood? The dumbasses that manage our community well didn't protect the pipes and it froze again. Now we have iced tea flowing and a boil water notice.
My neighborhood is serviced by Aqua, a nationwide municipal water and wastewater servicing company. I thought our system was on a well, but I've recently learned that we actually get water from the CoH via North Harris County Regional Water Authority, but our system is then managed by these Yankee losers.Cromagnum said:Kenneth_2003 said:
No need to worry about frozen pipes when your water supplier can't provide water to your entire neighborhood every time it gets cold!!!
Do we live in the same neighborhood? The dumbasses that manage our community well didn't protect the pipes and it froze again. Now we have iced tea flowing and a boil water notice.
They'll put us under a boil notice again once they get some useless twit off their a** to get the water flowing again. And then I'm sure they'll raise my bill again!
My neighbor has both spigots running on the outside of his house. I think he's home but not sure. His dog is outside in the back yard.
Is this something someone would do or are they likely busted spigots from the freeze?
I know I should go knock on his door but I don't know him at all.
Is this something someone would do or are they likely busted spigots from the freeze?
I know I should go knock on his door but I don't know him at all.
Only one way to know. Go look.
And throw his dog an old comforter.
And throw his dog an old comforter.
That dog needs to be indoors.
It's illegal to leave pets outside in below freezing temps in Houston. If he's home and that dog is outside tonight, I'd call the cops on him. Absolutely zero reason for that dog to be outside while it's 15 ****ing degrees overnight.
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Go knock on his door if the dog is still outside. If he doesnt answer, get the dog yourself. Dont let the dog suffer. Then go shut off his spigots if he's not home.Frok said:
My neighbor has both spigots running on the outside of his house. I think he's home but not sure. His dog is outside in the back yard.
Is this something someone would do or are they likely busted spigots from the freeze?
I know I should go knock on his door but I don't know him at all.
Okay glad I went over there. He didn't know they were running…..which is weird because they turned off fine.
Dog is inside now.
Dog is inside now.
The Last Cobra Commander said:
Nope
Like he said...No reason for the dog to be outside for any length of time tonight. Zero.
Glad he went and checked on things.
Hmmmm
Now @CenterPoint is out with an email asking people to conserve natural gas pic.twitter.com/2MNLeYrRTw
— John Wayne Ferguson (@JohnWFerguson) December 24, 2022
I think those companies made a bad bet on energy prices and are trying to get to 10pm when it looks like there will be an overabundance of supply.
AgLiving06 said:
I think those companies made a bad bet on energy prices and are trying to get to 10pm when it looks like there will be an overabundance of supply.
I think the gas companies in and around Austin are in full pucker mode now. Probably sending that out to be on the safe side.
Irish 2.0 said:
It's illegal to leave pets outside in below freezing temps in Houston. If he's home and that dog is outside tonight, I'd call the cops on him. Absolutely zero reason for that dog to be outside while it's 15 ****ing degrees overnight.
Is this an ordinance? Had not heard that. I know state law requires "adequate shelter"
Not an issue for my dog. No way he goes outside and be seen in the Christmas sweater my wife put on him.
This lady is in alignment with my thoughts on why they were asking people to conserve. It's a 5 parter.
So grid conditions are a little tighter now than they have been today -- about 4,250 megawatts online right now. But electricity retailers are asking customers to conserve power.
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) December 24, 2022
That's not necessarily because there's an issue within ERCOT 1/
State law requires "adequate shelter"
Anyone else have a dog that loves cold weather? He keeps wanting to go out back, and I keep having to badger him to come back in before we get reported to Fur Baby Protective Services. He finally pooped and peed this time, so I can go back to ignoring him for a while.
And outside is not "adequate shelter."BMX Bandit said:
State law requires "adequate shelter"
Harry Lime said:
Anyone else have a dog that loves cold weather? He keeps wanting to go out back, and I keep having to badger him to come back in before we get reported to Fur Baby Protective Services. He finally pooped and peed this time, so I can go back to ignoring him for a while.
My dog is like this too. Keeps scratching at door to go out. Usually when it's in the 50s or so I just leave him out there with a bowl of water, but today I've been letting him out for about 15 min on an Alexa timer and then yelling at him to come back in for about an hour or so. At night I give him 10 minutes.
Something I thought of for tonight…many dishwashers have a delay start option (ours has 2,4,8 hours). I'm going to go to bed around midnight tonight and put my dishwasher on a 2 hour delay. It takes a good 1.5 hours to run its cycle, so it should be good until morning and pumping hot water through the pipes.
I'd like to thank my builder, Trendmaker (now Tripoint) for this awesome outdoor tankless water heater setup. This is after I defrosted it and then removed their half assed insulation to add heat trace.
rangerdanger said:Harry Lime said:
Anyone else have a dog that loves cold weather? He keeps wanting to go out back, and I keep having to badger him to come back in before we get reported to Fur Baby Protective Services. He finally pooped and peed this time, so I can go back to ignoring him for a while.
My dog is like this too. Keeps scratching at door to go out. Usually when it's in the 50s or so I just leave him out there with a bowl of water, but today I've been letting him out for about 15 min on an Alexa timer and then yelling at him to come back in for about an hour or so. At night I give him 10 minutes.
My dog should be an outdoors dog but she thinks she's human and gets pissed if she's left out 30 seconds after she does her business.
Mine won't even walk in the grass and just dumps on the most convenient concrete.
aTm2004 said:
Something I thought of for tonight…many dishwashers have a delay start option (ours has 2,4,8 hours). I'm going to go to bed around midnight tonight and put my dishwasher on a 2 hour delay. It takes a good 1.5 hours to run its cycle, so it should be good until morning and pumping hot water through the pipes.
I started mine last night around 12:30 before heading to bed
jg07 said:
I'd like to thank my builder, Trendmaker (now Tripoint) for this awesome outdoor tankless water heater setup. This is after I defrosted it and then removed their half assed insulation to add heat trace.
lol holy **** but why did you buy it
Wtf
Because I'm an idiot. I didn't fully understand what it was underneath the insulation. They acted like it was a new free upgrade. Plumbing is not something I was familiar with at the time.
and add another project to the list that I'll never do because getting a good installer is prohibitively expensive
Lol got the dog police out. This thread has it all.
rangerdanger said:Harry Lime said:
Anyone else have a dog that loves cold weather? He keeps wanting to go out back, and I keep having to badger him to come back in before we get reported to Fur Baby Protective Services. He finally pooped and peed this time, so I can go back to ignoring him for a while.
My dog is like this too. Keeps scratching at door to go out. Usually when it's in the 50s or so I just leave him out there with a bowl of water, but today I've been letting him out for about 15 min on an Alexa timer and then yelling at him to come back in for about an hour or so. At night I give him 10 minutes.
Can't drag my dog outside in the summer. Have to drag him inside now.
Funny thing is my 2 year old son is constantly asking to go outside right now as well. Out there playing basketball and freezing my balls out with him.
Wonder if nextdoor would be more upset with me leaving my son or dog out there….
Ryan the Temp said:And outside is not "adequate shelter."BMX Bandit said:
State law requires "adequate shelter"
If you have a big enough dog house it is.
This is tge state law though. Irish mentioned Houston. May be a more stringent law
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