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Bill Masen...you forgot about Greta, too
More than dripping, a constant lite stream.Does anyone know if you need to keep your faucets dripping ( if it’s freezing outside) if you have power in your home and it’s warm.
thanksMore than dripping, a constant lite stream.
I went up in my garage attic and found that none of my pipes are covered. I also have no insulation up there..other than a spray coating of radiant barrier. My coworker had her pipes burst (she was staying with her mom) in a two hour time, there was an unbelievable amount of damage.
The home improvement stores are out of everything. We did place an order on Amazon forGet lagging and insulating I suggest and stay safe.
We would put the heating pad down under our feet (Warm feet = comfort). Also, if you have a wool stocking cap, wear it to bed. Most body heat is lost through the head. It helps!Thanks! We did exactly as you suggested. The heating pad across the two of us and all the blankets on top. It worked out very well.
Good for you! We have a saying here in Montana," Closing the barn door after the horse get out." SincerelyThe home improvement stores are out of everything. We did place an order on Amazon for
2 thermal sleeping bags (good for life up to below -15)
2 new LED lamps (my current ones eat batteries way too quickly)
A tool to shut off water valve
2 indoor/ outdoor thermometers
1 more space heater
1 portable charger generator
None of it will be here in time, but it will help for next time
We also plan to get a light installed in the garage attic
Pipes insulated
and a new electrical outlet in the garage to handle bigger electrical equipment
We actually did wear hats to sleep. I felt like a homeless person in a hat and the blankets pulled up to my nose, but hey, it worked.We would put the heating pad down under our feet (Warm feet = comfort). Also, if you have a wool stocking cap, wear it to bed. Most body heat is lost through the head. It helps!
We have a green towel wrapped on the pipe outside in the backyard.I know back in the day my dad would wrap exposed pipes outside with old rags and newspapers help insulate with a black garbage bag on top. Think something like that would help if you have those items available. Right now we even have a heat lamp plugged in under the house for the North East kitchen sink pipes. That the only one that has been effected so far. We have copper pipes here.
Married a Viking girl. One thing I noticed is that they look good in anything, or nothing.-12 C here, could be worse as Feb. usually is the coldest, but it cold enough to wear my fur hat and not care anything about how my hair looks
We use both oak and pecan for smoking purposes since they are both native here. The oak can be found easily but a treat is the pecan. Both of these are picked up for free. Just got to keep an eye out for trees on the side of the road or dead ones that need to be taken down. Normally if you ask the home owner, they are more than happy for you to either take down to haul or just haul away instead of waiting for the county to come pick it up for them.What kind of wood do you have? Mesquite? I pay a dollar per pound to buy mesquite for my smoker!
At this point whatever it takes to stay warm do!We actually did wear hats to sleep. I felt like a homeless person in a hat and the blankets pulled up to my nose, but hey, it worked.
I just double checked 4 # $8.00; And it just lays on the ground and you just haul it away? Treasure!We use both oak and pecan for smoking purposes since they are both native here. The oak can be found easily but a treat is the pecan. Both of these are picked up for free. Just got to keep an eye out for trees on the side of the road or dead ones that need to be taken down. Normally if you ask the home owner, they are more than happy for you to either take down to haul or just haul away instead of waiting for the county to come pick it up for them.
I thought that $1 a pound was expensive for mesquite so wanted to check with our local store. (Why I waited till I could get on the big computer tonight before I answered)
192 cu inch Mesquite Smoking Chips $3.03 - dosent say what the poundage is.
720 cu inch Mesquite Wood Chunks $6.15
30 lbs mesquite cooking logs $8.22
The home improvement stores are out of everything. We did place an order on Amazon for
2 thermal sleeping bags (good for life up to below -15)
2 new LED lamps (my current ones eat batteries way too quickly)
A tool to shut off water valve
2 indoor/ outdoor thermometers
1 more space heater
1 portable charger generator
None of it will be here in time, but it will help for next time
We also plan to get a light installed in the garage attic
Pipes insulated
and a new electrical outlet in the garage to handle bigger electrical equipment
We have a lot of choke cherry and wild apple trees around here. Both make excellent smoking wood. We also have vine maples around the springs, but haven't tried them for smoking yet. My son has a lot of alder on his place that he brings sometimes. Alder is best for fish.When the weather gets better and you see a guy dressed in camo, in a pickup truck, with Montana plates and a gun rack with a hugely overloaded bed of mesquite tied down with baling twine, wave, that will be me.
So hunny is telling me this was a "clitch: in the system and if you get a bill like this just ignore. . . Think I would still call. . .We are on a fixed monthly rate. This is scary for the ones who aren't though. . . .
https://www.wfaa.com/article/money/...torm/287-14a54a65-39cb-4d1c-931c-0d003002f529'How in the world can anyone pay that?': Some seeing electric bills as high as $17K in wake of Texas winter storm
If you were on a variable or indexed plan, your rate — and therefore, your electric bill — may have skyrocketed.
DALLAS — The Texas power outage has become the Texas power outrage. Electricity supply and demand in Texas has really stabilized now. But when it was grossly out of whack over the past several days, the cost of power in the wholesale market went crazy. It went from about $50 per Megawatt to $9,000. That didn’t affect retail many customers because they were on a fixed-rate plan. See explanation of plan types here.
But if you were on a variable or indexed plan, your rate — and therefore, your electric bill — may have skyrocketed. One customer messaged us:
“Mine is over $1,000…not sure how…700 square foot apt I have been keeping at 60 degrees."
Another couple tweeted at us:
“Using as little as possible 1300 sq. ft. house and this is my bill. How is this fair. I only paid $1200 for the whole 2020.”
That tweet was accompanied by a screenshot of their bill, which now stands at $3,801.16.
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Then, I spoke with a guy named Ty Williams. He sent screenshots of his three electric meters (one for his home, one for a guest house, and one for his office). Last month, his bill for all three was $660. So far, for this month’s electricity, he owes more than $17,000.
Williams wondered: “How in the world can anyone pay that? I mean you go from a couple hundred dollars a month...there’s absolutely no way...it makes no sense.”
He was on a variable-rate plan with Griddy, which made news this week when it tried to head off devastating electric bills for its customers by encouraging them to leave and find a fixed-rate plan with other providers. The problem is, during all the electricity craziness, Williams says no one would take him until Feb. 26.
“Pretty much you are being held hostage and there isn’t anything you can do about it," he said.
Good news, though: Williams says Reliant Energy agreed to switch him to one of its fixed-rate plans starting Friday. But what about that bill Williams still owes his provider? What about all the other inflated bills so many other Texans owe their providers? That will all still have to be sorted out. Note: You can shop for electricity in Texas here.
Griddy didn't explain what kind of relief might be available for customers with tremendously inflated bills, but the company had a lot of criticism for some players in the Texas electricity industry and for state regulators, saying, in part, "We intend to fight this for, and alongside, our customers for equity and accountability – to reveal why such price increases were allowed to happen as millions of Texans went without power. More to come."
The city told us to only drip one due to the water shortage- our power stayed on the whole time thankfully- I was always told you open your cabinets under the sink and drip the one furtherest from the water meter-Does anyone know if you need to keep your faucets dripping ( if it’s freezing outside) if you have power in your home and it’s warm.
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