• If you are posting pictures, and they aren't posting in the correct orientation, please flush your browser cache and try again.

    Edge
    Safari/iOS
    Chrome

Do you remember it being colder

Hope you guys are all hanging in. Won’t see a flake or frozen drop until the middle of the night here.
 
Really not much of anything on the roads. Have about 1/4" of ice on the vehicles and in the trees. About to head out to pick up my daughter. All roads between here and there are showing clear, but I will take it easy on the bridges. If it doesn't dry out today/tonight, tomorrow will be different story.
 
I saw Oxford, MS has close to 1" of ice already and allegedly the worst is yet to come.
 
I was a little concerned, being I was on vacation during all of the cold. I normally have several cameras, and wi-fi thermos stats to monitor everything, but they stopped working last Monday. I had someone stop and check, the heat was still working on Tuesday. I normally heat with an outdoor wood boiler, and I loaded it before I left, and had someone load it again, but it went out after that, so I was hoping the switch to the propane boiler went with no issues. That worked fine, but we must have had a power surge on last Monday, and it tripped all of our GFCI outlets, which is why we lost cameras and internet. The septic pump was tripped, propane boiler water vapor tank over flowed, freezer was off, and anything that wasn’t packed meat was warm and had to be tossed. Always great to come back from a vacation and be more stressed. I know I can claim it against insurance, but is it worth making a claim, and having insurance go up.


IMG_1128.jpegIMG_1129.jpegIMG_1130.jpegIMG_1131.jpegIMG_1132.jpeg
 
I definitely would get the freezer off of a GFCI protected outlet before loading it again.
 
4wanderingeyes said:
I was a little concerned, being I was on vacation during all of the cold. I normally have several cameras, and wi-fi thermos stats to monitor everything, but they stopped working last Monday. I had someone stop and check, the heat was still working on Tuesday. I normally heat with an outdoor wood boiler, and I loaded it before I left, and had someone load it again, but it went out after that, so I was hoping the switch to the propane boiler went with no issues. That worked fine, but we must have had a power surge on last Monday, and it tripped all of our GFCI outlets, which is why we lost cameras and internet. The septic pump was tripped, propane boiler water vapor tank over flowed, freezer was off, and anything that wasn’t packed meat was warm and had to be tossed. Always great to come back from a vacation and be more stressed. I know I can claim it against insurance, but is it worth making a claim, and having insurance go up.


View attachment 88309View attachment 88310View attachment 88311View attachment 88312View attachment 88313
Click to expand...

That's a bummer. All that stuff went to waste?

My family and my wife's family empty all fridges and freezers whenever a cabin will be unoccupied for more than a week. It was a hard-earned lesson. Now the Canadian raccoons get a feast every October when we throw out anything not worth taking home.

I also remove anything that could freeze or that mice could possibly get into from my cabin when I close it down for the season. Covid allowed a couple of the Ontario cabins to become mice playgrounds, as no one could get across the border for 2 years or more. Some of the canned peaches I had in the basement for bear bait popped and leaked, but I was smart enough to stack them on a tarp before I left, so no stains in the concrete, just a funky odor when I went down there in May.
 
Kdog said:
Really not much of anything on the roads. Have about 1/4" of ice on the vehicles and in the trees. About to head out to pick up my daughter. All roads between here and there are showing clear, but I will take it easy on the bridges. If it doesn't dry out today/tonight, tomorrow will be different story.
Click to expand...
No issues picking her up. She decided to drive in on her own tonight and can share a room at the hospital, or I have a friend about 1/2 mile down the road where she can go if I can't get her in the morning.
 
Hearing now boat docks all over the state down, chicken houses, shop buildings, etc

IMG_6231.jpeg

Havent had a chance to check on my ten stall boat storage
 
The ice storms are the worst. It’s been quite awhile since we have had a bad one here, it did make the duck hunting fantastic for a couple days though.

We ended up with about eight inches more of snow and now the wind has really kicked up with sub zero wind chills, I think the whole state is on a level 3 warning do not drive. At least our power hasn’t gone out. Supposed to stay sub zero for a few days now.
 
H20fwler said:
The ice storms are the worst. It’s been quite awhile since we have had a bad one here, it did make the duck hunting fantastic for a couple days though.

We ended up with about eight inches more of snow and now the wind has really kicked up with sub zero wind chills, I think the whole state is on a level 3 warning do not drive. At least our power hasn’t gone out. Supposed to stay sub zero for a few days now.
Click to expand...

Hang in there. You have a generator?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

bigbendmarine
Tribute to A Man From The Greatest Generation
Replies
15
Views
3K
Merle Hawggard
Merle Hawggard
Back
Top