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01-30-2014, 07:45 PM
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City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
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Originally Posted by angus99
Got home to Signal Mtn, TN two weeks ago to find water streaming out of the garage -- which is built into the house. We're well off the road, so no one saw it for a week. Temps had gotten to -5 F in our neighborhood. Finished garage had to be stripped to the studs and dried out. Ceiling sheetrock had collapsed and everything soaked. The warm water even penetrated under the stamped concrete driveway pad outside, froze, heaved up and cracked it. We'd left the water running, never expecting temps like these. The boat in the backyard came through fine, though 
(No worries, Don. It was my previous house you built, not this one.  ) |
Whew! Having built a few hundred home up there, I do worry when temps drop that low.It was 9 in the valley recently. I saw one of my home owners had left their garage door open. I stopped and told them to close it and disconnect their water hose out side.
Tough luck on the freeze. I had a lady that would turn the heat off in her home to spend the winter in Texas. The house froze up twice before she learned to leave some heat on. The guys didn't mind working for her. They called her Miss Texas.
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01-30-2014, 07:56 PM
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City: Beaverton, Ontario
Vessel Name: Looking Glass
Vessel Model: Carver 370 Voyager
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Here's the weather map for the day in various parts of Canada, and I guess for the next few weeks as well so they say.
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01-30-2014, 07:59 PM
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City: Port Huron, MI
Vessel Name: Meander
Vessel Model: 1983 Grand Banks 36 Classic
Join Date: Sep 2012
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The weather gods are against us!
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01-30-2014, 08:19 PM
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City: Signal Mtn., TN
Vessel Name: Stella Maris
Vessel Model: Defever 44
Join Date: Feb 2012
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Originally Posted by Moonstruck
Whew! Having built a few hundred home up there, I do worry when temps drop that low.It was 9 in the valley recently. I saw one of my home owners had left their garage door open. I stopped and told them to close it and disconnect their water hose out side.
Tough luck on the freeze. I had a lady that would turn the heat off in her home to spend the winter in Texas. The house froze up twice before she learned to leave some heat on. The guys didn't mind working for her. They called her Miss Texas.
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Thanks. We're in a micro climate way back in Grandview. We think it froze when the power went out for a few hours on the coldest night. Never again will I leave for an extended time without draining the pipes.
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01-30-2014, 09:27 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: ketchikan, Alaska
Vessel Name: 'SLO'~BELLE
Vessel Model: 1978 Marben-27' Flybridge Trawler(extended to 30 feet) Pilothouse Pocket Cruiser[
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Weather in Southern Southeast Alaska for the month of Febuary:
Ketchikan February Weather 2014 - AccuWeather Forecast for AK 99901
Extremely unusual, already have the boat pressure washed, and am planning on making a very early voyage!! Cheers to all and warm heart thoughts to you in the chill zones.
Al Johnson-Ketchikan (Bridge to Nowhere) Alaska
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01-30-2014, 09:38 PM
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City: Tampa
Join Date: Oct 2013
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Ok, I know it's nothing like you guys are having up North and elsewhere, but hey! I'm a native Floridian and this weather is Bbbbbbbbb....bullchit! 
Where's the sunshine and warm weather!?
This keeps up, I'm moving further South (preferably where there's no extradition...just in case I have to take care of some bidness on the way out   )....
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01-30-2014, 09:39 PM
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City: Here
Join Date: Sep 2012
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Originally Posted by Al
Weather in Southern Southeast Alaska for the month of Febuary:
Ketchikan February Weather 2014 - AccuWeather Forecast for AK 99901
Extremely unusual, already have the boat pressure washed, and am planning on making a very early voyage!! Cheers to all and warm heart thoughts to you in the chill zones.
Al Johnson-Ketchikan (Bridge to Nowhere) Alaska
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So you guys sucked all the "global warming" out of Ontario ?
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01-31-2014, 04:39 PM
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City: Beaverton, Ontario
Vessel Name: Looking Glass
Vessel Model: Carver 370 Voyager
Join Date: Nov 2012
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I was kind of looking forward to global warming, what happened??  More snow coming tomorrow!!
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02-01-2014, 05:48 AM
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City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Well, it's true, the weather here in most of FL hasn't been that great, but when I read about all the misery of pipe-freezing and such, it brings back those memories of laying on my back in sub zero in my crawl space, heating the pipes with an plumber's torch to break up the ice, replace split sections and couplings, even with pipe insulation and leaving the faucets dripping.....no thanks.
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"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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02-02-2014, 12:46 PM
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City: Pensacola
Join Date: May 2012
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I live in Florida and my boat was in the boat yard this past month including last weeks freezes. I got her launched yesterday and returned to my home slip. Went to turn in the FW pump and heard the pump running and started checking faucets. Sure enough aft head faucet coupling failed at the faucet. No shut off.
Fwd head leaking too. Good time to put in a shut off valve as I repair.
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02-05-2014, 04:38 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Paris,TN
Vessel Name: Slo-Poke
Vessel Model: Jorgensen custom 44
Join Date: Jan 2013
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Cold day at work
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