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Borzak

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Friend just sold their house and is staying with a relative while they build a new one. She texted and said "we're adding a fireplace" lol. No shit. I don't think I've ever lived in a house without secondary heat. Even the short time I lived in San Antonio in an apartment that company leased it had a fireplace.
 
Borzak

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Someone has been attempting to drive on the interstate in Baton Rouge from pic on the news lol. All that is elevated interstate. Freeze? Seriously lol. Some people.

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Forecast calls for a high of 45 on Monday. That's a 75 degree swing from the low on Sunday night. Seems excessive.

EDIT: That's from the previous Sunday. It's a big swing in a week but I realized my original post makes it sound like it happened overnight.
 
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buying new home now

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Something else people in Texas don't know is that fireplaces are actually terribad for heating your home. What will happen is the fireplace will draw all the heat from all other rooms in the house, thus actually making it colder in most of you house than if you didn't have a fireplace going at all.

I don't understand why people there don't just have a little woodstove. For probably $100 worth of wood you could likely never have to turn on your primary heat source all winter (you know, in normal winters). Plus they make a nice, cozy house, are minimal work/upkeep, and actually add humidity to a home when you're burning it (provided you have a good, efficient one, preferably with a catalytic converter).
 
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lurkingdirk said:
Something else people in Texas don't know is that fireplaces are actually terribad for heating your home. What will happen is the fireplace will draw all the heat from all other rooms in the house, thus actually making it colder in most of you house than if you didn't have a fireplace going at all.

I don't understand why people there don't just have a little woodstove. For probably $100 worth of wood you could likely never have to turn on your primary heat source all winter (you know, in normal winters). Plus they make a nice, cozy house, are minimal work/upkeep, and actually add humidity to a home when you're burning it (provided you have a good, efficient one, preferably with a catalytic converter).
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I am a retard. Can you post an example of one of these?

Growing up in Oregon we always had a pellet stove.
 
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I walked outside. I assumed the all white was snow. Nope. Yard and driveway solid ice with a slight dusting of ice. I picked up a hammer I had on the porch and couldn't crack it. Couple inches thick. Came in before I became a statistic of broken bones. Supposed to above freezing for an hour today. Bet the horde breaks loose and everyone goes out driving at once to only have wrecks on bridges where the water down to.
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Once ice is thick, you’re fucked without a lot of manual labor or ice melters. Even if you have a specialized ice chopping tool, it’s really hard to get rid of thick ice unless the sun starts to help. Usually you try to chip pits down to the pavement, so the sun can start to warm that surface and weaken the ice. Then once the sun helps, you gradually try to remove the weakened ice near the pits. Ice melters can help with that also.

If the ice is in perma shade, then you can’t do much efficiently until it gets much warmer
 
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Borzak

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Suns out now may help. Not that it matters to me I was just curious. By Thursday high in the upper 60's.

If your fireplace is a net lose of heat you need a better fireplace, better wood, or more wood. I got up at 7 and mom said the heat was running too much. 3 hours later now the heat is totally off and my didital thermometer in the hall says 80F. It's a double fireplace, it opens to the front and the back of the house. When you really fill it with hickory it really gets going after a while :) Guessing a northerner built this house or something. In the deep south and the house is built with 2x6 studs instead of 2x4 and a double access fireplace which is odd nowdays, kind of common 120 years ago when houses were split and had a dogtrot between them.

My grandmother has an insert in her fireplace. You build a real fire but the doors close and it blows the hot air out of the bottom. It gets really really warm. It's been there probably 30 years.
 
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Instead of salt the highway department usually puts sand on overpasses so traffic kind of bust up the ice as it goes. A lot of times the ice is normally on on bridges and overpasses where they get cold from not having ground beneath them. This time just too much water was still coming down and just freezing as it ran down the road. I mentioned before at my parents house about 7 years ago everything was cold but then the ice melted from the sun in the trees and it froze coming down the hill and got about 2" thick. 4 degrees at my grandmothers place now about an hour from the border of Louisiana and Toledo Bend. She had central air and heat put in about 25 years ago but kept her dearborn gas heaters so she's in good shape and can also cook with no power. 15 here about an hour from Baton Rouge in MS now, at least the limbs falling quieted down.

Out of the normal cold was a problem but doable. Just too much water at the same time as single digit temps.

The ultimate shit. Saw overnight in NC and GA they had a tornado in low ass temp and the water from it was freezing soon as it hit the ground. We had quite a bit of thundering yesterday while it was freezing rain but no tornado thankfully.
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Icemelt is your friend. Always have a bucket or two just sitting in the basement.
 
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For those wondering about the ice under the snow, Your ground isnt cold enough to maintain the snow so it won't stick and melts. Eventually enough snow drops on top that it creates a layer of insulation. The good news is that above freezing ground will help melt the shit as the temp rises.
 
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Mardi gras is today. It was cancelled and guessing lot would stay home regardless. I've been when it was below freezing and the drunks didn't seem to care. It's not that cold in New Orleans.
 
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There is a group of three teenage dudes that come through offering to shovel driveways and walks for cheap. Two happened to be black. My nearest neighbour called the police as they were walking down her driveway with shovel in hand after a huge snowfall. They were going to ring her bell and ask if she'd pay them to shovel. They've been doing it for years, but my pants on head retarded neighbour called the cops on them, now they're no longer allowed to. They were told the three of them walking around together with "potential weapons" (snow shovels?) was menacing.

Stupid bitch.
 
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There is a group of three teenage dudes that come through offering to shovel driveways and walks for cheap. Two happened to be black. My nearest neighbour called the police as they were walking down her driveway with shovel in hand after a huge snowfall. They were going to ring her bell and ask if she'd pay them to shovel. They've been doing it for years, but my pants on head retarded neighbour called the cops on them, now they're no longer allowed to. They were told the three of them walking around together with "potential weapons" (snow shovels?) was menacing.

Stupid bitch.
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people are fucked up.
 
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