Here comes the hard freeze for 2024

Cajunrider said:
With the North wind blowing and temperature outside around 26 deg F, I am holding 35 deg F inside my porch with a space heater, a propane stove with one burner on (Stove has 6 burners), and a Black Stone flat grill with one burner on low (Grill has 4 burners). So long as I am above freezing, that's all I care. Temperature will continue to drop but I think my set up will keep things OK. All I want is to keep recently collected or worked on trees with very tender roots from freezing. All my tropical is inside my garage with temperature around 40 degrees. I think my set up works out OK so far. I might have to crank up the stove and the grill a tiny bit tomorrow.
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Did you do anything for the rest of your cypresses or are you just gonna let them ride it out as they are?
 
Temperature got to 19 deg. F last night. My set up can't handle the wind. Even with the heating I provided, temperature got down to 27 on my protected porch. I have some icing going on but the roots are above freezing. Good enough for me.

The rest of the house is OK - No freezing.
 
19Mateo83 said:
We are forecasted to hit 20 for the low on the 16th here in North Carolina and the nights will stay in the mid 20’s for the rest of the week. I may have to drag that BC I got from @Cajunrider inside. Being from Louisiana I don’t want to risk it.
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It’s not the Louisiana trees you need to worry about they seem to be able to take the cold, Florida trees are another issue. I have 3 from La and they made it through the 0 F we got last year so I just have them parked on the ground on the north side of my back porch. We only expect it to hit about 10 tonight and 6 Saturday. I did move my smaller trees and my big trident into the garage for a few days to get them through this but everything else is just on the ground in a cluster out of the wind.
 
WNC Bonsai said:
It’s not the Louisiana trees you need to worry about they seem to be able to take the cold, Florida trees are another issue. I have 3 from La and they made it through the 0 F we got last year so I just have them parked on the ground on the north side of my back porch. We only expect it to hit about 10 tonight and 6 Saturday. I did move my smaller trees and my big trident into the garage for a few days to get them through this but everything else is just on the ground in a cluster out of the wind.
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Good to know! Thank you
 
All my outdoor faucets froze. No water comes out on any of them. Hope they will thaw out OK later.
 
Cajunrider said:
All my outdoor faucets froze. No water comes out on any of them. Hope they will thaw out OK later.
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Better get used to draining your outside water lines every fall or install frost proof faucets. Imhave one frost proof a d 2 that are usually drained from the first freeze in the fall until the last one in spring.

 
Cajunrider said:
All my outdoor faucets froze. No water comes out on any of them. Hope they will thaw out OK later.
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All mine are frozen too .....couldnt water my greenhouse this morning so I went ahead and ordered a battery operated garden sprayer from Amazon to fix that issue. Should have thought about it before lol.
 
Got home from work to discover greatly reduced pressure at the faucets, and the sound of running water under my laundry room floor.😓
This despite my leaving the kitchen faucet running nonstop since Friday.

So, a reminder to all that the thawing process is perfectly capable of busting your pipes too.
And I was so looking forward to a hot shower after working in the cold all day.🙄
 
ShadyStump said:
Got home from work to discover greatly reduced pressure at the faucets, and the sound of running water under my laundry room floor.😓
This despite my leaving the kitchen faucet running nonstop since Friday.

So, a reminder to all that the thawing process is perfectly capable of busting your pipes too.
And I was so looking forward to a hot shower after working in the cold all day.🙄
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Sorry to hear about the pipes shady.
 
ShadyStump said:
Got home from work to discover greatly reduced pressure at the faucets, and the sound of running water under my laundry room floor.😓
This despite my leaving the kitchen faucet running nonstop since Friday.

So, a reminder to all that the thawing process is perfectly capable of busting your pipes too.
And I was so looking forward to a hot shower after working in the cold all day.🙄
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I am sorry man.
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ShadyStump said:
Turns out the pipes are fine. A joint failed is all. That's a much easier repair, and knowing it's my fault - because I was the one who made that joint - has substantially reduced my desire to burn the house down.
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You can use a shark bite on copper pipe or pex, just press it on and be back up and running in seconds
 
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