Well, hell, I'm freezing my ass off. For more than 2 weeks the high temperature has been less than 60 every day. For the past 7 days, the low temperature has been under 40. The past 3 days we woke up to temps in the 20's. Saturday we had sleet and snow. Jesus H. Christ! This is supposed to be the sunshine state.
My heat pump has been useless the last three mornings. The coil around the fan housing has been covered in ice. First time that has ever happened. The defrost isn't set for temperatures in the 20's and has been overwhelmed. Every morning only cold air is being blown into the house. The heat runs constantly and doesn't do anything. Once the sun starts melting the ice, every thing's fine. I help it along with some hot water.
Speaking of hot water, we didn't have any on Sunday mornin
g. All of our pipes are either underground or insulated except for one spot. Sure enough that is where the pipes had frozen. There's two uninsulated elbows that go into the shed. As it turns out, they feed the washing machine and water heater. I couldn't even get cold water to go into the washer so I knew the pipes were frozen. After I put some hot water (heated on the stove) on the pipe elbows and on the inside connections, the water heater started to fill and soon we had hot water again. I covered the elbows with towels and they didn't freeze up anymore.
Nobody believes that we had snow in central Florida
so here is the proof. We also had some car accidents caused by people skidding on the ice, swimming pools were frozen over. Emergency rescue operations are underway for sea turtles and manatees. Citrus, strawberry and tomato crops are on the verge of destruction. Saturday it was 34 at 1130AM in Deland. It was 33 in Juneau, Alaska. Go figure.
My heat pump has been useless the last three mornings. The coil around the fan housing has been covered in ice. First time that has ever happened. The defrost isn't set for temperatures in the 20's and has been overwhelmed. Every morning only cold air is being blown into the house. The heat runs constantly and doesn't do anything. Once the sun starts melting the ice, every thing's fine. I help it along with some hot water.
Speaking of hot water, we didn't have any on Sunday mornin
g. All of our pipes are either underground or insulated except for one spot. Sure enough that is where the pipes had frozen. There's two uninsulated elbows that go into the shed. As it turns out, they feed the washing machine and water heater. I couldn't even get cold water to go into the washer so I knew the pipes were frozen. After I put some hot water (heated on the stove) on the pipe elbows and on the inside connections, the water heater started to fill and soon we had hot water again. I covered the elbows with towels and they didn't freeze up anymore.Nobody believes that we had snow in central Florida
so here is the proof. We also had some car accidents caused by people skidding on the ice, swimming pools were frozen over. Emergency rescue operations are underway for sea turtles and manatees. Citrus, strawberry and tomato crops are on the verge of destruction. Saturday it was 34 at 1130AM in Deland. It was 33 in Juneau, Alaska. Go figure.
I'll take "Proof that the end is near" for $500, Alex.
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