If i saw that temp i would start packing the uhaul as soon as it warmed up enough to move stuff.
If it happened every year, I would too. Our water lines froze under the ground. We had a gravity water system coming from a spring up the holler. The 500-gallon concrete reservoir froze rock solid.
I was working in Rome about that time for Ga Power refurbishing a steam turbine/generator. So cold the steam leaks from the other units running rose to the roof and drifted down to where we were trying to work. Turned to snow and covered everything on that end of the building with snow. Only time I saw it snow inside.View attachment 1131245
I have a story about this record cold weather day: 0 degrees F/-18C. (It may well have been a bit colder in Rome, GA that day).
My older brother and his wife came home on Christmas Eve, driving his MGB Roadster. After celebrating Christmas the next morning, and then loading the car, they discovered it wouldn't turn over. Jump start was still a no go. I guess the Castrol 20W-50 oil that the MG liked in normal conditions, was too thick to move at that temperature. Curious, I decided to try my 1972 "hot rod" V8 Dodge Dart daily driver. I always kept it in top tune and I had previously taken pains to set the thermostatic choke and vacuum pull-off on the carburetor to perfect working order.
It struggled with the cold, but fired right up with no jump start, and happily warmed itself at fast idle. To add insult to injury, of course I had to take it down the road on a test drive, showing off a bit, while my GA Tech Engineer brother and my dad devised a plan.
A plan which ended in disaster. They decided to heat some fresh motor oil in the nearly new (and large) digital Amana microwave, and pour it into the MGB 4 cylinder British engine to help get it turning over. Dad chose a dark green glass tea pitcher as the vessel to hold a few quarts. Everything seemed to be going to plan until we heard a "clunk" in the microwave.
When they reached for the pitcher, the bottom had cracked and broken away from the rest of the pitcher, but you couldn't tell. All that hot motor oil fell out into the microwave, out the door, down the cabinet onto the kitchen floor. My mother had a fit.
The microwave survived somehow, although things always tasted a bit like we were eating in the garage. I guess they saved enough oil, and waited for the temps to come up a bit, and finally got the MG started. I will say the door on the microwave never squeaked a bit, or rusted, the rest of the time my folks owned it.
Yep. They're saying about 10 Friday night, 25 high Saturday, and about 10 again Saturday night here, and likely an inch or two of snow Friday into Friday night.
How deep are the lines buried?
Probably a couple feet on average.
Surprised it's not deeper there. 32 here, I believe, to get below frostline. 3 feet at camp.
Well, we don't usually have a permanent frostline. Our average winter low here is about 0.
Looks like someone is gonna get a good thump!
