I deal with it pretty well, but I'm used to it. It's probably a bit worse in Florida, and farther south of course. One wonders how the Spaniards and Brits dealt with it during the early days. Must've been hell with wool uniforms and quilted doublets and whatever the fashion was four hundred years ago.
I was in Atlanta for a few days in August some years back for a trade show. Stepping outside from an air conditioned building felt like a steam bath. LOL.
That is the biggest obstacle we are facing right now. We are not set up in our homes and farms for weather this cold or snow like this either. 2000 was the last year it was this cold here and we were 2.5 weeks without power then with no generators. We had to pull all the animals into one barn and fill it with heaters to keep them warm, water pipes have to stay constantly running to keep from freezing, and we have wood stove running at full blast right now...we are all electric but this thing has it toasty in here right now lol. With the generator going it’s kinda like camping...the family is spending a lot more time together.(the only phone chargers working are in the living room power strip off the generator lol.) All in all we don’t have it that rough...long as everyone keeps the pipes from freezing...you really have to stay on top of it with kids cause they tend to go pee at 2am and turn the water back off when they wash their hands.
Atlanta might be worse than the coast, come to think of it. No breeze coming in from offshore and all the pollution and waste heat. I know for sure that being in Prague in the summer wasn't like being here. Narrow streets, tall buildings. No airflow at all in those medieval cities when the cobbles are baking under the sun and the heat's bouncing off the walls at you.
Yep, it’s not when the pipes are frozen, but when the higher temperatures start to melt the frozen water in the pipes. I lived in a “manufactured “ home here for 12 years and it had plastic/polypropylene water pipes. They didn’t burst, but I had to crawl into the crawl space with a hair dryer to get the pipes thawed.
Back in the mid ‘80s, I went on a 4 wheel drive trip on the “Mojave Trail” trail through the California Mojave desert from Barstow to Needles in February. Anyway, we camped in the desert along the way in my canvas tent. I had, up to that point, never been so cold in my life. We actually had some light snow and the temperatures must have been in the teens. The desert can get VERY cold in the winter.
when i visit 1 of 2 ancestral farms (now vaca/hunting places,) i have to turn on the heat/get the fire ripping and wait about 20 min until water will flow in winter (all PEX tubing as most others would snap-and did long ago). it's that or pay rediculous utility bills when you're not even there. yes, people who have hunted desert sheep in AZ were quite surprised to experience sub-freezing temps (high winds and snow) each night in their desert camp!
Through some coal in there, I’ll make the wood go farther.
Oh yeah, those 30+ degree temperature changes are a killer.
