About the weather

[fatrockstar]

With the winter storm warning changed into a "cold weather warning" I am a little distressed. I can handle snow. Snow is insulating. Snow doesn't make the crack in my windshield worse, or cause any of my pipes to rupture. It also doesn't come with a shitload of wind. I don't know what concerns me more, the wind or needing to protect my pipes. If either one of those goes worst-case-scenario I have no idea what I'll do.

First of all, I need to wrap/insulate the outdoor spigots. I couldn't find any of those styrofoam caps at the Freddy's and was too tired to look elsewhere so I came home. I figure I will take a couple of old towels and wrap things up. It's the least I can do, right? I have no idea what I'm doing here.

I came home to the front spotlight out, again. If I get another bulb and it's also a short-timer I'm going to think someone is fucking with it. I also realized that I didn't get my lawn guy to clear out my gutters. They are full of leaves and the blockage is creating icy waterfalls off the eaves of my house.

It's warm inside, though. That's good. Sometimes I enjoy being a homeowner and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I think the only thing that keeps me here is the sad fact that I hate to move and have way too much of Garret's shit to get rid of. I'm still pretty irritated at that.

I'm not hungry enough to go to the store. No ice cream for me.

Comments

[sigil.livejournal.com]

Okay, somewhere in your house, typically in the basement but it could be somewhere else, there should be shutoff valves for the outside faucets. It's really just the typical little wheel on the pipe sort of deal, like the outside faucets, only usually they're in the ceiling and on pipes that run to the outside walls right about where the outside faucets are, only inside (of course). You turn them clockwise until they don't go any further. Then you go outside and turn the faucet on. A little bit of water should run out and then stop. That way the outside pipes are empty and the freezing weather shouldn't make a difference.

If you have a finished basement, usually there's a panel or a section of wall or ceiling you can unscrew to get to the plumbing. If you don't have a basement, I'm not sure what you'd do, but they should be somewhere.

[winifred.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I live in a rambler with a crawlspace -- no basement. The closest thing I've found to a water main is a wheel valve on a pipe going from the hot water heater in the garage through the adjoining wall to the inside of the house.

[sigil.livejournal.com]

Odds are that's not it - although I suppose you can turn it off and see what happens - odds are all it'll do is cut off your hot water.

Is there any way you can track where the pipes from the faucets come into your home? If you can find the pipe, somewhere along it has to be the shutoff valve.