[Leica] The Storm

[Don Dory]

Two years ago during our little experiment in no electricity a very large
number of homeowners didn't understand how to drain pipes.  Just turning
the water off doesn't get the water out of the pipes.  Since then we have
had a large influx of Californians who will also never experienced what sub
zero temperatures do to water in pipes.  Then there is all the rage for
exterior tankless water heaters.  Lots of folks bought new heaters after
the last freeze.

If our local power overlords did their job we won't run out of power but I
suspect they are paying gas peaker plants to be online in case wind doesn't
blow on the panhandle or blows too hard for the turbines.

Great for the news business and for your son in New Orleans possibly good
business for folks who are willing to pay for a hot shower.

However, maybe this time history is near enough in time people remember and
will change behaviors.

All the best.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 5:31 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> We’re a little better off than further South, but lots of raised homes
> here.
>
> There will be plumbing issues.
>
> SonC
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 5:28 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Plumbers are going to be busy in New Orleans.  They don't build plumbing
> > for that temperature that far south.  Sonny, I assume Natchitoches builds
> > with pipes somewhere other than in the attic or outside the structure as
> I
> > see all along the coast, especially in historic buildings.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 5:05 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > -11C in Natchitoches, 0Cin New Orleans.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 4:47 AM JAMES HANDSFIELD <jhandsfield at att.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > -6º C in Atlanta this morning.  48 KPH winds.
> > > >
> > > > Jim Handsfield
> > > > jhandsfield at att.net
> > > >
> > > > “Thou shalt not commit nincompoopery.”
> > > > — Carl Sandburg
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > On Dec 22, 2022, at 7:41 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In central Texas it is already -5 C and will go down quite a bit
> more
> > > > > before it gets warmer.   Fortunately down here there is no
> > > precipitation
> > > > > but our friends further north might get more than a meter of snow.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, 6:37 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> It certainly seems that many of you in the US will be hit by this
> > > winter
> > > > >> storm with unbelievably cold temperatures. I hope you all get
> > through
> > > it
> > > > >> without too much damage to lives or property.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Douglas
> > > > >>
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> Sonny
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> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> 1714
> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
>
> USA
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Don
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