What's the temperature in your neck of the woods?

[WotAnAtti2d]

Today, it's a whopping 2° F, and supposed to get to -5° F tonight.

One of my online buddies said it's -47° F in Minnesota... that's nuts!

I don't believe that the weather is going to be any less quirky soon, either.

[herbalhippie]

30 and I think yesterday we got up to around 45.

[MetalFusionDude]

Currently 57 (Florida)

Been talking to my brother who lives in Chicago, he said the high today is -12. lol, damn. that sounds like hell!

[Inland Botanicals]

It's 23 here but I feel like I can't complain about that when I see others in the negative. Stay warm yall!

[e_poison]

-45 or so with wind chill. Pipes frozen and nothing I do is working. As of right now, I have no running water. Had a heater on the culprit pipe for hours and still won’t flow. Now night is falling again and looks like I’m headed into day 2 of this crap. I’m very frustrated right now and would kill for a hot shower. I cranked up the heat in the house today in an attempt to unfreeze the pipes and I’m a sweaty, miserable mess.

[WotAnAtti2d]

e_,

Take a bath in that tub of snow with your sweaty self. It will not only clean you, but cool your core temperature down... quick.

[e_poison]

I’m about to heat up some water on the stove and at least take a sponge bath or something lol. Not showering is so gross and I feel gross as hell right now. I normally shower 2x per day.

[herbalhippie]

I’m about to heat up some water on the stove and at least take a sponge bath or something lol. Not showering is so gross and I feel gross as hell right now. I normally shower 2x per day.

I did that with no power for a week due to a major windstorm one winter and with four kids ages 8 and under in the house. Heated up the water on the woodstove. We actually survived that week relatively comfortably thanks to me being a prepper.

[Kunlong]

South South New Mexico about 20 minutes North of juarez: 42 @6 am but supposed to be 68 today. High 30s nights, high 60s days this week.
But the water in the air makes it seem colder and one of the renters is saying "I don't remember it this cold?" (In the last 6 years here) but the deal is I don't remember it this humid in the last 6 years.
Its relative too. You get regionally acclimated and 5-10 degree differences seem like 20 degree differences.

[e_poison]

Water is back on. The culprit frozen pipe was in the wall where the main is and blocked all water. Took about 20 hours or so with a space heater. Had to insulate with some blankets and such... basically make a little blanket fort around the wall section and then crank the portable heater as high as it would go. Of course, I had to babysit it the entire time so it didn’t catch fire. Also turned up the heat in the house to 82 for extra thawing power.

Left for a bit this morning to go shower at a relatives house and when I came back there was water slowly dripping through all the faucets in the house. I am so relieved because we were set to cut the wall out today to get to the pipe. Thankfully that has been avoided. Main was off while I thawed so no burst pipe either. I waited for all water to drip through the faucets (with main off) and when it stopped, I cranked that sucker back on.

As for this polar vortex, it may be the coldest I’ve ever experienced in my life. If you step outside, you can feel it in your bones and it hurts to breathe. Exposure for more than a few minutes can do serious damage. It is beyond cold.

[herbalhippie]

And meanwhile your house is subtropical.

[WotAnAtti2d]

Water is back on. The culprit frozen pipe was in the wall where the main is and blocked all water. Took about 20 hours or so with a space heater. Had to insulate with some blankets and such... basically make a little blanket fort around the wall section and then crank the portable heater as high as it would go. Of course, I had to babysit it the entire time so it didn’t catch fire. Also turned up the heat in the house to 82 for extra thawing power.

Left for a bit this morning to go shower at a relatives house and when I came back there was water slowly dripping through all the faucets in the house. I am so relieved because we were set to cut the wall out today to get to the pipe. Thankfully that has been avoided. Main was off while I thawed so no burst pipe either. I waited for all water to drip through the faucets (with main off) and when it stopped, I cranked that sucker back on.

As for this polar vortex, it may be the coldest I’ve ever experienced in my life. If you step outside, you can feel it in your bones and it hurts to breathe. Exposure for more than a few minutes can do serious damage. It is beyond cold.

Yeah, I call that "hunting camp cold". Up in the mountains, you'd walk out of the cabin at 4 am, and the hairs in your nose would freeze solid almost instantly. It was a weird feeling.