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[SteveBrickNJ]

Boot it. Literally. It cracks the ice, breaks the seal. We boot lots of stuff.

Thanks...I will try that tomorrow.

 

[JenniferS]

{{HUGS}} sending prayers and pixie dust tomorrow is better
as for the last part I get that! DS picked fish and chips for his birthday and James told me he changed his mind and wanted pizza. Yeah whatever just go away isn't changing their mind Now the fight is over chocolate or funfetti cake

Funfetti. Hope that helps.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

@SteveBrickNJ enjoy sleeping in tomorrow. I have to get up early to get everybody moving early as tomorrow is dh's early day and the boys may need to do some more snow removal

How is it you always know when my school district declares a delayed opening?

 

[Figgy1]

How is it you always know when my school district declares a delayed opening?

Channel 7

 

[Figgy1]

Funfetti. Hope that helps.

That's James' choice. They make each other cakes for their birthdays using a mix so I'll pick one up Friday when I'm briefly out and about as it looks like the warmest day of the weekend. It's cake so no matter what I get they won't complain

 

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[Songbird76]

My daughter was born at 1:20am, 50 years ago on January 16th. When I left the hospital around 3am it was about (actual temp.) -23 degrees F. I went home and slept a few hours and then at about 8am I went out to go back to the hospital to see how everyone was doing. At that time the temperature was -36 degrees F and for the first time in all the years I owned it, my 70 Buick Skylark would not start. It had snowed the evening before so the plows were out and I lived on the end of a street where the plows would back into my driveway to turn around. I corralled them and they jump started my battery and I was on my way. Never had a problem after that. I think that my car was having some adjusting problems about no longer being the baby in my life. Or it was an omen, hard to tell at this point. Fromto in speed.

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.........................................................^ My little girl from birth to Mother of three. I hope to see the next two stages.

I may have asked this before, but if I have, I've forgotten the answer. Do you plug your cars in at night in Vermont? I know they don't have tank heaters in the Southern states, because a friend of mine from college was from Arizona and we were walking across campus one day and he suddenly dove under some cars to take pictures of the cords. He said without pictures, no one back home would believe we actually have cords to plug our cars in at night when it's cold so our cars will start. It had never occured to me that not all cars were made with those because we grew up plugging our cars in. But I just assumed it was standard in any of the states where it could get below freezing. Did you not have that? Is it a Northwest US thing?

 

[Songbird76]

I have one of these and the lid is frozen shut.View attachment 763391

We have those and they do tend to freeze shut. I make a fist and hit the front middle of the lid to break the ice and then it opens.

 

[MinnieM123]

Boot it. Literally. It cracks the ice, breaks the seal. We boot lots of stuff.

We have those and they do tend to freeze shut. I make a fist and hit the front middle of the lid to break the ice and then it opens.

Yup! @SteveBrickNJ -- brute force works every time! (I would not recommend the hot water method you mentioned, since the walkway to the barrel might also have some black ice.)

 

[FutureCEO]

We have proper winter weather for one week and everybody freaks out.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

We have those and they do tend to freeze shut. I make a fist and hit the front middle of the lid to break the ice and then it opens.

That worked easily and quickly. I wore gloves...smacked the front/top/center...and tah duh! Instant release.
Thanks!

 

[Songbird76]

That worked easily and quickly. I wore gloves...smacked the front/top/center...and tah duh! Instant release.
Thanks!

I used to use hot water, but it always refroze afterwards and it took so much time to heat water, etc... Pounding on the top is just sooooo much faster. Glad it worked for you!

 

[Lilofan]

That worked easily and quickly. I wore gloves...smacked the front/top/center...and tah duh! Instant release.
Thanks!

Steve
When you set out your garbage can on the street , you can try putting a cardboard flat board box below the lid to help prevent from freezing.

 

[JenniferS]

Message from our next door neighbour to Mike:


I filled the kettle, the coffee maker, and the Brita. Filling the tub now so we can flush at least one toilet.

Florida hurricanes trained me well.

 

[JenniferS]

I may have asked this before, but if I have, I've forgotten the answer. Do you plug your cars in at night in Vermont? I know they don't have tank heaters in the Southern states, because a friend of mine from college was from Arizona and we were walking across campus one day and he suddenly dove under some cars to take pictures of the cords. He said without pictures, no one back home would believe we actually have cords to plug our cars in at night when it's cold so our cars will start. It had never occured to me that not all cars were made with those because we grew up plugging our cars in. But I just assumed it was standard in any of the states where it could get below freezing. Did you not have that? Is it a Northwest US thing?

Block heaters. Used to be a big thing here. Maybe the more modern batteries don’t require them as much, as I haven’t seen one in many, many years. They’re still advised (but not mandatory) in Alberta.

Google says most car batteries are fine until temps hit -15°. Canadian article, so presumably that’s °C.

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

Steve
When you set out your garbage can on the street , you can try putting a cardboard flat board box below the lid to help prevent from freezing.

In the future I might.
Today the air in my town is bone dry and I cleared the rim of the can thoroughly so for those two reasons it won't stick again today.

 

[Lilofan]

Message from our next door neighbour to Mike:
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I filled the kettle, the coffee maker, and the Brita. Filling the tub now so we can flush at least one toilet.

Florida hurricanes trained me well.

I've survived Cat 3/4 hurricanes with us hiding in our walk in closets during the monster storm. We fared well but not so much parts of the structure. The power was out for several weeks but with gravity flush toilets we could still flush and take showers. The homeowners that had well water are the ones in real trouble. Without electricity , they have no access to running water and are not able to take showers and flush toilets. Filling the tub is a good idea though in any storm.

 

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