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Originally Posted by Gunslinger
It was around 12 degrees or so, low of 5 tonight.
Work is a disaster, pipes frozen everywhere, the city threatened a natural gas curtailment that would have doomed the plant for sure. Not looking forward to the next few days at all. The real fun begins when shit starts to thaw.
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You've got that right, I've already had my fun with it.
Early this morning I found we had one of the feed lines to a cooling water tower on the roof at work freeze up. Had to get it thawed out since the tower's water level was getting low and began running regular water over the affected area of the pipe so it could start refilling the tower as it should to maintain the correct water level.
Got it thawed out all right - When the ice in the pipe let go, it caused a waterhammer that blew out the chem feed meter,
looked like a fountain when it came apart, blew the guts of the meter all over the place.
Had to reassemble the meter, then get it back in place on the pipe and hope it didn't let go again which luckily it didn't. I'm also hoping the meter itself will work after all that but at least the tower is up to it's proper level again. If nothing else goes wrong, I'll be happy.