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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.
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.
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Got to stand under a firewater sprinkler this morning to close an isolation valve to the system, we were using steam to thaw a frozen pipe, steam set off the sprinkler system.

Gotta love winter in the south.

And it was 5 degrees F.
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It's so cold the police aren't even pulling speeders over.

Wonder if my 8800 gts will do 900 in this ?
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Very irritating...now I have to deal with two vehicles. Probably end up pulling the trailer to work at some point. Stupid bike...

Hope we both have better luck this evening Gunslinger...stay warm if you can.


EDIT: I just figured out why the jump start didnt work this morning...the inline fuse on the Tender pigtail was blown. I was so tired and frustrated this morning it didnt even occur to me at the time. Pushed the bike into the heated warehouse and have the Tender charging right now. If it fires up later I will likely ride back to the house this evening.
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Bike fired right up after being warmed and I rode it home this evening. Only 13 degrees tonight, but all is right in the world once again. Moral of the story is if I ride it into work again in the cold it will be parked inside while I work hehe.
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nice, I've got similar issues with the 6 cooling towers we've got. We stopped the chem feeds while it was real cold and bypassed the controllers that had the option.
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Three days ago in St. Paul MN, minus 22 degree's no Internet and already working so I can't use it YET!
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66' here, horrible just horrible
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LOL! You poor thing!
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