Colder than a brass bra on a witches tit.

I like the burger at Nighthawk Kitchen inside of Mast Landing brewery in Freeport. I typically get the one with onions on it but I can't recall the name. I get the Gluten Free bun for health issues and it's pretty good. I can only imagine the regular bun is much better.

Next time try a penny.

May not be what you’re looking for, but I really like the burger at Selah Tea in downtown Waterville. Don’t think they do fries, they have chips and a pickle, pasta, and other sides though. That said, pretzel bun and toppings are delicious. Not very greasy either, just a delicious burger.

https://selahteacafe.com/online-ordering/ols/products/selah-turkey

Edit: Huh, based on the URL it might be Turkey, actually!? I’m amazed honestly. It’s my go to when I’m in town there, and I’d rank it up there with some of the best burgers I’ve gotten. It’s definitely worth the try, even if it’s not your traditional beef burger and fries that you may have been seeking.

It doesn't hurt, if you do your own handyman work, to pre-assemble the kit needed to defrost a well line. I keep mine handy. You need about 30 feet of the harder transparent pipe they sell by the foot in the hardware store, depending how far your well is from your basement, has about 1/4 or 3/8 inch internal diameter, as well as one of those black submersible utility pumps, hardware fittings to go from the pump to the 30-foot pipe, and a nice clean five gallon bucket. Set aside enough water to fill that bucket somewhere it doesn't freeze. If your well pipe freezes, you heat that water up super hot on your stove, fill the bucket, turn the well off, disconnect the well line close to the place it comes into the basement, and put the bucket under the end to catch the water and recycle. Pump the hot water into the well pipe, recycling as much as you can. Push the line in as you go. It will melt the ice in the pipe at a rate of a couple inches a second. As soon as it is ice-free, reconnect and turn on the well. Then run the tap furthest from the well for the rest of the hard part of winter. The same kit is good for winterizing onboard and stern drive boat engines and campers, only in that case you pump RV antifreeze instead.

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That’s a really good idea, thank you. In previous experiences that didn’t go well for me but I have much better insurance now and it didn’t even cross my mind. I’ll definitely give them a call. Thanks again.

Run the tap that is furthest from the well just a trickle. But remember that the cold has to penetrate the ground to freeze the pipe that comes to the house, which takes more time than this 24-36 hour cold snap. Keep plenty of heat in the house and run that tap.

Wood heat but also pretty well insulated. 75, down to 55 overnight.

It's my fault. Back in December, when we were having warmish weather, I tossed a nickel at the sky and yelled, "Send me some cold winter weather!"

If I'd have known how cheap it was, I wouldn't have ordered so much.

Will your insurance company provide some options for you? They must have other customers with the same challenges.

Does anyone else calls these Gorbeys? I was in my 30's before I learned that they were also called Grey Jays

Heated basement is 100% fool-proof. If you have a bathroom sink with pipes in the walls of a finished basement, definitely leave the vanity door open. Also, keep the water running on a trickle. It'll prevent freezing. My basement is heated too, but my bathroom sink pipe still froze. It didn't burst thankfully, but it did freeze.

Heating fuel is expensive, but this is the weekend your thermostats should be set to 72 degrees for fri-sat. Don’t have an an expensive emergency in the name of saving money.

I got kicked out of a month to month lease because our landlord had to fix the plumbing on a 30 year old trailer. She said we were unplugging the pump. I just love to cause people financial hardships so my wife can do the dishes in the bathtub because the sink wont drain.

You have a full heated basement, you should be just fine. If you were in a trailer or on a slab you could have more to worry about. It hasn't been cold enough to freeze deeply and this weekend isn't going to flash freeze the ground that much. In the 30 yrs I've owned houses in my mid coast town, the only one to ever freeze up was on a slab and the water in pipe came to the slab and was just barely under the ground where it met the house and froze ONCE in the 10 years I had it. Now I have a full heated basement plus a woodstove down there, so I'm not phased by the cold now. I just hate when the power is out and we all have to sleep in the living room lol. Gotta get my house plug hooked up for my generator.

This isn't your Google search bar....

It's already happening. Filling employment openings in this state these days isn't working anymore.

Taking the dog out in this weather always stresses me out. I feel like I am torturing them. Had a dachshund and there was no way to make her hurry. Always had to put boots on her when it was in single digits. If I didn't, she would end up picking her feet up and not moving because she was in pain and of course wouldn't go.

Days like the one coming up always made me wish we had paper trained her.

If you have a mobile this is a bad idea unless maybe you have skirting around it that insulates beneath it. It can freeze and plug your sewer line. Found out the hard way "helping" a friend from keeping her pipes from freezing.

Wheww, that is going to be chilly. I'm going to be hiding inside survivinggg.

I use Better Help and I actually really like it! My shitty health insurance charges me more for therapy sessions than what I pay BH for 3 months of services at a time, which works out to $55/wk. I was matched with one therapist and saw them for awhile, then decided it wasn’t working out. I requested to be matched with someone else, and then I got to choose from a list/bios of available therapists. That was super helpful!

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What's even more sad is that is what is required instead of your friends and family being able to help. Therapists are just as fucked as the next guy. It's all a sham. Reddit hives u more sound advice than a rich Portland dr. Who could care less about you other than what your insurance brings to the table. Get better friends who will listen and give sound advice. Harder than finding what you are looking for but worth wayyy more.

Wait until May hit’s that is when we will get monsoons of rain into June