Yikes, what area are you in?

State reps in NH are all the biggest lunatics.

?? I’m saying that I like New Hampshire a lot more since being in state college. Why are you butthurt about that hahah

Douche move

The person who received the oil can either pay for it or let the company come and pump it out. In NH, the law is in the favor of the oil company. The fuel that was mistakenly delivered is either considered lost or stolen property. I can't remember exactly how the law is worded.

I used to work for an oil company, and I had to deal with this happening too often. My company would always offer a hefty discount on the oil to get the person to pay for it. Going and pumping it out cost them a lot of money, so they never wanted to do that, and if a person was unwilling to pay for it or let it be pumped out, they weren't afraid to bring them to court.

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Wow, you experienced everything State College, PA had to offer. You're so cool and worldly and cosmopolitan.

What about non-violent felons that were bagged for Marijuana?

Looks like Friday will be quite windy though.

Beautiful. Beam me up!

If you haven't already winterized your car/truck coolant, that's got to be done asap or you risk serious engine damage

In NH & Vermont, you want to run a 50/50 coolant -water mix so the fluid tests to about -30 below zero

If you are burning wood in a typical wood stove you should use only hardwood (no pine or hemlock) get your chimney cleaned every year

If it's wood furnace or boiler, some of them can use all kinds of wood, so that's less of an issue

During serious cold snaps, hanging blankets or quilts in front of large windows can help.

You can buy or make window quilts just for this purpose, and they can cut your fuel/wood bills by 30% or more if you have them on every window

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74HDI2MxmrU&ab_channel=LarryDigney

Don’t go outside with wet hair.

Drink plenty of water.

You should already have a humidifier for your home. Use it.

Cold air is dry air.

if your car battery is 5 years old then it will be lucky to survive those temps

yeah, its just a blink, not even thinking about it. these were common wintertime temps for us growing up. if it was staying for weeks/months then you need to be concerned, but as its being followed by practically springtime temps, no biggie.

I'd sure as shit rather go to UML than Penn State

Really the biggest risk in cold is the risk of water freezing. If you live in an old house that is poorly insulated, pipes in unheated crawl spaces or along outside walls risk freezing and splitting. If you have a sink on an outside wall, simply open the doors under the sink to let the heat in. Run the water once in a while. If you’re just not sure, pay attention to how cold the water comes from the taps around the house including washing machine. If the water is getting near freezing, it’s cheaper to trickle the water than pay for repairs.

Your septic is fine. The pipes and tank are below the freeze line.

The last few years have been abnormal or the new normal. Used to be the ground was frozen from sometime in November until spring.

This isn’t our first cold snap rodeo. You’ll be fine

Everyone has covered everything, but just to calm your nerves a bit, we get short bouts of extreme cold yearly, and so as a region we’re very prepared for it. This will only be 36 hours of extreme cold. Everything will be fine. No one will lose power over the temperature. Wind is another issue, but dry leafless trees can take strong winds. The only real concern in my opinion is freezing pipes, which is easily preventable.

Biggest thing - and it’s just cold so you likely don’t need to do much but it’s always good to plan - is assume you’re not going to be able to go go anywhere and that your power goes out. Are you ready?

Do you have non perishable, doesn’t need to be cooked food? Lots of water? CHARGE YOUR PHONE and get a backup battery if you don’t already have one. Figure out how to kill the boredom if power goes out. Have a dog? Figure out how they won’t freeze too. And just wait. It’ll be fine. You got this. Now’s the time for your warmest blankets, best sweatpants, good slippers, and if it’s your jam, a nice beer or whiskey.

While technically this guy was nonviolent, practically he was arrested with pipe bombs that he was planning on smuggling into the Ed and Elain Brown compound, presumably to use as booby traps when the feds came in to take possession of that compound to pay back taxes. Like seriously, this guy is like the most violent nonviolent offender imaginable, and had things gone slightly differently, in ways beyond his control, mind you, he would be serving life without parole.

Edit: for how this could go differently. Step 1. The feds decide to storm the compound instead of using trickery, and someone dies to a pipe bomb booby trap Gerhard made. That is literally all that is needed to turn this guy into a violent offender, and make sure that he spends his whole life in prison.

I think it's awesome. Good job.

I'm going to open the cabinets under all my sinks to mitigate pipes freezing. I'm also going skiing Saturday, so maybe I'm not the best example of good judgement.

If any of your water lines run remotely close to the exterior of the house or are in areas that can get cold and are not insulated leave a small stream of water dripping, so your lines don’t freeze. If it’s a Kitchen faucet with cabinets underneath leave the cabinet doors open, so heat from the room will help permeate the cold area.

Unrelated to extreme cold, but related to winter: learn about roof raking. And ice dams. I had leaks into the interior of the house from ice dams my first winter here because growing up in the South I never heard of such things.

Very true very very true

thanks, sailor!