Preparing for winter II

Fruball

meanmarie wrote: »

We have had at least 15cm to-day...am thawing it in buckets and basins to flush the loos as we have had no water for 2 days....we will have to make a concentrated effort to-morrow to thaw pipes (insulated) so that we will have some for Christmas....my kitchen floor is a muck heap at present as dog, cats and humans are all dragging in snow on their feet and I can't find it in myself to use the water that we are buying to wash the floor...will keep collecting snow and maybe we will get enough that way!

I HATE SNOW!

Marie

Oh Marie :eek: That is just awful, poor you. Do you have heating? Any chance of a thaw in your area any time soon?

Or someone you can stay with if it continues?

(I actually feel quite embarrassed about my whinging yesterday as there are obviously people a lot worse off than me due to this weather )

Eenymeeny

So pleased about your washing machine Frugal..maybe I'll get some sleep tonight!:D
All this talk of hanging hot water bottles out of windows, casting spells etc! Good job we can laugh about it:)
Our bath wouldn't drain today and after trying to defrost pipes with hairdryer (OH) and heated wheatbag (Me) we got absolutely nowhere. Eventually discovered that the whole downpipe had frozen:eek:
Poor OH spent ages up a ladder in falling snow trying to sort it and eventually had to saw the pipe open to release the water (most of it over him! Poor dear, he's rigged up a temporary outlet for us and the whole thing will have to be replaced. Let's hope that doesn't freeze up:( Lots of good advice about frozen pipes on the InYourHome forum.:)

Fruball

Eenymeeny wrote: »

So pleased about your washing machine Frugal..maybe I'll get some sleep tonight!:D
All this talk of hanging hot water bottles out of windows, casting spells etc! Good job we can laugh about it:)
Our bath wouldn't drain today and after trying to defrost pipes with hairdryer (OH) and heated wheatbag (Me) we got absolutely nowhere. Eventually discovered that the whole downpipe had frozen:eek:
Poor OH spent ages up a ladder in falling snow trying to sort it and eventually had to saw the pipe open to release the water (most of it over him! Poor dear, he's rigged up a temporary outlet for us and the whole thing will have to be replaced. Let's hope that doesn't freeze up:( Lots of good advice about frozen pipes on the InYourHome forum.:)

OMG :eek: Sorry to hear you are having probs too

Hippeechiq

bluebag wrote: »

I'm not qualified to be psychic, I have the lesser grade of psychotic.

:rotfl: I know the moment has passed bluebag- but I've only just read todays posts, and just wanted to say, that the above quote is pure class! :T

Glad to hear you got your WM sorted Frugal :j
meanmarie sorry to hear you're having a rough time of it - hope you get a thaw and some water soon hun

Nuala Eenymeenyand meanmarie have got more snow than they know what to do with, but down here in Dorset (or at least the part I'm in) apart from our little covering on Friday, we had the predicted rain all day yesterday, and today has just been cold, dull and damp, but have had temperatures above freezing all day.

The British Isles maybe small, but we certainly have varying extremes of weather!

bluebag

Frugal.

WHOOHOO !WORKING WASHER GO YOU!!!!:T:T

So pleased you managed to get it working, it's such a simple thing but the frustration is awful.

bluebag

meanmarie wrote: »

We have had at least 15cm to-day...am thawing it in buckets and basins to flush the loos as we have had no water for 2 days....we will have to make a concentrated effort to-morrow to thaw pipes (insulated) so that we will have some for Christmas....my kitchen floor is a muck heap at present as dog, cats and humans are all dragging in snow on their feet and I can't find it in myself to use the water that we are buying to wash the floor...will keep collecting snow and maybe we will get enough that way!

I HATE SNOW!

Marie

Have you tried phoning your water supplier and explaining the situation? they may be able to get you a temporary water bowser or something.
Your situation is pretty dire really, no water supply in a first world country... beggars belief doesn't it?

Hope you get something sorted.

mrsr

meanmarie wrote: »

We have had at least 15cm to-day...am thawing it in buckets and basins to flush the loos as we have had no water for 2 days....we will have to make a concentrated effort to-morrow to thaw pipes (insulated) so that we will have some for Christmas....my kitchen floor is a muck heap at present as dog, cats and humans are all dragging in snow on their feet and I can't find it in myself to use the water that we are buying to wash the floor...will keep collecting snow and maybe we will get enough that way!

I HATE SNOW!

Marie

So sorry to hear your having such a bad time,it makes me realise we dont have anything to moan about here i consider myself lucky. We have had snow and freezing temps but so bad are pipes have frozen.Hope you thaw out soon

Rowan9

meanmarie - just caught up with the thread - sorry you are going through this! Hope for a thaw and no more snow for you
Hope everyone is as warm as poss tonight. Think it's about -9 here and even with the heating on it feels cold. DH is off out with the dogs and i am filling hot water bottles!
W

NualaBuala

meanmarie wrote: »

We have had at least 15cm to-day...am thawing it in buckets and basins to flush the loos as we have had no water for 2 days....we will have to make a concentrated effort to-morrow to thaw pipes (insulated) so that we will have some for Christmas....my kitchen floor is a muck heap at present as dog, cats and humans are all dragging in snow on their feet and I can't find it in myself to use the water that we are buying to wash the floor...will keep collecting snow and maybe we will get enough that way!

I HATE SNOW!

Marie

Oh Marie I feel for you, that's awful! I hope temperatures rise and you can get back to some sort of normality.

Eenymeeny wrote: »

So pleased about your washing machine Frugal..maybe I'll get some sleep tonight!:D
All this talk of hanging hot water bottles out of windows, casting spells etc! Good job we can laugh about it:)
Our bath wouldn't drain today and after trying to defrost pipes with hairdryer (OH) and heated wheatbag (Me) we got absolutely nowhere. Eventually discovered that the whole downpipe had frozen:eek:
Poor OH spent ages up a ladder in falling snow trying to sort it and eventually had to saw the pipe open to release the water (most of it over him! Poor dear, he's rigged up a temporary outlet for us and the whole thing will have to be replaced. Let's hope that doesn't freeze up:( Lots of good advice about frozen pipes on the InYourHome forum.:)

Your poor Oh - really hope your pipe troubles are over now.

Wondering what they do in Siberia to avoid these problems?

WillowMuse

The Cold Snap Is really Causing Problems For Everyone at the moment (((Hugs))) To you all.
After Our heavy down fall, it looks like a thaw has started, you wouldnt think so with the icicles on the houses though they look scary, as if the roof has grown teeth:eek:
Apparently we had a minor earthquake in the north of the region, Cumbria way:eek: What other surprises are we gonna get!!!!
Roads are terrible hear in Skem, as if we have been cut off from everyone, not nice
No Post since Friday either, Am awaiting a couple of Parcels that were sent out last wed and thursday, so god only knows when I will get them!!
Have put out some food for the poor birds, poor little things must have been starving because I have had whole groups come down to feed!!!
Keep safe everyone, I dont think this will let up anytime soon and if possible Have a Merry Christmas :beer: