Chicago Pipes

[Johnny Dangerr]

Asked a guy up there today how their pipes in their houses could take sub zero temps for days.
Twenty six degrees for 2 days in Houston would do billions in damage of broken pipes.
Anybody know what the difference is in piping???

[HogHunter34]

I’ve wondered the same especially when power is lost for hours or even days. Is there any piping in the exterior walls or all interior runs? In for the answer

[TxAg]

Their piping is insulated and their walls are thicker. If you lose power, you let the water run.

[Uncle Saggy]

Their piping is insulated and their walls are thicker.

Incorrect, totally incorrect

I speak from experience

[Grndchecker]

I asked the same question to someone from Chicago. He said all the pipelines run deep underground and come up through the slabs. His house was smaller and they only heated the living room, kitchen, and one bathroom. Usually had one inch thick ice on the inside of the windows.

No thanks! Anything below 50 is freezing to me.

[HogHunter34]

Well it’s so cold in Chicago they are setting train tracks on fire to keep the switching mechanisms from freezing up is what I saw on the news

[Uncle Saggy]

I asked the same question to someone from Chicago. He said all the pipelines run deep underground and come up through the slabs. His house was smaller and they only heated the living room, kitchen, and one bathroom. Usually had one inch thick ice on the inside of the windows.



No thanks! Anything below 50 is freezing to me.

Wow
First off, most homes have basements, not slabs.

Spent 30 years there, never seen ice on the inside of a window
Other than an uninsulated jolousey (?) window

Where do you all come up with this nonsense ?

[Electrican]

Well it’s so cold in Chicago they are setting train tracks on fire to keep the switching mechanisms from freezing up is what I saw on the news

I seen that to along with the finest robbing people’s coats at gunpoint.

[Txtourist]

Here in Minnesota, we have insulated 2x6 exterior walls and furnaces that run from October through April. Plumbing supply lines do not go in exterior walls, only interior walls and joist spaces to the inside edge of outside walls. Yes there is frost and today a bit of ice on the bottoms of some windows. It's not actually below 32f in our homes, it's just condensation gathering at the bottom of the window and freezing. Yes, somebody get me out of here fast! I changed a door out while hunting at a friends place in the hill country, and was blown away by how little insulation and building materials were in the walls, but why use more than you need?

[RR 314]

I bet their crime rate is the lowest it has been in quite some time. :-).

[TxAg]

Incorrect, totally incorrect

I speak from experience

I watched a house getting built on the side of a ski slope. I wven stayed the week in it. The walls were thicker and the pipe was insulated. I realize not wvery house is like this, but they certainly took measures to protect it.

[Uncle Saggy]

I watched a house getting built on the side of a ski slope. I wven stayed the week in it. The walls were thicker and the pipe was insulated. I realize not wvery house is like this, but they certainly took measures to protect it.

Oh, I agree with that for some of the new homes.

[MLank]

I watched a house getting built on the side of a ski slope. I wven stayed the week in it. The walls were thicker and the pipe was insulated. I realize not wvery house is like this, but they certainly took measures to protect it.

Chicago has ski slopes?

[Artos]

Check out the vid of the light pole

https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-camera-captures-15-inches-of-snow-falling-in-13-seconds

If anyone remembers the 89 freeze, I was in the very NW corner of MO to load up my crap from college to head home when it blew through & when I say it was painful...I mean anything exposed hurt when loading the bronco up.

I drover through the edge of the front around Kansas City with flurries & stopped in Ardmore OK with temps in the 80's for the night before meeting my sister who was at Baylor at the time the next day. Being a valley boy, I didn't pay attn to why all the other hotel patrons were parked with their noses pointing south. I woke up to 3" of ice on my windshield pointing north that took a couple hours of idling before I hit the road.

That freeze ruined us here in the valley...nothing I want to deal with again but when the news tells you to take shallow breaths when going outside & we already have multiple deaths due to temps into the double digit sub zeros?? Yikes...no thanks.

[curtintex]

Chicago has ski slopes?

Well, they have lots of ski masks.