Corey,

You just pissed me off! You're b'itching about 22 degrees! Let me tell you about my day that started at 8am at -11 degrees.

So here goes:

I woke up this morning and the water didn't work. Checked the rest of the house and nothing worked. I was so scared because the water lines in my house are under the slab. If they freeze and bust you're talking thousands of dollars to repair. I traced the freeze to the boiler room and tried to use the water meter pressure to break the freeze. It work but not that well. Now the cold water was to a trickle in most places in the house.

So I put a little heater in there and it was just enough heat to figure out that the cold had actually busted the pipes. Luckily I only saw one of the breaks because I would have been really freaked out. So I went to work and clocked in and told my boss the situation and headed back home. By the time I got home there was water spraying all over the boiler room because the heater had thawed it out a bit. Now I'm really freakin out because I had to shut the main off so I could work on it but of course at anytime water in the rest of the lines could freeze and bust the pipes underneath the slab.

Long story short, I had to replace about 8 feet of pipe, three valves, a very expensive back flow preventer ($60), cut a hole in side of the furnace plenum to keep the pipes warm in the furnace/boiler room, put a new weather seal on the garage door (boiler/furnace room is in the garage), insulate the door on the boiler room, but insulation in the door jam around the boiler room door and clean up the mess. I'm exhausted and back at work.

Quit your b'tching and put on your cold gear and go shooting. The Hawkens is calling your name man.

Tom