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On a humorous note....

 

We got an email from the apartment management, reminding us to keep the heat on, and to let the faucets drip so pipes didn't freeze, because, um, uh, the temps would be in teh 20s. Above zero. 

 

Wut? Is there no insulation in these units? Do pipes magically freeze 30-40 degrees warmer in OR than in MN?

I got the same email when the overnight low was 34 degrees.... 

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For those who have an off-season game thread Jones, we are going to pin this up and let it roll until baseball actually returns. For those of you who are actually named Jones… the reference has nothin

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Sure As I'm Sittin' Here, at least One person will Try A Little Tenderness by bringing a Three Dog Night reference to the table, attempting to tie the whole music and cold long night theme into the se

twinsnorth49
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I thought the Winter Solstice was the shortest day of the year. It's the longest night?   I'll be damned.

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And they refuse to use salt to melt the ice. Great for preserving your car, but not so good on the two days a year that it snows.

 

Good luck making it to the city, Mike! MAX might be running...

 

We live close to a Max station, but man, that would take A LONG time to get to SE.....I was supposed to have a new AWD SUV this week, but for some reason I don't. We plan to snow shoe and hike in the mountains (and ski), so AWD seems like it might be a good idea.....but again, the bigger issue, imo, is that people have rear wheel drive, older tires, bad cars for winter, and don't know how to drive (and the hills and ice).

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twinsnorth49 St Paul Saints

twinsnorth49

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I had a vendor out of Toronto. Several of them kept referring to how cold it was in Canada.

I finally explained to them that Minneapolis is south of Toronto.

Someone there had to look it up before they believed me.

Americans and their geography.

 

And Toronto isn't really Canada.

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Oldgoat_MN

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That seems like a contradiction...it would be a bigger story if Minneapolis was NORTH of Toronto...which it isn't.  The even bigger story is that Seattle is NORTH of Duluth!  This is the reason the Mariner's catchers are poor pitch framers!

Haha!

 

That's a good one on me!

 

I meant to write that Toronto is south of Minneapolis.

Completely mis-wrote that!

 

As for the other part...

Seattle catchers keep their hands in their pockets?

Isn't that dangerous?

wsnydes MVP

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Wut? Is there no insulation in these units? Do pipes magically freeze 30-40 degrees warmer in OR than in MN?

Insulation thicknesses and requirements aren't as high there as they are in MN and the pipes in the ground likely aren't buried as deep.  So yes, they very well could.  :)

 

Now that I've ruined your humor with seriousness, my in-laws moved to Tampa from Bemidji and they didn't follow the local instructions to let the faucets drip to keep the pipes from freezing early in their first winter there.  The pipes froze and they had to replace a couple of waterlines because of it.  

twinsnorth49 St Paul Saints

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On a humorous note....

 

We got an email from the apartment management, reminding us to keep the heat on, and to let the faucets drip so pipes didn't freeze, because, um, uh, the temps would be in teh 20s. Above zero. 

 

Wut? Is there no insulation in these units? Do pipes magically freeze 30-40 degrees warmer in OR than in MN?

In the 20's is below freezing though, I mean not pipe freezing below freezing but  below freezing nonetheless.

 

Embrace Metric people, embrace Metric.

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wsnydes

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In the 20's is below freezing though, I mean not pipe freezing below freezing but  below freezing nonetheless.

 

Embrace Metric people, embrace Metric.

But having a single base number for everything is hard.  Our way makes so much more sense...

Han Joelo FCL Twins

Han Joelo

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From what I'm reading and watching.....

 

There is no equipment to manage the roads, which makes sense if this happens 3 times a year...

People have NO IDEA how to drive in ice/snow

The hills are really steep (you don't know how flat MN is until you leave MN)

The schools were ridiculed after the last storm for closing, so of course they weren't going to close again

 

Pretty big cluster, really. I'm hoping we can get into the city today, for marriage counseling/brewery visit, and caroling on THE street in Portland for Xmas lights.....but I have my doubts.

Fixed that for you.

 

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Craig Arko

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On a humorous note....

 

We got an email from the apartment management, reminding us to keep the heat on, and to let the faucets drip so pipes didn't freeze, because, um, uh, the temps would be in teh 20s. Above zero. 

 

Wut? Is there no insulation in these units? Do pipes magically freeze 30-40 degrees warmer in OR than in MN?

When I lived in LA 40 degree nights felt damn cold.

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Sure As I'm Sittin' Here, at least One person will Try A Little Tenderness by bringing a Three Dog Night reference to the table, attempting to tie the whole music and cold long night theme into the season and bring a little Joy To The World.

 

Don't go off on a jeremiad.

 

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ashbury

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"Is Toronto north or south of Minneapolis?"

 

the correct answer:  "No."*

 

*"West" is the answer we were looking for.

I guess if you go to Wayzata and keep going far enough west, you do come back to Toronto.

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