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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ideasguy on December 23, 2010, 12:33:41 AM
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Wrap up and have a look at this photo!
Julian took this snap of the temperature gauge in his car yesterday morning.
Tuesday, 21st Dec 2010 at 8:00 - Between Kinallen and Dromore - N Ireland
(http://www.ideasforgardens.com/forumpics/Minus%2017%20degrees.JPG)
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bbrrrr it was tropically mild ;D ::) -11 in Newcastle West at midnight on Wednesday
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Minus 9 here on Christmas night.
Malcolm
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Today we woke up to a thaw. All the lovely patterns on the trees were gone first thing.
But - we have no water!
Went to sons house about 3pm yesterday, came home - no water from the mains tap. Thought perhaps it was turned off by the Water Services. This morning, no change. Checked witrh neighbours - their water was on.
Had to connect our outside water hose to neighbours. Still no water, flexible hose frozen. Had to take it apart (covered in ice and snow) and indoors and thaw by running parts of the hose through a bucket of warm water. Got it all connected again, and with the outside tap opened, the water came in "in reverse" and filled the header tank (a huge relief at this stage as it was almost empty) and we had water from our mains tap.
Stayed connected like that all day, as we had all the family for Turkey dinner. Dont know how we would have managed if we had been filling buckets of water as we did earlier in the day.
After dinner, I disconnected the supply from next door, and still no water from mains :'(
Its been raining here for a few hours, and quite mild.
I'm assuming its a bit of ice in the mains supply, before it gets to my stop cock, or some other type of blockage.
Has this ever happened to any other members?
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Hopefully the pipe underground has not burst and water is escaping under the ground, hence no water at the house.It might be worth having a look between house and road for any water coming up from the ground. ::)
Malcolm
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No sign of that Malcolm, and still no water mains.
Bigger crisis at present, unfortunately (see other topic)
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You don't need this as an additional problem George!
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Indeed, Eric. Still no mains supply.
Cant complain too much, since I hooked up by hose to next door neighbour. I'm sure you have seen the news where thousands are without water in N Ireland.
The emergency contact numbers for the Water Services appear to be so inundated with callers that their customers give up trying to get advice after hours of hanging on to a phone. Not good enough :'(