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@bowhunter1023 how often does it get below 0 at your place?
Less than a half dozen days a year, and some years, it never does. This is the cold we used to get when my dad was little, so it's only atypical within the "climate change" era. It was rare to see the Ohio River freeze up from childhood until recent years. This will be the second winter in a row its happened. A lot of folks remember this weather happening Thanksgiving to Christmas back in the day, now winter is 6 weeks later than it was back then. But we're certainly on a "severe" winter trend the fast few years.
 
Had I brain teaser today, I had a section of my main cold water supply pipe frozen when I woke up in a hollow uninsulated raised floor above a slab that I didn't think would get could enough to freeze. Thawed it out but as soon as the pressure tank emptied no water. All the pipes were thawed. I believe the nipple of my pressure switch sits on had froze so my well pump wouldn't kick on. I thought my new pump was fried. Glad it's going, we were making plans of moving out until the thaw....
 
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Had -4 at our place outside Athens this morning, also. A coworker said the OU airport (or as I call it, Albany International) had -7.