How ya'll down south dealing with the cold snap?

[Country Geek]

This past Friday I noticed water dripping into the top of one of my windows, which is under a place where two roof lines come together. Sure enough, I had a massive ice dam that had formed so I had to go onto my roof with a hoe and breakapart the ice dam. Luckily it was already warming up so my work got easier as the sun weakened the ice dam. I started off only being able to get 1-3 inches of it off at a time, by the time I was done I as breaking off huge iceberg like chunks.

I had never had an ice dam before and we've had bigger snow storms. I think the cause of this one was type of precip we had... an alternating mix of rain and snow that caused water to get trapped and freeze.

After my work had finished:

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For a North Carolina boy, this was a new experience!

 

[FTG-05]

It's 25 degrees here in SC TN with a light dusting of snow on top of frozen rain. My truck is encased in a 1/4" thick layer of ice, I can't even get into it, I'm afraid to break the door handles forcing it!

It was supposed to get up to 37 tomorrow, but now they're saying 34, so it's getting worse. At least it will be sunny.

50's and 60's all next week - thank god!!!

 

[FTG-05]

It's 25 degrees here in SC TN with a light dusting of snow on top of frozen rain. My truck is encased in a 1/4" thick layer of ice, I can't even get into it, I'm afraid to break the door handles forcing it!

It was supposed to get up to 37 tomorrow, but now they're saying 34, so it's getting worse. At least it will be sunny.

50's and 60's all next week - thank god!!!

 

[chad22]

It warmed up to 44F today. Tomorrow is gonna be even better with a high of 57F.

Right now it's 37F.

Hopefully we'll be out of the freezer soon. I'm ready for the oven. lol

 

[QRTRHRS]

This past Friday I noticed water dripping into the top of one of my windows, which is under a place where two roof lines come together. Sure enough, I had a massive ice dam that had formed so I had to go onto my roof with a hoe and breakapart the ice dam. Luckily it was already warming up so my work got easier as the sun weakened the ice dam. I started off only being able to get 1-3 inches of it off at a time, by the time I was done I as breaking off huge iceberg like chunks.

I had never had an ice dam before and we've had bigger snow storms. I think the cause of this one was type of precip we had... an alternating mix of rain and snow that caused water to get trapped and freeze.

After my work had finished:

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For a North Carolina boy, this was a new experience!

I did not have any ice dams but Wednesday morning I noticed rain water pouring down in front of one of the bedroom windows instead of draining down the pipe. I went outside and saw about ten feet of a fifty foot gutter hanging out where the bracket screws had failed. Sure wish I had seen that the day before when it was warm and not raining.

With freezing rain and ice in the forecast, I put a ladder up to get on the porch roof and was able to reach the gutter to put larger screws in. I put a plastic bag over my impact drill to keep it dry. While fixing that one, I noticed several screws pulled out of my porch roof gutter so I fixed those as well. The ground was so saturated that my ladder sunk in a good four inches. I got soaked to my skin but the gutter is intact, lol!

 

[DuckSlayer1017]

I think most of us up north hear your stories and think nothing of it because we are used to dealing with what you are going through for months on end. For us cold, ice and snow is just part of winter. It is definitely a pita if you are not used to it. It was 0 this morning with no wind and it felt kinda nice to me. A lot better than the -25 we had last week. They are calling for forties by next week in MI so maybe spring is about to arrive.