I lived Holbrook, AZ for ten years. After I took things into my own hands, I don't think I ever had frozen pipes. In fact everyone in the neighborhood learned to call me when they had frozen pipes, because Sharron is a NUT, but her water would still be running, slushy, but running!So why are my pipes frozen this morning? Duh, didn't feel like messing with this last night! The picture was a good idea. When saw the heating pad peeking through, I took big binder clips out and wrapping tighter around the heating pad to keep the heat in. Yes, that is the old wool army blanket I was mending last week.
A FAVORITE MEMORY: Holbrook is in a high desert at about 5,300 to 5,500 feet. All of the land around it is higher so the cold air would sometimes all sink into that area and it would get COLD! One winter we had all kinds of freeze warnings that we were going to have some very cold weather, night and day, for an extended time. Now keep in mind, we didn't have central heat. My poor skinny little kids! They were getting a little modest by that time and they had to dress in front of the wall furnace or turn blue. It was especially hard for Mariah, she had the hardest time with the cold and she was the oldest.
So this one time, I decided that more desperate measures had to be taken. Jon didn't think it was necessary, but I was the one stuck at home getting three kids ready for school. Since our pump house had a big hole in the roof (from pulling the pump when it broke down, another winter adventure) so just a space heater wouldn't be very effective Warm air comes up out of the well hole and usually keeps the well head from freezing, but not always, so I didn't trust the box over that either. So the night before I REALLY annoyed Jon by insisting that we cover the roof hole, wrap the well head with the heating pad, wrap everything to do with the well with extra blankets and then cover it with the big old box to keep the cold air from it all. The next morning we had slushy water. Wish I had owned a digital camera at the time and had known what was going to come out of the faucet. I kept it running until the water was a little warmer from coming out of the ground, not just the pressure tank.
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This is the coldest morning of my kids lives so far. So we bundled them up, layers, and hoods, and so on. We were still cold until the car successfully warmed up, then all was well. But WOW...it's COLD out there! I am yearning for a day at home, under a big blanket, sipping hot cocoa and reading stories to my kids. This is was this kind of weather is for!!! But I didn't get my wish...my school has TWO water sources...so when one was frozen, they simply switched over to the other source. ANNOYING!!!!!
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