It's getting ugly cold out there and I done woke up with some sort of creeping crud in my chest. Hacking and sniffling here. Frigging sucks but I got to get out in it. Y'all stay safe, hydrated and up to snuff on your vitamin C.

Probably swing by the liquor store while I'm out for a bottle of cure, drambuie. That hot tea, lemon, and honey should have me not feeling it by morning, lol.

Throw some elderberry in there too buddy! Get well.

Saturday was dang cold for SWGA. That wind had me chilled. Yesterday morning was cold, but not windy like the day before. Yesterday afternoon had me out of my jacket and base layer top. I wear chaps during the hunts and learned early on to not wear base layer bottoms, lol.
With that said we hunt this coming Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. 10-15mph winds both days with a low of 25 Saturday morning and a high of 45. I’ll definitely be layered up from top to bottom. I know that’s not cold to some of y’all, but we just don’t get those kinds of temps often. We’ll start running water outa the outside spigots tomorrow night and probably leave them running for a week.

6 below this morning

Careful with that coughing crap, imagine it's some strain of that covid crap but whatever it is EVERYONE is getting it and it's spreading like wildfire. Put's you down and you stay down! Id be seeing a doc and getting started on some anti biotic's ahead of time if i were you.

Looks like -5 wind chills, a bit cool for this far south. lol.

You think it is cold there. - 20 last night wind chill is 40 to 45 below. Thawing out frozen waters right now, got to keep the sheep watered.

Is that a normal winter for y’all? Cause these temps aren’t, lol.

KY Bourbon will help. If it doesn't you won't mind being sick.

Rapid City had a wind chill of -75 the other day thats usually our banana belt region. LOL -19 here the other day warming up to the mid 30s by the weekend that is more normal temps.

It's a balmy -5 here right now with a wind chill of -29

When the weather get cold as it is now I use Lot of garlic in my cooking also drink alot of tea with honey pluse vitamins C and zinc.

Well I traced down the source. My oldest girl's youngest is hacking and snifling as well. I swear it's like these grandyounguns are out to get me, lol.

I think I'm going to dose and dip the whole bunch of them.

Don't matter I'll haul them out on the line if it kills me. My middle girl's youngest went today. She is still not sure about the old man tailing possums, lol.

This thread jinxed me…CJ woke up puking today. A couple weeks ago my son and his family had a 24hr stomach bug and running a fever. I don’t have time for that, so I’m gonna take a hard pass at getting sick!!

Ain't no staying warm here. 3 degrees low tonight, and NEGATIVE 3 tomorrow. In Mississippi. This is BS.

Add in the humidity and it even gets the mountain west folks a shivering. About 3 inches of snow on the ground and a balmy 20 degrees now.

You got that humidity part right J Staton. Had a friend out from Long Island New York hunting here at -2 a few yrs back.

Said it was the coldest he had ever been in his life, Lol.

Remember another time hunting with him in W. Texas at a balmy 2 degrees, and the locals went into hibernation....Seems like we were the only ones crazy enough, and pretty much had the panhandle to ourselves that day.

How much trouble is that going to cause for folks as far as frozen pipes and such?

Huge issues. Code for burying water lines is eight inches over most of the deep south if any code at all.

You can imagine how the houses are insulated. Standard 2x4 stud, 1/2 osb sheathing, house wrap, kraft backed fiberglass, sheetrock is standard fare. Water lines should, but often don't, enter below grade. Crawlspace has water lines running under the joists on hangers. Almost never insulated joist bays and ground vents open year round. Basements never heated. Attics always ventilated soffit, gable, ridge and fan. Some newer construction runs water through attic, go figure.

Spray foam gaining popularity for retrofit and some high end new.


Last bad cold snap to hit Atlanta had fire response compromised due to loss of pressure in the lines once things thawed.

I'll let you know in the morning, lol.

We have a 3/4 mile long driveway and in places you can SEE the water lines.