Last year I went to Florida in February. It was 85 degrees. Do you have any cold weather gear?
Ty cold weather gear here is retiring the flip flops and short, put on the long pants and most time I wear a long sleeve shirt as a jacket!! I have a couple of heavy jackets but when y0u see me bring them out, it has gotten cold. Its not bad here today, except for the wind. It is up to 36* and a wind of 13 - 15 mph. That puts at about 26. The high today is not predicted to go above 38* with even higher winds tonight.
The one good thing about Florida we
usually only have cold weather a few days at a time!! Then it warms up along comes the rain and the temperatures drop again. These past few years have been strange, cold when it is not supposed to be and hotter than normal!
I remember about 24 yrs ago I had bought an old house and had it moved to the property we were living on at the time. I had to finish digging the footings. It rained and the temperature went to 12 degrees and wind index drove it done to -10. The Christmas shut down was the only time I had to get the footings dug. So I suited up in my insulated coveralls, double gloves, (cotton inside and leather outside) and went out to dig footings. The ground was froze nearly a foot deep. All I could do was cut the lines for the footing, then break out the center with a pick ax. Then shovel out the center. After an hour, I had shucked the coveralls as I was getting way too hot. I only got about 12' dug in that hour. I said the heck with this and went by the firewood pile, grabbed an armload of wood and sit inside by the fire!!
Another side to this story. My in-laws had an old house that had belonged to her Grandmother, it had been broken up into three units. It was and off grade and had only been skirted on the North side. It had no insulation and when freezing was expected the tenants were supposed to let the water drip. She paid the water bill and she said she would rather pay that than to fix plumbing!
One guy had rented all the units for his large family, so when it was predicted to have this cold spell, I told him to be sure and
let the faucets run, a small stream about the size of a pencil, as a drip would not do it for this cold! He calls me the first morning as says I got no water everything froze last night! So I told him nothing I can do till it warms enough to thaw out all that old galvanized pipes. Three days later it warmed enough for the pipes to began thawing.
I fixed 27 busted pipes under that old house.
This fellar was a skinflint so he left the heat off at night! So you can guess what happened. Some pipes even inside the house, such as water lines under the sink and to the back of the toilet. One toilet broke the tank and after that I never had to tell them again about the water!!
