Yes, it finally happened. The Vermont cold was so sub-zero yesterday that my water line froze out to the barn. This never happened once with Athena. Jim says it's due to "global colding." And to the lack of insulating snow cover.
What to do? The line comes from the house and is well underground, unreachable. The house end is not frozen; we tested that. There's a working heat tape on the standpipe at the barn end. So it's got to be below. Ack.
All I know is that we've either got daily bucket brigades ahead of us until the global warming cycles back in a couple of weeks or we use a garden hose stretched out from the house, a tentative solution at best until a thaw arrives.
I wish I owned a 100-foot length of my friend's new product, the Pirit Heated Hose. The inventor, Willie Ferrone, lives right here in Vermont, a couple of towns north, raises Labs at his Skyes Hollow Farm, and has a barn full of horses. After going through Frozen Barn Water over enough winters, he decided to design and manufacture a heated hose. And now you see it everywhere including on Amazon. Go Willie!
Guess I'm off to rig up the hose. Those of you who can, send some warmth up to Vermont!
Do you have any frozen water pipe stories?
31 January 2010
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