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Well, I'll take a Minnesota winter over earthquakes, brush fires and mudslides any day.Living in California, I've never heard of that before. Hope that warmer weather will help or will you have to replace the floor?
Roger that!! Here in VT we've had almost two full weeks of subzero (F) weather with chill factors in the -20s-30s, then 2 days of 40-50 degree rain, then back to the deep freeze again. -14F outside right now. Well pump pipe froze, hauling water. Furnace oil gelled despite the additive, but got it going during the thaw. Mobile home piers going up and down like the San Andreas fault. BUT, NO earthquakes, wildfires, or mudslides! Works for me.Well, I'll take a Minnesota winter over earthquakes, brush fires and mudslides any day.
Here in VT slabs are now required to be poured with foam board insulation around the perimeter and sloping outward below grade to a width of four feet. No more "Galloping Gerties".I'll probably have to wait for the spring thaw (just four months to go!) and then re-pour the whole slab.
Well, I'll take a Minnesota winter over earthquakes, brush fires and mudslides any day.
I live in the part of the state without all of that. If the ground shakes here, it's somebody else's quake. The wildfires are up in the mountains and hills as are any mudslides.Roger that!! Here in VT we've had almost two full weeks of subzero (F) weather with chill factors in the -20s-30s, then 2 days of 40-50 degree rain, then back to the deep freeze again. -14F outside right now. Well pump pipe froze, hauling water. Furnace oil gelled despite the additive, but got it going during the thaw. Mobile home piers going up and down like the San Andreas fault. BUT, NO earthquakes, wildfires, or mudslides! Works for me.
Cheers,
Wes
Thanks Mike. There may be a number of things about California that I find bothersome, but considering the weather problems where each of you live, I might like to visit but not take up residence.Larry, don't want to steal his thunder but a "frost heave" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Liquid water gets under something, the temperature drops and the liquid water freezes, ice expands as it forms, it's why frozen pipes crack. So as the liquid water freezes and expands it pushes up (heaves) on whatever it is under. You see the effects anywhere the temperature falls below the freezing point. Sidewalks heave and crack/tilt, potholes develop in roadways, nails rise up out of wood planks as wet wood freezes and expands, gutters can pull away from roofs and so can siding
No doubts here! I'll take the evils I know over the evils I've only heard about any day.Larry, I don't know if I'd trade Kalifornia's massive forest fires, massive mud-slides, lack of water, San Andreas fault, and anti-second amendment policies for the occasional snow storm and frost heave.
Hope it wasn't for anything too serious Bill.Having to get up after a sleepless night.
Here Wayne, this might help, the view from my deck looking toward the dam, stinking hot does not have to be shoveledstinking hot day..
That's powdered sugar. He only wants you to think that it's cold.