50 Photos That Show Just How Insanely Cold It Is In America Right Now

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I'm not sure if you're serious or not... maybe people from warm places don't know that that's just what happens when you breathe into the cold air?

I stand corrected. :)

The entire video shows him vaping 1st. Still very cool to watch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3aCzSQ6pUNE

Of course. Silly me :)

It is an old property poorly insulated I saw the original post on reddit

Oh yeah. I live in a 148 Condominium Complex built in 1994-96 and between 2008-20010 there was several units that people walked away from do to foreclosures and every single one of them had burst pipes in the cold winter- one right after the other. They were all bank owned and our HOA had to pay for everyone of them (which in turn left all the other homeowners having to pay). There was probably 20-25 units that every other homeowners had to pay for from through the HOA funds.

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It looks more like the degree of insulation. Water freezes at 0 C(32 F apparently) but it's kind of supposed to be warmer inside a house than that, no matter the temperature outside...especially where the pipes are concerned. For water to just freeze solid like this, is their bathroom straight outside bar a cardboard box or something? That's awful(the insulation/heating rather than the weather).

Worst I had was -25 C°, or something like that. My first Korean winters back in 2010/2011/2012. It is officially advised to leave the water in the faucets running a little bit, to prevent from freezing. Also, never turn off your boiler and secure its pipes. Laundry is forbidden (kinda so, in apartment buildings).

We get -50C (-58F) from time to time (not too often luckily, but -40C -(40F) is not rare) and this has never happened to anyone I know. I'm curious if this was even colder or we just have insulation / pipes / etc designed around the expected cold factor? (Saskatchewan, Canada)

@fullname No I’m referring to repiping!!! That’s very expensive if one would have to do that to an entire (older) house.

You can get a toilet for $100. No chance you'd make a claim for $100.

Just slide it off the door.

That is ridiculous!

That's how I grew up. Grandpa and Gramma were cheifs, and the rest consisted of about 1/4 of the town. I never thought of it as a possible career, back then, just something the community took care of.

VFD, anyone?

Where do u live Shari?

same here

Firefighters are paid with city or country funds. They are not federal government employee. Try again.

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They still get paid in the end. Stop trying to make it sound like something it's not.