After that snow we had the other day the weather went a bit to far in to the getting cold direction. As in down to -16C which is way colder by a good 12C than it normally gets here. As a consequence our water from the well has frozen in the pipes and we have no water pressure. Not good although we do have almost 2000 gallons of water in the storage tank to use so we are not totally stuck, just buckets are required to fill up the toilets and we have to boil water in a pot to wash dishes.
Still it shows we can survive here when it gets pretty bad. Driving in to town has been ok if a little dodgy in a couple of places on the road. Some quite severe ice in a few places meant being very careful but we got there and back safely. Heck even the UPS driver made it to our house but a pox on the Fedex driver who hasn't made it our here for 3 delivery attempts in a row now (well two out for deliveries and one day where they have not even tried).
I think we may actually have water tomorrow. Today we got to just about freezing point and some of the ice and snow it melting a bit. If that can continue the pipes should thaw out (especially now that I've lagged them, there were exposed before) and pressure will come back. If it doesn't then another call to the well people is in order to get them to look at it and sort it out. Fun.
Anyway, the debate now is what to have for dinner. Eat out and save on washing and stuff or do a frozen premade dinner in the oven so we don't have to make stuff dirty with cooking.
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