+1 for lemm.ee. The admin team is awesome, the instance is very stable, and the users are pretty chill. It’s like the meme where there’s a guy with a bong while the other people (aka the 2-3 biggest instances) are fighting.

Fire in the Sky. Oh wait, maybe I shouldn’t have. I haven’t watched it again since because I was so traumatized as a kid watching it. Maybe I have the guts to watch it now decades later.

OMG water finally came out! I left the faucet open then ran hot water in the bathroom sinks and showers to get the water heater pumping. After around 10 mins, drops started coming out, then a trickle, then finally full blast. I’m just happy nothing seems to have been broken. Thanks for the responses! Oh and to answer your question, we don’t even have a crawlspace, the house just sits straight on top of the foundation.

Here’s what it looks like under the sink:

The upper left tube is what I believe the hot water, the upper right the cold, and the one at the bottom is for the dishwasher. I don’t know if I’m capable of finding where exactly in the house the piping froze. Can I just wait it out since we’re well above freezing until sunset later?

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately I also did the same, just dripped the cold faucets. Thankfully the rest of our plumbing seems to work fine though. And ironically our kitchen sink is on an island in the middle of the kitchen, so not by an exterior wall. The pipes under the sink don’t feel frozen and I left the doors open overnight to keep them exposed to the heating. I believe our house uses pex as well. Did you just leave it open on a hot setting? I’ll probably try doing that and see if it eventually flows.

Thanks for the response.

Where is your shutoff valve in case your pipe froze and split?

Do you mean the main shutoff for the entire house? It’s outside and I can shut if off if necessary. Every other faucet in the house works fine though, and there doesn’t appear to be a loss in pressure.

Feel the pipe under the sink. Is it frozen?

It doesn’t feel frozen. The pipe for the cold water even feels colder.

Try to get heat to the pipe by opening the cupboard doors to expose that wall to the heat.

Our kitchen sink is on an island in the middle of the kitchen, so it’s not by an exterior wall. I’ve also kept the cupboard doors under the sink open throughout the night.

Turn your home thermostat up a few degrees.

Out thermostat is at 70F the entire time. Do I need to turn it up even higher?

Someone handed me a rake and in perfect cartoon fashion, I stepped on it and wacked myself in the face.

Of course I didn’t just take its word for it. I still didn’t trust it enough to leave it at that. It was a fun exercise to do though.

The winter storm was set to arrive while I’m traveling, and I needed to drip our faucets to avoid our pipes bursting. I didn’t want to waste water from a dripping faucet for more than a week, so I asked duckduckgo AI to calculate how much water will 1 drop a second accumulate and if it will overflow on a standard baththub with the drain closed. I can do the math myself, but it’s easier for AI to do it.

The need to pee and poop.

I still wear clothes that I got 12-15 years ago. So I would say at least a decade at the minimum.

Depending on your level of comfort, over-ear headphones can be less or more hot than on-ear ones (rests around the ears vs on the ears). Openback headphones are open on the sides so they theoretically should be cooler as well.

Avocado shake, at least in the western world. Unless you come across one at an asian shake/milktea shop, and even then, that menu item is rare.

The guy who invented vaccines.

I walk around the house with a swiffer mop before I take a shower. Then vaccum the carpets in the rooms once a week. Showering is usually the trigger to do some sort of maintenance cleaning in the house. My logic is that if I’m gonna get dirty, I’ll do it before I shower.

I assume because people follow topics on lemmy, unlike microblogging where people have to follow each other to interact (one-to-many vs one-to-one). So it’s easier to interact with many people that you don’t necessarily had to be following prior, which increases the chances of interacting with more people.

I guess it depends on the viewer’s tastes. It was hilarious to me personally. The overly serious way he describes his metrosexual routine, the importance of the quality of business cards, etc. The horror aspect and gore takes a backseat for me and I view it as a comedy.

Wait, isopropyl alcohol is toxic even just for external use? I use it as a hand sanitizer daily.

Trying searching for communities with “OSINT” in it. That should point you in the right direction.

Does your local grocery store have store brand softdrinks? They can taste similar. Our local store has good quality store brand products that are sometimes better than their name brand counterparts. Obviously if you only have Walmart, then that’s not a model corporation and you’re out of luck.