[Bogie Shooter]

National Weather Service Hard Freeze Advisories
The National Weather Service has Hard Freeze Advisories for Central Florida, including The Villages. Low temperatures are expected to be around 25 degrees on Saturday night and 33 degrees on Sunday night before a warming trend on Monday. Residents should take the time now to protect your property from the potential impacts of a hard freeze including:

Turn off pick up and put away outside garden hoses as they may freeze and burst;

Keep garage doors closed if there are water supply lines located inside;

Open kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors to allow warm air to circulate around the plumbing;

Keep the heating thermostat set at a consistent temperature both day and night;

If going out of town during cold weather, leave the heat on in your home. Set the thermostat to a temperature no lower than 55 °F, and open cabinet doors where there is plumbing;

Check that all storm windows and windows are closed and latched;

Close curtains and blinds at night to help insulate windows;

Minimize use of kitchen and bath exhaust fans;

Cover exposed pipes and plumbing;

Run your pool pump continuously when temperatures are near or below freezing. You don't need to run your heater, moving water will not freeze. Water feature pumps should be run and valves should be open;

Install backflow preventers or arrestors on outside faucets;

Cover plants susceptible to damage from freezing temperatures;

Do not run your sprinkler system during a hard freeze as this will cause damage to your irrigation system;

Minimize exposure to the cold and dress appropriately with gloves and hat which cover your ears,

[Bjeanj]

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about some of these.

[asianthree]

Sunday morning courses will not have tee times until 10am

[CWGUY]

Originally Posted by asianthree

Sunday morning courses will not have tee times until 10am

And pools will open at noon.

[Stu from NYC]

Is it necessary to trickle water from faucets?

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

And pools will open at noon.

For ice skating!

[mtdjed]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

For ice skating!

Cmon Man! This is the sunshine state. No snow shovels to clear the ice.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Is it necessary to trickle water from faucets?

Why would you do that? We never had to do that up north - is there something about faucets inside houses in Florida that makes them more likely to have problems if they aren't "off" when not in use?

Even the folks across the street who didn't have basements, didn't have to trickle their faucets.

But the outside spigots is good to remind me about - that's a thing we normally always did as part of our late Autumn preparation - rake the leaves, clean the gutters, and shut the water to the outside spigots off and remove the hoses.

Wondering now if we need to do anything special in the laundry shed. The shed itself is partially insulated but there's no heat in there. Should we buy a space heater and run it for an hour in there before bedtime maybe?

[tophcfa]

Really, talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. Cover sensitive plants and relax. A few short hours below 32 degrees is no big deal. Now, if you were on Cape Cod, that would be different. They are expecting about 30 inches of snow along with category one hurricane force winds.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by CWGUY

And pools will open at noon.

Bummer, there goes the Sunday morning lap swimming before afternoon golf : (

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Why would you do that? We never had to do that up north - is there something about faucets inside houses in Florida that makes them more likely to have problems if they aren't "off" when not in use?

Even the folks across the street who didn't have basements, didn't have to trickle their faucets.

But the outside spigots is good to remind me about - that's a thing we normally always did as part of our late Autumn preparation - rake the leaves, clean the gutters, and shut the water to the outside spigots off and remove the hoses.

Wondering now if we need to do anything special in the laundry shed. The shed itself is partially insulated but there's no heat in there. Should we buy a space heater and run it for an hour in there before bedtime maybe?

We have issues with laundry pipes freezing up north. It all depends how well insulated walls are around pipes, and here, manufactured homes are not well insulated at all. Hence the warning of opening sink cupboards. I may run a space heater in shed for an hour before bed where I have my laundry and stored all my potted plants.

[snhmhg]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Why would you do that? We never had to do that up north - is there something about faucets inside houses in Florida that makes them more likely to have problems if they aren't "off" when not in use?

Even the folks across the street who didn't have basements, didn't have to trickle their faucets.

But the outside spigots is good to remind me about - that's a thing we normally always did as part of our late Autumn preparation - rake the leaves, clean the gutters, and shut the water to the outside spigots off and remove the hoses.

Wondering now if we need to do anything special in the laundry shed. The shed itself is partially insulated but there's no heat in there. Should we buy a space heater and run it for an hour in there before bedtime maybe?

People here drip faucets inside to keep their outside well pumps kicking on to keep them from freezing up.

[Nucky]

The Manufactured Houses predominantly use PVC pipe for the plumbing under the home. “Northern homes” probably used copper or lead running to the outside spigots. It is a concern because the temperature has never been lower than what is forecasted since we’ve lived here.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

National Weather Service Hard Freeze Advisories
The National Weather Service has Hard Freeze Advisories for Central Florida, including The Villages. Low temperatures are expected to be around 25 degrees on Saturday night and 33 degrees on Sunday night before a warming trend on Monday. Residents should take the time now to protect your property from the potential impacts of a hard freeze including:

Turn off pick up and put away outside garden hoses as they may freeze and burst;

Keep garage doors closed if there are water supply lines located inside;

Open kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors to allow warm air to circulate around the plumbing;

Keep the heating thermostat set at a consistent temperature both day and night;

If going out of town during cold weather, leave the heat on in your home. Set the thermostat to a temperature no lower than 55 °F, and open cabinet doors where there is plumbing;

Check that all storm windows and windows are closed and latched;

Close curtains and blinds at night to help insulate windows;

Minimize use of kitchen and bath exhaust fans;

Cover exposed pipes and plumbing;

Run your pool pump continuously when temperatures are near or below freezing. You don't need to run your heater, moving water will not freeze. Water feature pumps should be run and valves should be open;

Install backflow preventers or arrestors on outside faucets;

Cover plants susceptible to damage from freezing temperatures;

Do not run your sprinkler system during a hard freeze as this will cause damage to your irrigation system;

Minimize exposure to the cold and dress appropriately with gloves and hat which cover your ears,

I suspect that there are thousands of us who come from the lands of ice and snow laughing our heads off at these draconian measures all because of six hours a little below freezing. Yes, cover tender plants, but otherwise this is excessive. Some of these are things I normally did in the fall, like emptying the hoses and disconnecting them, but a lot of these are things I would only do if I were closing up a seasonal house for the winter.

[terryf484]

I plan to drip water at kitchen sink. Tankless water system is on outside of garage wall and no protection for water lines. Something we use to do when fulltime RVing, when camping where there was going to be freezing temperatures.