Slow drip to prevent freezing...

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So it's cold as heck here in Florida this morning. Been below freezing for about the last 10 hours, and supposed to stay there for another 3 hours. Was all the way down to 23 degrees! And I'm in central florida, wowser this is cold. I'm originally from northern Illinois, so not a big deal, but it kinda is when they do not use frost free exterior water valves, and only a/c heating systems. Yes I said a/c heating systems. They are heat pumps that reverse the cooling cycle to heat the inside of the house and cool the outside. And they produce zero heat at all under about 20 degrees. Yes they work even in the 30's but not very efficiently.

Anyways, I dripped the water on the outside spigots here and they were fine and flowing water.

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There's one spigot I missed and she was frozen solid. I put a heat gun on it, and it's now flowing fine, so we're good. All except for having to heat the house now with a space heater as it's still in the 20's.