Cold weather!!!

[DONNIE]

If its any consolation it was 9 degrees here last night. My pool is not winterized and it's uncovered. I have been running my pump 24/7 and the water temp is below 40F. Right now there is 4" of sleet surrounding it. My fountain gets a large icecicle on it that I have to knock off every 24 hours but other than that all seems fine. I was worried sick about the freezing weather but now I know what my plumbing can endure.

Donnie

[aquarium]

I gave up trying to manage the equipment runtime to avoid freeze damage. I took the drain plugs out of the pumps, opened the pump basket, and set the multiport valve to an intermediate setting so it is open to air. Our lows may go into the low twenties, rarely to the teens, but doesn't stay there long so it's not a hard freeze.

It is however now snowing here in the Texas hill country, and that's rare.

[dawndenise]

I'm probably located between DONNIE and aquarium. I have an open, unheated, saltwater pool. The norm here is to keep pools open.

Our low last night was also near the single digits. Our last above-freezing temps were sporadically on Friday, all below freezing since with the major ice storm that came through. My freeze protection has kept the pump on 24/7 since Friday morning . I've also been running the booster pump constantly. My filter has insulation wrap around it (made me feel better) and there's a styrofoam water spigot cover over the pressure gauge. The water temp was down to 40 two days ago and about 39.5 yesterday (haven't ventured out to check it today).

We had a bit of melting yesterday in the sun, even with below-freezing temps. Hopefully, we'll see more sun today and maybe get to 33 degrees.

As long as we don't lose power and the pumps can still run, things should be OK. If we don't break freezing today, at least we should have highs in the 30's and 40's the rest of the week. We'll still drop below 32 overnight, but that won't be as worrisome as these last several days' temps have been.