Cold weather's coming

The plumbers are working their way around campus this week turning off all of the outdoor faucets, even the freeze-proof ones, because of the coming cold. I opened doors for them to turn off both of the faucets at work. One can leak without causing much trouble (it's in the back of the foundry, and there is a floor drain), but the other one's in our server room.

This always reminds me that I need to redo the back faucet some day (freeze-proof spigot and ball valve shutoff), but until something goes wrong with it, I'm not going to do anything.

I did, however, shut off and bleed down both faucets at home, just in case.

Channel 3 is currently predicting -17F Thursday night, with -40F windchill.