Message #575781

[Reuben]

Old Man...I remember them days...blocking and draining the water before a freeze and the next morning as it warmed up we would wrap a rag on a stick and add a little fuel and made a torch and we started thawing out water lines until the water started flowing...even though that was 90 miles northwest from here it froze in that area quite a bit more than here in Freeport...

Having said that...back all through the 1970’s and 1980’s we performed freeze protection on a regular basis  in the chemical plants...1990 comes around and they very seldom implement freeze protection...many  employees have never experienced it and those that have haven’t done it very often...