Meanwhile in Norway ...

The coldest spot when I drove to work just now was -15 °C, which is quite cold for where I live now, but Oslo could get much colder (and probably is right now).

Edit: I checked. It is colder here. 🥶

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@oschonrock Pipes freeze and crack, start leaking, then it gets colder and the water freezes. Happens quite a lot in cabins and houses not permanently occupied in Norway.

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@veronica I hope you're not going to Oslo...

@veronica ah, it's the DIY ice hotel starter pack

@paulk It's actually colder here. I checked. We sometimes had below -20 in Oslo when I lived there. That's very rare here. I also lived in Northern Norway for a bit, and the coldest we had then was -35. I was not outside in that cold, but I did spend time outdoors in -28.

@Veronica Olsen omg, what a mess!

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Me: Mom, I need to go to the toilet
Mom: Ofc, here, take this pickaxe and blowtorch with you dear

@veronica and I thought our office toilets were cold...

@veronica
WTF !?

OTOH, there are predictions for -13°C next monday here in the south....

@veronica have you tried flushing it?

@veronica @cstross no such thing as cold weather, only bad plumbing.

@veronica Ah, pity. When I first saw it I assumed it was the newly renovated Lincoln bathroom in the White House. ‍️

@veronica wow At this point I'd be happy it's not frozen sewage xD

@veronica Looks like every hotel I stayed at in Scotland after I was done with a shower because they didn't understand that it's possible to build a shower that contains the water.

@veronica must have been a serious leak for the toilet's drain not to keep up with it!

(Or the trap was already frozen)

@veronica An ig-loo?

@veronica I… don't think it's supposed to do that.

@veronica but wouldn't one drain the pipes before leaving a building over winter unoccupied? @oschonrock