tears of the kingdom

Left some water bottles in my car overnight last night and I thought they would be frozen when I got them out this morning, but they weren't. Then I got excited because I thought they were supercooled and would turn into ice when jostled, so I slammed one down on the kitchen counter, but nothing happened. Disappointed, I opened it to drink and that's when it froze.

So I’d like to start a thread of stuff that’s actually useful by southerners, for southerners.

-black out curtains or heavy blankets on the windows make a huge amount of difference - but if you can lower your blinds, put a piece of foam board or that reflective roll insulation in the window and then hang black out curtains in front of it that is ideal.

-take your window units out of the window and close the window. TAKE YOUR WINDOW UNITS OUT OF THE WINDOW AND CLOSE THE WINDOW. TAKE 👏 YOUR 👏 WINDOW 👏 UNITS 👏 OUT 👏 OF THE WINDOW 👏 AND 👏 CLOSE 👏 THE 👏 WINDOW 👏

- If you have windows inset into your doors cover them. They’re little baby bitch glass 99% of the time.

- rugs on the wall that faces into the wind if you live somewhere unbearably windy.

- close doors to rooms you aren’t using, hang blankets if you don’t have doors. Pick a room or two you’re going to spend most of your time in and concentrate most of your efforts there.

-if you have a well/pump house you can typically run a little outlet there for about $30 in material from the hardware store and run a little tiny space heater or radiator to keep it from freezing. If you don’t have the electrical know-how to do that it is worth the couple hundred in labor to have someone do it rather than repairing it year after year.

- if you have an RV and it’s not adequately heated please for the love of fuck drain the water heater and turn the water off.

First post on tumblr, dedicated to Chandra and Nissa <3 Based on the painting "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt