Re: URGENT - Help/Advise - Sewer Line Froze
another vote for Michigan Power Rodding.
Dan
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 5:14?PM mneuliep < Martin@...> wrote: Forget Roto Rooter, call Michigan Power Rodding? ? Hi, all,
I just popped into the basement to check on the laundry, and found water backing up from all three of the floor drains that go to the outside line. That suggests to me that the pipe froze outside.
I phoned Roto-Rooter, and they will call back in the morning. My question is what to do in the meantime. I assume, stop running water (except for the one sink with a pipe on an outside wall). I read on the internet to run hot water, but I think that could backfire if the ice plug is outside the house.
Does anyone have experience with something like this?
THANK YOU!
/PF
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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Re: URGENT - Help/Advise - Sewer Line Froze
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 5:14?PM mneuliep < Martin@...> wrote: Forget Roto Rooter, call Michigan Power Rodding? ? Hi, all,
I just popped into the basement to check on the laundry, and found water backing up from all three of the floor drains that go to the outside line. That suggests to me that the pipe froze outside.
I phoned Roto-Rooter, and they will call back in the morning. My question is what to do in the meantime. I assume, stop running water (except for the one sink with a pipe on an outside wall). I read on the internet to run hot water, but I think that could backfire if the ice plug is outside the house.
Does anyone have experience with something like this?
THANK YOU!
/PF
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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Re: URGENT - Help/Advise - Sewer Line Froze
Forget Roto Rooter, call Michigan Power Rodding?
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On Jan 20, 2025, at 5:09?PM, PF Anderson via groups.io <pfa@...> wrote:
? Hi, all,
I just popped into the basement to check on the laundry, and found water backing up from all three of the floor drains that go to the outside line. That suggests to me that the pipe froze outside.
I phoned Roto-Rooter, and they will call back in the morning. My question is what to do in the meantime. I assume, stop running water (except for the one sink with a pipe on an outside wall). I read on the internet to run hot water, but I think that could backfire if the ice plug is outside the house.
Does anyone have experience with something like this?
THANK YOU!
/PF
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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URGENT - Help/Advise - Sewer Line Froze
Hi, all,
I just popped into the basement to check on the laundry, and found water backing up from all three of the floor drains that go to the outside line. That suggests to me that the pipe froze outside.
I phoned Roto-Rooter, and they will call back in the morning. My question is what to do in the meantime. I assume, stop running water (except for the one sink with a pipe on an outside wall). I read on the internet to run hot water, but I think that could backfire if the ice plug is outside the house.
Does anyone have experience with something like this?
THANK YOU!
/PF
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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Re: Lunch Next Wednesday 1/22/2025 11:45am at Madras Masala on Packard
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Last week, we met at Bell's Diner, 5 people attended.? This week, go back to Madras Masala at their location on Packard near York, our last visit was on 23 October 2024.
Please RSVP if you know your plans.? If you want to see the menu in advance, it is at?.??
Madras Masala
2016 Packard
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Re: Lunch Next Wednesday 1/22/2025 11:45am at Madras Masala on Packard
Assuming no conflicting last minute meeting like last week, I¡¯ll be there?
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On Jan 20, 2025, at 2:00?PM, Roy Richter via groups.io <richter@...> wrote:
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Last week, we met at Bell's Diner, 5 people attended.? This week, go back to Madras Masala at their location on Packard near York, our last visit was on 23 October 2024.
Please RSVP if you know your plans.? If you want to see the menu in advance, it is at?
Madras Masala
2016 Packard
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Lunch Next Wednesday 1/22/2025 11:45am at Madras Masala on Packard
Last week, we met at Bell's Diner, 5 people attended.? This week, go back to Madras Masala at their location on Packard near York, our last visit was on 23 October 2024.
Please RSVP if you know your plans.? If you want to see the menu in advance, it is at?.??
Madras Masala
2016 Packard
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Re: Last month's and year's weather app ratings.
Good point, Dan. However, there are so many privacy nightmares out there these days. Sooooo many. For my work, I don't see any way around the privacy issues. I kind of assume that there are no real secrets.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 12:05?PM Dan Pritts < danno@...> wrote: Like you I prefer the Wunderground interface, it does a great job of visualizing the important data.?
That said, be careful if you use the WU or? TWC phone apps. They are a privacy nightmare. And the mobile web page isn¡¯t nearly as good.? Sent from phone, please excuse typos and/or brevity ? Interesting, but ... they don't even include Wunderground in the comparison. they used to.
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I guess that's because Wunderground was a subsidiary of TWC for a while and the data would have been the same? I like the interface better, myself.
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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Re: Last month's and year's weather app ratings.
Like you I prefer the Wunderground interface, it does a great job of visualizing the important data.?
That said, be careful if you use the WU or? TWC phone apps. They are a privacy nightmare. And the mobile web page isn¡¯t nearly as good.? Sent from phone, please excuse typos and/or brevity
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On Jan 20, 2025, at 11:36?AM, PF Anderson via groups.io <pfa@...> wrote:
? Interesting, but ... they don't even include Wunderground in the comparison. they used to.
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I guess that's because Wunderground was a subsidiary of TWC for a while and the data would have been the same? I like the interface better, myself.
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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Re: Last month's and year's weather app ratings.
I don¡¯t even see Apple Weather in this list. RIP Dark Sky. Though I do see Pirate Weather, which is a similar aggregation concept introduced after Apple took over Dark Sky.
I did not expect to see Microsoft chart so high, I check them sometimes but maybe I will use their weather features more often.
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Re: Last month's and year's weather app ratings.
Interesting, but ... they don't even include Wunderground in the comparison. they used to.
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I guess that's because Wunderground was a subsidiary of TWC for a while and the data would have been the same? I like the interface better, myself.
-- PF Anderson, pfa@...Emerging Technologies Informationist, University of Michigan? ORCID:?0000-0001-6348-2324 Pronouns: all pronouns acceptable My working hours may not be your working hours. Please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your work schedule. The University of Michigan is located on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe people.? In 1817, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Bodewadami Nations made the largest single land transfer to the University of Michigan.? This was offered ceremonially as a gift through the Treaty at the Foot of the Rapids so that their children could be educated.? Through these words of acknowledgement, their contemporary and ancestral ties to the land and their contributions to the University are renewed and reaffirmed.
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Last month's and year's weather app ratings.
Michael Fried https://michaelfried.com
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Re: Gray Panthers of Washtenaw??
I kind of doubt it merged.? More likely it died on the vine.
On 01/19/2025 5:16 PM EST Daniel Romanchik via groups.io <dan@...> wrote:
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Hi all¡ª
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I was just reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. Fortunately, for me, I¡¯m actually following most of the advice that the author gives in this book.
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One of the things that the book recommends is joining the Gray Panthers. So, I search for ¡°gray panthers Ann Arbor¡± and found?. It has a link to a website, but unfortunately, that website seems to be long gone. There¡¯s also a link to?, 1979-2011 in the Bentley Library, but as the name implies, it seems to have ceased operations in 2011.
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So, my question is whether anyone knows if the group is still around? Did they possibly merge with the?, which still seems to be quite active?
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Regards,
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Dan
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Re: Gray Panthers of Washtenaw??
Dan, I don;'t know but the "about" page of the Detroit chapter's?website includes: "We keep in touch with Michigan's other Gray Panthers' network in Ann Arbor. Our Gray Panthers' network, ?as its local chapters are called, has attracted grass roots activists into its membership from the City of Detroit and Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties."?
That suggests to me that the Ann Arbor chapter wasn't disbanded in 2011. I'd recommend emailing the Detroit chapter and asking who thermostat?recent contact for the Ann Arbor chapter is.
Dan Feidus
Hi all¡ª
I was just reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. Fortunately, for me, I¡¯m actually following most of the advice that the author gives in this book.
One of the things that the book recommends is joining the Gray Panthers. So, I search for ¡°gray panthers Ann Arbor¡± and found?. It has a link to a website, but unfortunately, that website seems to be long gone. There¡¯s also a link to?, 1979-2011 in the Bentley Library, but as the name implies, it seems to have ceased operations in 2011.
So, my question is whether anyone knows if the group is still around? Did they possibly merge with the?, which still seems to be quite active?
Regards,
Dan
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Gray Panthers of Washtenaw??
Hi all¡ª
I was just reading How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free. Fortunately, for me, I¡¯m actually following most of the advice that the author gives in this book.
One of the things that the book recommends is joining the Gray Panthers. So, I search for ¡°gray panthers Ann Arbor¡± and found?. It has a link to a website, but unfortunately, that website seems to be long gone. There¡¯s also a link to?, 1979-2011 in the Bentley Library, but as the name implies, it seems to have ceased operations in 2011.
So, my question is whether anyone knows if the group is still around? Did they possibly merge with the?, which still seems to be quite active?
Regards,
Dan
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Canton Public Library job opening--Engagement & Design Operations Assistant
As usual, let me know if you want the full posting.
Jennifer
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Re: DYI indoor Air filters
My son in LA does this.? He says the box fan apparatus is much faster than his normal (large) air purifier at cleaning the air when he gets home, there¡¯s quite a bit of airflow and filtering.? It¡¯s just loud. ?
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Re: DYI indoor Air filters
I have a variation on the four filter design that uses DC fans from computer applications, but if you have a box fan already, they are totally fine.
John I Hritz, Jr. ( jhritz@...) 2780 Gladstone Ave. Ann Arbor, MI? 48104 (734) 926-8684 Beware of any action immediately preceded by the words "Watch this!"
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Explanations and instructions.
Michael Fried https://michaelfried.com
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Re: Lunch Next Wednesday 11:45am 1/15/2025 at Bell's Diner
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Last week 9 of us went to Shalimar.? This week, we go to Bell's Diner on Stadium.? We were there last on 11 September 2024.
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Please RSVP if you know your plans so we know how many seats to save; otherwise, just show up.? Menu available to peruse in advance at?, or you can always order Bi-Bim-Bop!
Bells' Diner
2167 W Stadium Blvd
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