Spent most of my 67 years in areas where winter temperatures rarely even got down to freezing, much less below. I now live in Idaho, in the supposed 'banana belt', but last winter had 3 feet of snow and this winter had at least a week where the high was in the low 30's. Your story about the septic line freezing really has me thinking now. We have to have ours replaced in the spring, and the local inspector said ours should be only 6 inches below the surface due to the rock and clay that lies deeper. Now I'm worried that 6 inches might not be enough!
Spent most of my 67 years in areas where winter temperatures rarely even got down to freezing, much less below. I now live in Idaho, in the supposed 'banana belt', but last winter had 3 feet of snow and this winter had at least a week where the high was in the low 30's. Your story about the septic line freezing really has me thinking now. We have to have ours replaced in the spring, and the local inspector said ours should be only 6 inches below the surface due to the rock and clay that lies deeper. Now I'm worried that 6 inches might not be enough!