The very hardest thing about this freeze, power outages, ice, snow, frozen water tanks, etc. that we've been experiencing here in TX the last 5 days, with large animals has been getting water to them. We are so far South, that I'm not sure getting trough water heaters that I'm only going to be using once every 10 years, or less, is the right thing to do. A friend suggested running a hose from the washing machine hot water line, or even from the water heater, to the trough and letting it continually drip into the trough to prevent it from freezing. Hmmmm. That may work for the smaller troughs but the 100 gallon tank would never get enough heat, I don't think, to battle the ice. Any suggestions from you guys who live where you deal with these kinds of winters every year? I totally respect your ability to deal with real winter. It has not snowed here since 2012, and we have not had a prolonged hard freeze like this here since 1983, when the whole bay froze over in the Corpus Christi area!
