00:00Ice on the roads, bushland frosted white, and lakes frozen solid.
00:09All signs of a very chilly night, with the air at Liweeny dropping to minus 12.9, a contender
00:16for the coldest temperature in Australia this year.
00:20The minus 12.9 is the third coldest event that we've seen recorded in Tasmania.
00:27It is also a July record for the Liweeny observation site.
00:32The extreme temperatures caused plumbing problems at the Great Lake Hotel, forcing it to close
00:38for the day.
00:40We came to work this morning and the ground staff had found that several of our water
00:44pipes had burst and of course we were shut, so we've had a series of water flows into
00:51some accommodation rooms.
00:53For owner James Johns, the cold snap is business as usual.
00:56For seven months of the year you're basically in either a state of it being cold or wet
01:02or snowy and it's just life and it's the reason why people come up to the Central Highlands,
01:08it's because it is, it's wild and it's woolly and it's a bit different.
01:15Down the road at Brandon near Liweeny, resident Linda Holstein has been loving the icy conditions.
01:22Getting up this morning, besides it being so cold, the view was spectacular but inside
01:28the lounge room I had hot air coming out of my mouth when I was talking.
01:32I guarantee it must have been about seven degrees in there.
01:35Living in this area isn't without its challenges during the cold months.
01:39I think one of the biggest things I had to learn at this time of the year, and I had
01:44to learn it the hard way, is you have to, every night you have to drain, turn your water
01:50off and drain all the pipes.
01:53I don't reckon today we'll get water at all.
01:55In the meantime she will stay cosy inside with the cold conditions hanging around for
02:00the week.
02:01I'm at the edge of Great Lake and as you can see behind me there's still thick ice on the
02:06water's edge showing no sign of melting any time soon and the Bureau of Meteorology says
02:11it could be just as cold tomorrow.
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