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Default Frozen water pipes

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:13:43 -0500, Clare Snyder
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and check for anything that
would allow cold air in. Block any holes


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Once had a garage, upstate NY. Wife called me at work. The exposed
copper pipe, frozen, swelled up, burst and split a 5/8" gash in the
pipe. It was my first year in the house. I think the wind chill was
~-50° F. Snow blowing sideways and wind howling. I moved South after
a year.