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Yeah, if I think the house is going to deep-freeze, I usually just shut off the service valve, drain the water out of the pipes (open a faucet upstairs and one downstairs), and wrap a blanket around the valve to try to keep it from freezing. If it gets to that point, I'm usually looking to abandon ship if possible to somewhere more hospitable.
During one outage at my old house (where power outages were very common), I was bored and piled up a bunch of snow on the patio and made a snow fridge with shelves and everything. lol. Worked great.
I do keep jugs of water on hand in the basement for emergencies, but yeah, good call to move them somewhere with less heat loss in events like this.
Thankfully, everything came back up after just about an hour, so warm and toasty now.
Is it supposed to genuinely get below freezing in your place for an extended period of time?
If not, it's always good to fill up a bath tub full of water in emergencies like being able to flush toilets, take a whore bath, or whatever. There's also a product called a Water Bob which is food-gradr plastic bag that you put in your tub and fill up from the faucet so you have potable water.
I've seen cases of drained pipes still bursting because the little water left in them is enough. I have no idea how but it happened. Not sure what to advise. Guess the drip thing if it's bad enough.
True. That's just what the water company here recommends if your dwelling is going to be unoccupied in the winter. That, and draining the hot water tank (though in this case, I'd just be relying on the gas not going out).