I woke up this morning with no water in the house. Nothing, from any tap. My dad and my landlord both tell me that that means the line leading into the house is frozen. I called the water company. They said they’d dispatch an emergency team. That was two hours ago.
I can’t flush the toilet. I can’t take a shower. I can’t cook and I can’t wash my hands. And I have to stay here until the water company feels like showing up.
It sucks. Keep me company?
Wow, where does this actually happen? Glad I live in Southern California.
Indiana. It didn’t happen last winter. It’s the first time I’ve ever experienced it, actually.
Really upset because it’s only going to get colder. Today is our warmest day till next Wednesday. I’m afraid there will be nothing they can do, and I’ll have to go to a hotel.
I’m guessing midwest (http://www.weather.com/)
it’s pretty chilly 'round here.
D’oh, that was a windchill map, try this one.
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/forecastsummary/uscurrenttemperatures_large.html?from=wxcenter_maps
I’m glad I’ll be heading South in about 18 hours.
No, I was wrong. This is actually the warmest day till next Thursday, when the temperature will soar to 20.
Monday’s high will be 1.
Once they get it going again, when it’s that cold out let a faucet trickle constantly so that there’s always an active demand for water. I suspect, however, that they may put heat tape or something similar on the line to help prevent that from happening again.
Except the part that’s frozen is underground. Do they still put heat tape on it?
Three hours since I called, and no one has come.
I thought that’s the way it’s handled, but I could well be wrong. Depending on how old that line is, it may not be made of the more modern stuff that’s better at standing up to the cold.
Oh thank goodness. They just fixed it. They just took up a plate in my front yard and did something and suddenly it came back. What a relief.
No heat tape etc… told me to keep a tap open at all times, until it warms up some.
When things thaw out, you’ll want to keep an eye on the affected area. There’s a very good chance that you’ll have a leak, water expands as it freezes, much more than the piping.
Funny, when I flushed the toilet this morning I also realized that the pipes were frozen…again, for the 3rd time this winter.
The first two times it happened the heater that keeps the pump from freezing up had stopped working. Got the heater fixed and the water was back on in a few short minutes. This morning however the heater was working fine but wasn’t able to keep up with the -18 degree weather. So we did a quick insulation installation in the well house and it’s been fine since.
Love the country life!
Barrels
Keeping a few gallons of bottled water on hand doesn’t seem like a bad idea now.
I keep a five gallon bucket on the floor of the linen closet just to flush with if something like this happens.
Hey, I’m in LA County and it happened to me a few weeks ago (got around 3 degrees up here).
I’m glad you got your water back, Sattua. Having no water blows some serious choad.
I’m going to bed now and feeling very, very suspicious. I’ve had a sink in the basement running all day, and will leave it running for about the next week. I also opened up all the taps upstairs and let them run cold water for several minutes, to try to melt whatever ice may have accumulated so far this evening.
Going to bed with a faint heart. Wish me luck.
Good luck! May all your water run freely tomorrow. 
My SIL lives in a cabin in the woods above a ski resort, and her water freezes up several times each winter even though she keeps taps running. Apparently when the high temp is -30F (-34C), it has to be running much harder than a trickle. Plus she has to shovel snow off her roof at least once every winter. And has to plow her own way out to the main road, about a mile.
I guess I’m just not that hardy. All of you in really cold areas, stay warm!
The water is still on this morning, thank Gawd! But gee… it sure is cold coming out of the tap.
Shoveling snow off the roof I know about. That’s why you want a really, really steep roof, so the snow just falls off.
My guess is, they hit it sideways. Assuming Sister Ray works for your water department.