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I would obviously turn off the main at the street and open all the facets. That should be enough to weather the freeze. If it breaks on the city side that's the

• eesmith 6y ago
  Points that you omitted from your initial comment. Both jdanders and I were pointing out that your comment - as written - wouldn't actually save any money. "quite a few of these folks lived in apartments" What are you talking about? While some of Griddy customers are in apartments, the news articles I read on the topic (this FT article is paywalled so I wasn't able to read it) only report problems from house owners, not apartment owners. Unless several neighboring apartments switch to Griddy, such that all cut their breakers, I would expect the shared walls would provide some heat transfer - an advantage that house owners wouldn't have (some townhouses might). Or, for that matter, knock on the door of an apartment neighbor on a fixed rate plan and ask to plug in a space heater for the duration. That's harder for a house owner to pull off.
• bradknowles 6y ago
  That’s assuming you could find the main water valve. That’s assuming you had the right tools to close the main water valve. That’s assuming that the main water valve isn’t already frozen solid. Again, you’ve made a lot of assumptions here that were not necessarily valid during this past week.