If the outside pipes away from the house freeze leaving the faucets running is useless.
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“If the outside pipes away from the house freeze leaving the faucets running is useless.”
No it is not useless and there is always a shut off someplace. They also make faucets that won’t freeze that fit right on the end of the pipes.
Are you really going to try and push that those of us who live with this cold weather a few months of every year have not figured it out?
I think you need to spend a winter in North Dakota to figure out everything you don’t know.
“If the outside pipes away from the house freeze leaving the faucets running is useless.”
It has to be very cold for running water to freeze. We use this trick often when it is in the teens and it works just fine.