Last weekend we had a nasty storm pass and it left in its wake lots of snow and the pipes to both houses frozen. Solid. They are starting to thaw, but as they thaw, many are broken. We lost the main pump, the main pipes, and today, two more pipes. And the little house pipes are still frozen. We kept the water turned on before the storm, but it dropped to 4 degrees and our houses just weren't winterized for the extreme weather.
I have spent this last week sleeping on DD2s couch. I have really enjoyed the time with her, but I am really ready to be back to 'normal'.
So far, the cost of the pump and broken pipes is about $500. Hopefully tomorrow, we will know the final cost after the water is working again. 
(please let the water be working again..)
I hope to finish Christmas prep this weekend. I am woefully behind- but have a plan, so I should finish up this weekend.
Its been a very busy couple of weeks.
Frozen pipes and couch surfing
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Good luck with your repairs.
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We did lose one pipe at the city house and it was protected.
Our area plumbers and heating companies have been backlogged from all the work that storm caused. Thankfully, I have two SILs that are able to fix everything for me- which is why the price is so reasonable.
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December 15th, 2013 at 03:25 am 1387077904
A pipe in the girl's bathroom in the Media Center froze and burst on Tuesday. Monday afternoon I'd left the faucet dripping, but it was still well below freezing when classes started and of course the girls turned the faucet off after using it ... One of my fifth grade girls came out of the bathroom just as I was starting to give instructions to my seventh grade boys ... Miss N?? Yes? Ummm.... there's water spilling out of the ceiling. (Me) What?! .. I go over to the bathroom and look - sure enough, there is water *pouring* out of the paper towel dispenser. It was actually kind of *almost* funny - except that it meant that the bathrooms were out of commission for most of Tuesday and Wednesday.
December 15th, 2013 at 02:47 pm 1387118823
I think the only thing that saved our butt was the sun. Texas and Oregon and so on had quite some weather! We had the same cold snap BUT we also had cloudless skies and sun. It was still a solid 30 degrees colder than I have ever seen on a sunny day - which I couldn't quite wrap my brain around. (Apparently a weather pattern like this happens once every 50 years?). We have never had to insulate our pipes because though it can get fairly cold at night it will always warm up significantly during the day. Which just means they never actually get cold enough, long enough, to freeze. It also takes longer to freeze at the lower altitude (something like that).
It was clear to me that the slightest storm would have created *quite* the mess here. As is, I know there were some broken pipes in the neighborhood. & I feel great relief now that it has warmed up a bit. (We have already had more than our fair share of plumbing problems this year!)
Crossing my fingers that you get it all fixed, quickly and painlessly as possible.