Houston will have an ice storm early Monday morning. We'll have about 12 hours of ice, and temperatures below freezing, then it will melt.
People are panic buying at the stores. Businesses will close 2 days in advance.
It's scary... almost like a mini mini ice-age.
In the past, cultures would sacrifice a virgin to a volcano to assuage the climate gods.
Is Greta Thunberg doing anything on Saturday?
If you can close off the sprinkler system from inside the house or under ground it would be best. If not, double wrap the part coming up out of the ground. I just had a cutoff valve installed inside my garage. Those things freeze easily. I’ve already had two freeze and break on me. (old house and new house). Old house was because I didn’t know to drain though. New house burst a metal piece.
I bought a small heater to heat the part inside my garage where my well’s pressure tank and piping are.
The part you are forgetting is water supply to toilets, washing machine, and ice maker. For my ice maker I will simply dump the ice and just have it make ice all night. I’ll flush toilets during the night. Like now, I tend to be up in the middle of the night a lot. (dinural sleeping). Not sure what I’m going to do with the washing machine. Dishwasher is fed from the kitchen faucet, so with kitchen faucet running it’s not a problem.
I’m also considering opening my attic doors to heat the attic. I have two furnaces for my two story and heat rises so I might be able to do it.
I did read that the pipe water temperature has to get down to just below 20 before it starts to freeze. The water has to super cool before it actually freezes.