I left a faucet on full blast in an in-laws destined for foreclosure house after the electricity was shut off; the main water shutoff to the house didn’t work properly. It didn’t make a damn bit of difference, flooding everywhere. 

I always find it a bit odd to wish a dead person a happy birthday. 

Back in the earlier days of Wikipedia it was quite easy for anyone to edit articles. It was still very new when I was in college, and I recall one evening a friend and I decided it would be fun to edit various articles after having quite a bit to drink. The one I remember most was editing the page of Grover Cleveland…

That definitely sucks, but I don’t think a dripping faucet would have prevented your issue. 

That’s a risk we all face, but as the article kind of points out, letting your faucets drip isn’t going to prevent pipes from freezing in that situation. 

My house is split level, the lowest level is half below grade. The pipes come in through through the wall downstairs. 

Fleas was not my main concern. When we still had a cat every time she got into our bed I thought about how her feet had just been in the litter box. Similarly, dogs walk around outside, lay, roll, etc outside. Unless you actually wash your dog’s feet before letting it in bed, you may as well rub a pair of shoes around…

I’m an industry person. For most in the industry the word truck would refer to anything from the Trax up to the Silverado HD. 

My Michigan house is 65 years old and has very little insulation in the walls. My living room couch is a cold place to have a cup of coffee on a winter morning. That was doubly true when we had leather. That said, aside from a short run to the kitchen sink, none of my pipes run through exterior walls. That seems to be…

My Michigan house is relatively old and has no insulation in the exterior walls. There is some in the attic that was added at some point  

I wasn’t talking about pickups. 

I was going to point out that they aren’t all that ridiculous if you consider the increase in size of the average American over the past half century or so. Your point is also something I thought of. A combination of the two makes even more sense.

No. My house is a tri level, the kitchen is on a slab at ground level. The water supply runs through the ceiling in the middle of the lower level, which ends up being an interior wall on the middle level. There is just a short run along an exterior wall as described to get to the kitchen sink. 

I guess it is true that I have a short run to the kitchen sink, but the pipe is on the inside of the cabinets. 

My house is 65 years old and none of my pipes, save a short run to the hose, run along exterior walls. 

Is that true though? A few years back I made a trip to LA in January. I was amused by billboards I saw that encouraged people to turn their thermostats down to 72 to save energy. It was warm enough in LA at the time that I wouldn’t have even thought to turn my furnace on back at home. If I recall correctly the daytime…

I saw what happens in an extended power outage to a relative’s house even with the faucets on. It isn’t pretty.

“Not everywhere is as smart as Michigan”

I did walk away with a lot of swag, most of which I don’t really know what to do with anymore. I still have one of these https://jalopnik.com/assholes-are-selling-their-acura-nsx-press-kits-on-ebay-1679925205 and wish I had sold it back when it was the thing to do. Now it just lives in a drawer in my house. 

On the flipside I had to sit through many more underwhelming reveals, think Chrysler 200 or Lincoln MKT.