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About 124 nights a year below freezing, when uninsulated crawlspace lines give out

The oldest blocks in town run plumbing decades older than the newer builds toward Milesburg

First frost typically lands around October 24

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It fails differently. Galvanised has usually narrowed with scale by the time it is this old, so it freezes solid quicker and splits along the seam or at a threaded joint. Copper tends to split along a straight run and can sometimes be patched more cleanly.

Water trapped past the valve froze first. A hose left connected holds that water in the last stretch of pipe, and with about 124 freezing nights a year that stretch is the part that splits. The break often sits inside the wall, so it only shows up when the tap is opened in spring.

A partial ice plug in the service line or in a main branch will do it, and so will a failing pressure regulator that the cold has finally caught up with. Full loss at one fixture points at a frozen branch instead.

In much of the area it does, and scale narrows old galvanised supply lines from the inside. A narrowed line holds less water but freezes faster, which is part of why old piping and cold nights are a bad match.