[Magdalen] Ice and Snow along GA & SC

[Roger Stokes]

On 09/01/2018 01:41, Ginga Wilder wrote:
> Our young neighbor came over today to ask if John knew where her water
> meter is.  We all looked...it's probably  under some huge azaleas that her
> great grandma planted when she lived in the house.  Her water pipes are
> probably frozen...only a trickle of water in parts of the house.  She was
> calling public works.

30+ years ago when I was living in my first Vicarage down a long unmade 
road (which was another story when we got snow several times one winter) 
we had a burst upstream of the indoor stop-tap. This meant having to 
turn the water off by the main - but where was the tap? The water people 
found an old plan (which are not always accurate) to indivate the route 
of the main and found the tap under some bricks that had been laid down 
to pave the private road in front of another row of houses. Fortunately 
they had been able before then to cut through a section of lead pipe and 
bend it over to reduce the flow of water.

Roger