Reminder: Avoid frozen and burst water pipes and huge plumbing bills.

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3. And if there's any chance water could stop running, drinking water's

obvious, but also store tap water for the toilet tank. Also plastic bags to place under toilet seats to catch waste in case the worst comes about. The actual worst case is family continuing to use before realizing the water isn't coming back on, possibly for days.

Both our places are rural and on wells, so we always have bottles of water ready for what happens all too often.

As said, don't learn the hard way. Learning by personal experience is the worst!