Snowstorm Prep: Fill Your Bathtub for a Critical Water Lifeline
TL;DR
As winter storms approach, experts urge homeowners to fill their bathtubs with water to ensure a ready supply if pipes freeze and cut off the water; bathwater isn’t ideal for drinking, but can be boiled or purified for safety, and is useful for bathing, cleaning and flushing toilets during outages, alongside tips on identifying and thawing frozen pipes and general winter preparedness.
- Homeowners urged to fill their bathtub with water before a snowstorm — here's why Tom's Guide
- How to prevent pipes from bursting during a freeze and avoid costly damage, according to Texas plumbers CBS News
- Beating the freeze: avoiding frozen pipes wsbt.com
- How Texas is getting ready for this weekend’s winter storm texastribune.org
- How to keep pipes from freezing in harsh winter weather, what to do if they burst WRAL
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