Did you ever try to turn on a faucet in your home after bitter cold freezing weather?

No water!? No fun, is it?

Let's talk about some ways you can avoid this problem...

Frozen Pipes....no one likes to even think about what we call in the trade "a freeze-up" but it does happen. While the expression, 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' may sound trivial, truer words were never said.

It appears that Mother Nature has multiple personality disorder as the seasons have been peculiar, and it's been warmer than usual in the late fall, and cooler in the early spring.

December of 2015 has been thus far the warmest December in many decades. Some say it's got to do with El Nino, while others tout Global Warming and Climate Change. Others dispute it all together, But it's happened before, and will likely happen again when weather is extraordinary and unusual for a particular time of year.

Here are some things to keep in mind as we approach freezing weather...