My water slowed down, had weak pressure, and then would quit periodically. I could not see anything under house or in yard that was wrong. Called water co-op, they still had President's day-we-are-closed recording on Tuesday, but gave an afterhours trouble number to leave a voicemail. I left a message asking if there was a system problem, but no one ever called back. hmph. When weather warmed up I suddenly had a leak in the yard. The people who had the property ahead of me had a sprinkler system in the back yard that they tapped off the main line into the house. It came up out of the ground and had a valve on it, then went back underground to go the the sprinkler. It was broken and the sprinkler heads buried when I bought the place, so I cut the tap line off below ground and capped it and it was fine for the last 15 years until last week. Water in the stub apparently froze, cracking it but the ice kept it from leaking. I guess the ice pushed into the mainline, which lessened the flow to the house. When warmed up it started flooding the yard. I shut off water at the street, dug it out, cut it off deeper, and recapped it. So far so good, but when the weather stabilizes I am going to remove that section entirely so there is no tap or stub off the mainline at all.
ETA: I work an hourly job as a manger of a storage facility. We did not open the office last week, and I came in a few times for an hour to check on things (and to keep from turning into Jack Nicholson in The Shining), then left. To keep my paycheck up to snuff I put in some vacation hours on my timesheet. The owners just emailed me and said they were covering 16 hours of the "snovid
" (I love that!) so I will save on some of the vacation time. That was nice of them.