In 1968, on a warm summer day, my mother looked out her kitchen window facing Minnesota Highway 75 and was horrified to see my little brother, only 3 years old, hanging onto the back of one of my dad’s electrical service trucks, which was just pulling out onto the highway heading south.
I have far too many memories of freeze damage in "winterized" homes where the winterizing procedure consisted of shutting off the main valve, opening a basement drain in the potable water system, opening all faucets, flushing every toilet, adding automotive antifreeze to traps and toilet tanks/bowls, and turning off the heat.