Thanks Hank. Great advice. Thing is, this pipe rupture thing happened at least a couple of weeks before it got cold here.

I received a notification from my water supply outfit that I had a major leak on my side of the meter. Rather than try and track down a leak in a 900 ', 30 year old 1" poly pipe, I took the cheaper way out and went for installing a 2" schedule 80 PVC pipe with a locating wire attached. No sense trying to fix something that is likely to do it again in another spot.

We had to wait for about 8 or 9 days for our turn to come up in the job schedule. Then it froze and the ground was to hard for the trenchers to come in.

Then came all of this snow craziness. So, it is what it is.

Believe it or not, I actually some pretty cool plans for the $14,548.67 that is now going to pay for a damn fool hole in the ground.

Damn good thing I halted consumption of distilled fruits and grains a few years back. I could see myself, buck naked, trying to take a bath by rolling around in the snow. Not a pretty picture to be sure.

One more thing ... Lighten up Vapid !

M.