Iowa is once again facing a cold snap, with low temperatures that can create serious challenges for homeowners and renters alike. With daytime highs well below freezing and nighttime lows dipping to single digits, the risk of frozen pipes and the costly damage they can cause increases dramatically. When water freezes, it expands by about nine percent. That might not sound like much, but it creates an immense amount of pressure. This pressure inside a frozen pipe can skyrocket from a normal 40 psi to as much as 40,000 psi. No pipe is designed to handle that kind of stress,
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