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Osceola Water Works wants to remind customers how to protect their homes from costly damage caused by burst water pipes. Once again, Iowa is facing an Extreme Cold Warning, with dangerously low temperatures that can create serious challenges for homeowners and renters alike. With daytime highs in single digits, windchills reaching -35°, and nighttime lows dipping below zero, 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