Well, guys, I gotta stop complaining about the snow. If it wasn't for the snow, we would have had a major disaster (not as if it wasn't major enough). My folk are snowbirds, but when they are up north, live close to my house. They still pay for snow pplow service and we got a call that the guy plowing their driveway saw water pouring out of the garage. Sute enough, they had a power outage and the heat never came back on and the pipes froze. It looked like it happened within the past 24 hours, so like I said, if it weren't for the snow, who knows when we would have found out?
And yes, my sister and I do check the house about once a week, but that may have been too late.