Got damn what a day. Pipes overhead garages are all shitting the bed throughout the area. In-laws yesterday, friend's last night, and my Dad's today. Went over to help him tear down the ceiling to find it was a CPVC run to an outside spigot on the Northwest corner of his house. Zero insulation up there. Drove all over creation dealing with Mad Max crowds trying to find a simple 3/4" plug and some solvent cement. Second trip to Lowes I was able to find one 3/4" solvent to thread adapter which I then rigged up to some existing PVC parts to fashion a plug. Some random guy found two packs of primer/cement and gave me one. Seems to be holding so we'll see. I told him to install a shut-off valve to that section and drain it anytime temps get below freezing. Before I left the house I explained to my wife what to do in case the water came back on and shit went sideways. In hindsight I should have just shut everything off before I left. I come home and see water pouring out into the street and my wife scooping out the valve box with a pitcher. WHAT THE FUCK! Oh it's the neighbor's backflow exploding everywhere and she doesn't even know what a main shut-off is let alone how to shut if off. So I freeze my balls off soaked in water getting that shut off only to actually go look at the backflow and see that she just threw a towel over it and didn't actually winterize anything. Fuck me. Oh well she still has water until the rest of it blows up I guess. We're refilling bathtubs, running the dishwasher and I'm shutting the valve back at the street for the next few nights.