Seasonal
The Gulf Coast runs on two plumbing seasons with a long stretch in between. Winter is short and mild until it isn't — the January 2025 freeze dropped Mobile into single digits, broke a main in Fairhope and put both counties under boil-water notices, and the houses that came out worst were the empty ones. Hurricane season runs through the end of November, and the plumbing questions after a storm are about what's in the water, not only what's in the yard. Between the two sits the snowbird calendar, where shutting a house down for the summer and opening it back up in the fall are both real procedures with real ways to get them wrong. These guides run on that calendar instead of a generic one.
It Was 20°F on Christmas Eve Morning in 2022. Plan the Holiday Around That.
The December 2022 freeze put a confirmed burst-pipe wave across the Mobile Bay area during Christmas week. What it did, and how to leave a Baldwin County house for ten days.
Pipes Here Don't Burst at 32°F. They Burst Nearer 20°F — Because of the Slab.
Southern slab houses run supply pipe through an unconditioned attic. Research puts the freezing point of that pipe near 20°F outside air — not 32. What that means in Baldwin County.
Before You Evacuate: The Plumbing Shutdown Order for a Baldwin County House
A storm-order checklist for shutting a Baldwin County house down — the main valve test, the grinder pump breaker, and the two systems we can't fix for you.
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