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from "Phil L" contains these words:

We don't get very rapid hard frosts in this country...it would have to be
instantaneous!
Frosts occur gradually +2 /+1/ 0/ -1 /-2 over a period of a few hours...in
this time what little water remains in the pipe has gone...the outlet of the
tap *is* the lowest point remember.

My outside tap rises from an underground supply, as does a large
proportion of others.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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