Plumbing in Alaska freezes in crawls, in outside walls, and in houses closed without a plan. Southcentral cold is long, and the supply does not care that the living room feels fine. Shut the main if a line has split, and know that valve before you need it. If the meter moves with every fixture off, the leak is still live. A heated house and a dark house are different calls.
Sort the water before a wall is opened. Ice-dam water from the eave, melt in a crawl, and a supply that split are three paths. A cable clears a clog and does not fix a belly, a vent full of frost, or a line that froze and opened. Frost heave can rack a shallow run. The inlet wind reaches the exposed hose bib first. Shut it from inside before the season locks it.
Water heaters run for months and then weep at the base while everyone watches the heat. Name the fuel, the vent, the pan, and the shutoff. If you smell trouble at a flue, stop using it. A tank that walked after shaking is not a freeze story. Say if the house took a shake. Do not send discharge into a line that was never meant to take it.
The short building season is the time for a wall line, a roof vent, or a bib you can only reach while the daylight lasts. A flood tonight does not wait for that window. Say which call this is. If the crawl is tight, wet, or choked with insulation, say that too. A sagging ceiling will not improve because the dark months are inconvenient.
Say leak, freeze, drain, or water heater, and the town. Say if you can shut the water off and if the heat is on. Mention the crawl if that is where the line lives. Standing water in a cold house gets worse overnight. Call the number on this page.