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If water is moving where it should not be and you cannot stop it at a fixture valve, shut the house down at the main and call rather than waiting to see whether it slows.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

The first minutes of an emergency call are about containment, and a plumber on the phone will often start there before anyone arrives. Get the main closed. Kill power to the water heater at the breaker if the tank is involved. North Carolina gets a particular version of this in storm season, when a tropical system stalls over the coastal plain and towns like Lumberton and Windsor take a foot of rain in a day. Sewer mains surcharge, groundwater rises above the level of the lowest drain, and houses that never had a problem back up through a shower. Once on site, the plumber isolates the failure so the rest of the house can be put back in service, which beats leaving a family with no water at all when the repair can't happen yet. Temporary work is honest work in that moment. A capped branch, a bypass, a check on the cleanout, and then the real repair gets scheduled once the ground drains and the crawlspace is not standing in water.

Frequently asked questions

Anything actively wetting the structure, anything sewage related inside the house, and a total loss of water. A dripping faucet or a running toilet is annoying and expensive over time, but it can wait for a scheduled visit without the house getting worse while it waits.
If water has reached outlets, appliances or a panel, cut power to that area at the breaker before walking through it, and if the panel itself is wet stay out and call the power company. For a water heater specifically, turning off its breaker or gas control is the right move before anything else gets touched.
It can. Losing electricity means losing the pump, so a well home has no water at all when the lines go down, while a home on town water usually keeps pressure. Flooding around a wellhead also raises a contamination question that outlasts the storm, and the health department in your area can advise on testing.
Clear a path to the water heater, the main shutoff and any crawlspace door, and pen up the dogs. Knowing whether the house is on a septic tank or a sewer, and roughly when it was built, saves real time on the diagnosis.

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