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Shut the water off at the main and cut power to anything sitting in water at the breaker, then call, because the damage from here on is measured in minutes.

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When this becomes an emergency

What a pro does

An emergency call is triage. Stop the water, protect the house, restore what can be restored, and schedule the rest honestly. That order holds whatever the failure is. South Carolina adds its own version in tropical season, when a slow moving storm parks over the Lowcountry and towns like Andrews, Nichols and Ridgeville take rain measured in feet rather than inches. Groundwater rises to the level of the lowest drain, sewer collection systems fill with more than they were built to carry, and houses that have never had a backup get one through a first floor shower. A plumber arriving in that situation isolates the affected line so the family still has a working bathroom somewhere, checks the water heater if the garage or crawl has taken water, and looks at whether a backwater valve makes sense once the weather passes. If the home is on a well and the power is out, there's no pressure at all until it returns, and that's a different conversation about safe water in the meantime.

Frequently asked questions

Close the main. It is usually at the meter near the street or on the wall where the line enters the house, and knowing which before an emergency is worth five minutes on a quiet afternoon. Move what you can out of the water, and stay away from any wet electrical panel or outlet.
Because the whole system is loaded at once. Rain gets into sewer collection lines through cracks and manholes, the mains run full, and a house connected downhill has nowhere to send waste. The lowest drain in the building becomes the relief point, which is usually a ground floor shower or a tub.
Both, sometimes. Water sitting under the house is a drainage problem, but it is also sitting on your supply lines, your drain lines and often the water heater, and those need checking before the space gets closed up again. A plumber can tell you what in the system took damage.
It can be. On town water a sudden total loss usually points at a broken service line or a utility problem, and either is worth an immediate call. On a well it points at the pump, the pressure tank or the electrical supply to them, and running a pump dry does further harm, so it should be switched off until someone can look.

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