Family returns from vacation to find home flooded, frozen

I guess I'm just one of the foolish. In 50+ years of traveling I have never shut off the water, or had cameras to watch my stuff, or had wifi thermostats to notify me of issues, etc., and believe it or not have never had a single issue. The house was always still standing when I returned home. Amazing. Of course most of the times away from home were only for 3 or 4 weeks at a time.

And believe or not, I never, ever gave it a second thought or worried about it for a minute. Whatever floats yer boat I guess.