it’s me!!
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Get a Moen leak detector. Monitors water usage, reports to you unusual activity after it “learns”your usage, and you get an insurance discount! Meet Flo Smart Water Shut Off | Smart Water Monitor | Moen
No affiliation, but it has saved me often.
Often?? You have home water supply leak issues ‘often’?
Left a hose running to fill a fountain. Had a water softener leak also. Had water damage prior house w hose breaking. That last event inspired me to buy. Maybe “often” too harsh—“more than once.” It will shut off your water if unusual activity sensed after sending text and email warnings.
I had a washing machine line break once while we were out and flooded our whole house that had brand new hardwood floors. when I walked into the house after work, there were several inches of water sloshing around. And the water still blowing out of that broken line. ''Twas a mess.
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Reading and, occasionally, laughing at posts in this thread jinxed me. Just broke the glass of my French press. That last one lasted over a decade!
Haha. I’ve done that, too. Twice now.
I press too hard!
Our water district recently upgraded everyone to smart meters. So it’s pretty easy to monitor your water usage, and even set up an alert if you go over a specified threshold for the day. I don’t know if there is a way to shut off the water remotely, need to find out. Can easily get a chart of your daily or monthly usage, like this
But folks in Florida might not want this level of government intrusion 
Every time this thread is bumped to the top of Wine Talk, I think you’ve dropped another bottle, Robert. I’ve come to think of you as a real klutz.
I am!
I hope you have the reinforced hoses now.
That stinks. Probably broken perfectly. I make French Press every morning!
He’s a lovable, little, klutzball!!
He WAS, until I had him do this thread - no breaks (of wine-related items) since!
He owes me.
Thread drift: Our home-owners’ insurance (SoCal) required that we install a leak detector to bind the policy. At the beginning it was a pain as it “learned” our usage, but it did spot a running toilet a month ago.
About a year ago, I had my pressure relief valve spring a leak(an 1/8 inch stream of water shooting 15 ft across my basement) and my gate valve below malfunctioned. Called a local plumbing company. I had to call 911 to report an emergency to get my city to come out and shut my water off. (I had ziptied a plastic bag around the pipe and valve which directed the water into a tilted bucket which then flowed into the floor drain.) The city responded in 20 minutes at 1030 at night and for no charge (as it was reported as an emergency). It did end up being $1200 for the repair, but oh well. The buried shut off valve where I’m connected to the city water supply was about 10 feet onto my property.
Edit.All my primary shut offs are now marine valves.
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I guess I’m glad my plumber recently urged me to replace the ever-so-slightly leaking pressure valve on my hot water tank. He said that, if it went, the well pump would just keep pumping water onto my basement floor if I wasn’t there to close the main shut-off valve. And I have no floor drains!
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Not me, but my older sister dropped one that I gave her: a 1966 Louis Martini Special Selection Cabernet Sauvignon. This was around 1976, so no easy options to find another. I had enjoyed an excellent bottle previously and thought she might appreciate it, but it was not to be.
Is that The Tempest? If so, that hurts, although less than the Absurd