Winter Preparation Plan

[Andrew Cameron]

I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and it's been a tough winter already.  I thought I was ready for the winter.  I had all of our snow equipment serviced, our bags of salt were all stacked nicely, and snow shovelers were lined up.  I thought I was all ready.  

Well it turns out that I wasn't.  Two things happened, I had a tenant leave a window open and one of her hot water baseboard pipes burst.  Second, we had a 24 hour power outage in one of our older unoccupied houses and I thought all the pipes were going to freeze.

I realized I need to make a plan for dealing with burst pipes, and for dealing with longer power outages, both for managing tenants and managing buildings.  Has anyone else created a document or plan like this before?  Any thoughts, comments, or starting points?