Be aware that if your water service is interrupted, you need to shut off the icemaker in your refrigerator.

I have a two-year-old Samsung french door refrigerator which I love. But the other day the icemaker quit working. It would make the “ice is coming” noise, but no ice came out. I tried everything and was ready to have it “serviced” but I remembered a similar situation when we were snowbirds. We would always shut off the water but not the ice maker. The ice making process continued without water. The tiny trickle left in the lines was enough to create ice blocking the lines which would stop everything.

Thursday the water in Kings Point went down for quite a while. The reason my icemaker wasn’t working was because it had “frozen up.” Thursday’s community-wide shutdown had created the same situation we’d had as snowbirds.

I kept trying and eventually the ice blocking the lines was cleared and the unit started working again.

My suggestion is: if the water is shut off, turn off the ice maker in your refrigerator. Otherwise you’re liable to have a situation where ice won’t come out.