Good thing you caught it early. I heard the library I used to frequent in Post Falls, Idaho had to close due to burst pipes. Seems they caught it before being closed for Monday and MLK day at least. We've been keeping a tap trickling to forestall frozen pipes here at home, and so far all is well.
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Well, you guys get it so much colder than we do around here. Single digits in this part of the world is something that happens every 40 or 50 years not every winter.
Much of the problem we're having with this is the "genius engineering" involved in building the house originally. Someone had the great idea that running a T-junction for a sprinkler system off the main pipe from the street close to the house was a great idea. And then, furthermore, adding an outdoor hose bib off that junction... meaning that there are two weak points too close to open air. In this case the weak point that exploded (in part because our water pressure is so damn high) was the outdoor faucet.