frozen rubber hose? I'm not from the east so I'm poking my nose into something I know very little about but can't you just put a small electric heater aimed at it and let it just....melt? If it were me, (which it wouldn't be because their's no way in hell that I would live back in that kind of weather) I would set up a small heater pointing at it and go away polish a brass bell or something. I mean, it's got to melt doesn't it? It's not like you have anything else to do. Don't you guys just hunker down in your man caves for the winter, all snowed in and stuff???