Kel,
Can you install a cistern against the house and run the gutters into it? If the cistern was in an enclosed, insulated shed attached to the house it wouldn't take much to heat it enough to keep the water from freezing.


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861