Broken Water Pipes

This has been a busy weekend. The combination of last weeks sub-zero temperatures and all the foreclosed or dormant homes and condo's a lot of water pipes and sprinkler heads were frozen solid. Now that we have had two days of balmy weather (20 degrees F) many of these pipes are now thawing and water is running....all over.

This morning we had a call literally across the street from the station. Water alarms were going off for about a dozen or so unit's. It took a minute to identify which unit had the problem. Upon forcing entry through the front door, the entire main level was soaked with water pouring through the ceiling in a few spots. Turns out a bathroom pipe and a sprinkler pipe both were broken.

I can only imagine the amount of time and money it will take to clean up a problem like that.