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Plumber’s Nightmare
"I've got no way of knowing for sure but I'd estimate the number of broken pipes in the county somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand," said Everett Estes, operator of a plumbing business. He reported that his crews worked almost day and night for four and a half days last week as temperatures plunged to minus five. There was a brief breathing spell on Saturday as thermometers climbed to between 36 and 40 degrees, c heat wave, for the New Year but Estes was back working around the clock as another record low of minus 15 was set in the county this past Sunday, January 17. "1 started yesterday morning at 9 a.m. and we’ve been going pretty steady ever since," Estes said Monday evening. "There are still busted pipes and some still frozen that we haven’t gotten to yet." The danger of chimney fires increases as the temperature decreases, condensing creosote on chimney walls at a faster than normal
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