Damaging Deep Freeze

Like most of America, Colorado endured a record-breaking deep freeze just before Christmas 2022.

At the time when this blog post was written, late December 2022, the Midwest (and most of the country) were at the back end of a legendary deep freeze. Here in Colorado, we had a few consecutive days in which the temperature did not reach above 0℉. We did not get the worst of it. Some states were genuinely in a State of Emergency.

A dramatic drop in temperatures always slows down the phones. Which is timely, as we are preparing for the warm-up, and the many panicked, overnight calls we will receive. As our community went from -14℉ to 56℉ on Christmas Eve, frozen, cracked pipes began to thaw, causing floods throughout the city. To compound matters, this happened over the holidays, which adds an untold number of complications to an already difficult situation.

We had a customer who left town just before the deep freeze for a few days to visit family over the holidays. She returned home the day after Christmas, having been gone for about 5 days, to find her home flooded, and was still actively flooding  for an unknown amount of days. Every inch of sheetrock in her beautiful 3-story home had been affected by the water.

It is our pleasure to help our clients. Without a doubt, it is both difficult and rewarding to be there with someone in the middle of their crisis. Being the voice of calm and to contribute to the very first steps of getting a client back to normal is what we are in business for.

(Here is a quick video of one of those events).