Despite our efforts to keep our pipes from freezing here at the shop, Mother Nature got one over on us today. Pictured above is a photograph taken of the men's bathroom at the Golf Maintenance building. Because of the recent cold weather, we have been maintaining a constant drip in our bathrooms to keep the water in the pipes moving. We had also installed electrical coils that wrap over the pipes to keep them warm and free from ice. After hearing the crash, we soon realized that these methods shouldn't be expected to work 100percent of the time with temperatures being this low. Seeing this destruction makes me glad we blew the irrigation system out two weeks ago. While some irrigation failures are inevitable in the spring, I would hate to have miles of irrigation pipe to go through and repair when the ground thaws out.
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