‘The shop was full of water’: South Georgia businesses see impacts from holiday freeze

TIFTON, Ga. (WALB) – A number of plumbing corporations throughout Georgia noticed many calls due to the chilly climate over the vacation weekend. Each companies and other people have been impacted.

John Marshall Harvey, a salesman at Motion Buildings in Tifton, says they have been with out water since Sunday.

“You already know, over the Christmas holidays, we had some extraordinarily chilly climate there and I acquired a name early Sunday morning saying that my pipes have been busted by the yard. Man, ya know not the best time on Christmas morning at 7 a.m. to determine that out,” Harvey mentioned.

Steven Keith and Jody Johnson are welders at Notfit Designs in Tifton. Their pipe burst on Sunday and flooded all the enterprise. They advised WALB it was wrapped with electrical tape to cease the water from flooding the enterprise till it may be repaired correctly.

“I pulled in and observed water all over the place and walked within the store and see water going into the store proper by our plasma desk. I figured that wasn’t an excellent place for a busted pipe to be across the electrical energy. The store was stuffed with water,” Keith mentioned.

Keith says he known as administration, they usually have been capable of contact the town to show the water fully off. Notfit Designs not solely skilled water points however misplaced energy as properly.

WALB spent the day tagging together with Brian Baldree, of Crumley and Burks Plumbing Firm as they responded to over 20 calls over the vacation weekend.

The primary cease was beneath somebody’s dwelling. They are saying they acquired calls from calls throughout, Tifton, Valdosta, Albany and Americus. A few of the service repairs have been extreme.

“We had one the place the pipes ran within the attic the pipes bust within the attic. The residents weren’t dwelling so once they got here dwelling, they got here to a home fully flooded,” Baldree added.

With the climate warming again within the coming days, Baldree predicts that the service requires pipes ought to be slowing down a bit.

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