I’m not buying that. It got down to 24F on Saturday. Cold but certainly not enough to crack pipes, in my experience.
The high was in the high 40’s with the mean temp at 35.
These are indoor pipes which means that ambient indoor temperature was somewhat warmed by the building itself.
A 3/4” pipe can flow about 7 gallons per minute. Assuming the pipe broke early Saturday morning and was discovered Monday morning, at most 20,000 gallons would have flowed from one broken pipe. The odds of multiple pipes cracking in such relatively mild temperatures are exceedingly low.
Plus, 7gpm is for a fully open pipe. A cracked pipe doesn’t usually fully break, instead it splits, thus reducing flow.
If they lost hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, it was something far more than a simple broken pipe.
Striking teachers perhaps?
This is weird, I might be taking a cross country road trip next week and just checked online to see if Oklahoma accepts EZ Pass (it does not), and I see this article about the Oklahoma Turnpike.
At least it wasn’t the fire sprinkler authority offices!
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What global warming?
This stuff happens all the time.
I actually had to do a pipe profile survey in the attic of the Sierra Lodge in Mammoth Lakes for a court exhibit over this kind of damage.
If I remember corectly the damage was about $5 million at the hotel.
Another reason NOT to pay tax refunds on state taxes!
One of the companies offices had radiator fluid pour into their office from some repair shop above them. I have photos of green fluid on the floor, desks etc.