Do You Have Cold Weather Damage to Your Sprinkler System?
This February, Central Texas experienced the coldest stretch of weather ever recorded at Camp Mabry in Austin. For six days, from February 12th to the 18th, the temperature stayed at or below freezing. This historic freeze lasted 144 hours, and surpassed the previous stretch of 140 hours in December, 1983. Both Austin and San Antonio had single-digit temperatures for the first time in more than 30 years.
Snow records were also broken. Austin had the largest two-day snowfall in over 70 years of 6.4 inches that started the night of February 14th and continued through into the next morning. Beginning February 15th, there was at least one inch of snow on the ground for five consecutive days, smashing the previous record of a three-day stretch that’s occurred only four times before...
