We see a lot of these jobs here in wonderful, cold, NE Ohio. In a lot of cases, these properties belong to "Snowbirds"....people who live up North for 3 seasons, then head to Florida for the Winter. Trouble is, they set their furnace thermostats at 45*, thinking it will keep the whole house warm enough NOT to freeze up. Well, with wind chills in the -30 range, it sucks the heat right out of these places, and before long, there go the pipes. Or maybe the power shuts off for a few hours, and the furnace shuts down. I just got back from a condo job where the unit we were extracting was flooded by the neighboring unit that had a burst pipe. Neighbor has been out of town for 2 weeks, and a pipe had burst. No access into this unit, but got the water turned off to that unit. I can imagine what the locked unit looks like.
We'll get more starting this week. Weather is warming up, and rain is expected on Friday, on top of the 18-20 inches of snow already on the ground and on the roofs.
Ah....WD.....good for some......bad for others.