Scott Hodge, owner of Frog and Toad Landscape, said calls have been coming in non-stop from packing up plants to turning off irrigation systems.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – A Coastal Bend landscaping company is busy helping residents prepare their homes for the upcoming freeze next week.
Scott Hodge, owner of Frog and Toad Landscape, said calls have been coming in non-stop from packing up plants to turning off irrigation systems.
“We have been inundated with calls and currently have about 28 to 30 homes that we will be taking care of plants and irrigation systems in the Aransas Pass, Port Aransas and Rockport area,” Hodge said.
Hodge offers some tips on how to prepare your home for frost.
“If you want to protect your pipes, you should cover all hose connections with a well-insulated cover,” he said. “Your backflow preventer, as we show you, is sticking out of the ground. You want to leave this on and cover it all the way to the floor, whether it's with a real backflow cover or an old blanket or a moving blanket, and you want to cover this tightly, tape it down, secure it, and protect it from the elements.
Hodge urges the community to start preparing now before it is too late.
“If you want to do it yourself, you have to get the materials,” he said. “I was in Lowes yesterday and people were walking out with armloads of pipe wrap. Yesterday they no longer had any pipe foil, no more frost protection blankets, no more hose bib covers. You want to be ahead in this regard.”
In Corpus Christi, Sutherland manager Angell Solis said they are already running out of some supplies as people prepare for the freeze.
“The faucet covers. That’s the main thing that everyone comes for and we had a lot of them and they sold out,” Solis said. “And I’m sure all the other places are sold out too.”
Both Hodge and Solis urge the community to take precautions in your home to ensure pipes don't burst from the frost.