Cola Wealth Advisors Team Overcomes Water Damage After Frozen Pipe Bursts

On December 27th, 2022 at about 4:00 am, members of the Cola Wealth team arrived at their office in Lexington, SC, only to be met with several inches of water spilling over their shoes as they opened the door. Rushing to the source, they found water gushing from the ceiling of the right front offices, where a pipe had frozen and burst due to intensely cold weather.

Jumping into action, the team tried to turn the water off themselves but didn't have any luck. So, they finally called 911 for help. Shortly after, four firemen arrived at the scene; however, they were unable to turn off the geyser, so they called the Town of Lexington Water Services, who also happened to be unable to assist. At last, they contacted the gentleman who performs maintenance on the firm's sprinkler system, Steve Dawson. Fortunately, Steve was able to reach a solution and turn off the water.

By this time, the entire office had been submerged in three inches of water, and the ceilings of two offices were lying in soggy lumps on the floor and furniture with a few tenacious slabs still hanging limply from the rafters. A fresh whirlwind of activity ensued as Prestige Systems and Roto Rooter were called to the scene to begin the water mitigation process.

Around 6:00 am, the remainder of Cola Wealth's employees began to arrive fresh off the three-day weekend to find their workplace rather more aquatic than they left it on Friday. Rallying together, the team assigned various tasks, from lifting everything off the floor to relocating bigger pieces of furniture to the patio to prevent further damage, evaluating the condition of computers and other equipment, and so on. In addition, they coordinated another team to operate from the East Wing building to communicate with clients and ensure that regular business processes were being conducted to the best of their ability.