Frozen pipes keeping local plumbers busy during frigid weather Frozen pipes keeping local plumbers busy during frigid weather By Nazarene Harris | February 15, 2021 at 10:18 PM CST - Updated February 15 at 10:18 PM LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Plumbers across Lawton have been bombarded with calls for help since last week when temperatures took a nose dive causing pipes to freeze. Mark Pippin has been in the plumbing business since 1978. He says he’s only seen things get this bad a few times. “It seems like it happens about every ten years. I was just thinking about it and 2011 was a bad year and it was about ten years before that, I don’t know the exact date, but we had another time when it was really bad,” he said.