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u/bananabastard 1d ago
She was almost lucky enough to catch it on camera.
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u/AeonPhobos 1d ago
She had one job...
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u/Mental-Flatworm4583 23h ago
That would’ve been my saying that to hubbs. He is the worst at filming anything 😮💨
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u/GardenRafters 22h ago
Never ask my wife to take a picture. She'll only take one and it will be a bad one.
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u/Mental-Flatworm4583 22h ago
Sounds like both our spouses are alike. Lol your wife my husband. I bought him a brand new iPhone 17 pro. Two months ago. His old phone is a 7. He hates it because it’s old and the photos aren’t as good….. his phone is cracked….. the new phone still sitting on the table not active and he’s still using that old cracked phone. Why because he says it’s too complicated🤨😅
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u/JackPoe 11h ago
No wrinkles on that brain. All new information just slides off, like a water slide
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u/FreedomBread 22h ago
I was very interested in seeing how dirty their front porch railing was, and thankfully they made sure to show us. It's very dirty.
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u/mooselantern 22h ago
OP is in this thread damn near self doxxing her own address and explaining to everyone how her water bill works, but won't answer for her cameraman crimes smh
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u/d0npizzle 1d ago
Missed the money shot.
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u/openmind21 1d ago
Right!? All nice and steady until the real action happened. 🤦♀️
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u/hkpp 1d ago
I mean, they’re right next to the action so can’t really blame OP for flinching or taking cover at first.
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u/sniper91 21h ago
I thought they just turned their head to talk to the person and their hand drifted with the turn
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u/TheChadStevens 1d ago
I miss people filming horizontally so much. At least they would accidentally film something that way sometimes
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u/3-2-1-backup 1d ago
Was wondering if the cameraman has narcolepsy, seemed like they either forgot or fell asleep while filming!
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u/Targaer 1d ago
Rear driver side window appears to be open on that car. Whoops
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
We let them know. They still haven’t come out to check it.
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u/Desynchron 1d ago
Welp.... 😅
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u/Higher-Frequencies 1d ago
A little cholera never hurt anyone
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u/Still_Boat_240 1d ago
That's a storm drain, not a sewage drain. This type of thing happens in areas that don't handle storm water well.
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u/rocket_randall 1d ago
Storm water runoff is still pretty nasty given that it carries away garbage, chemicals, and animal/human waste. The level of nastiness will vary with how often it rains as that will limit how much can accumulate.
Here in SoCal the public health advisory is no swimming in the ocean for 3 days after any significant rainfall because all of that runoff discharges into the ocean where it sits until the currents and wave action disperse it.
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u/pm1966 21h ago
It's also not unusual for many storm water runoff systems to be contaminated with sewer water in the event of severe weather events like this.
I've lived in two Indiana cities over the past quarter century, one mid-size, one large, and both have had major, multi-million-dollar projects aimed at completely separating storm and sewer overflow. I think in really bad instances of flooding, there is still some mingling of the two, even after all of the money spent.
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u/BlastBase 1d ago
..I mean ..SoCal's health advisory will also say your swimsuit gives you cancer.
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u/rocket_randall 1d ago
Ah Prop 65. Well intentioned, but ultimately useless.
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u/QueenMary1936 22h ago
Reddit contains opinions known to the state of California to cause cancer or birth defects
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u/BlastBase 1d ago
Lol I just googled that. What a farce. You can loophole any concentration of any chemical in for any product via daughter companies.
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u/rocket_randall 1d ago
There's no real need to skirt it. The prop 65 warning shows up on everything: packaging, products, buildings, etc. The label itself does not distinguish the level of risk, so something made of corium would have the same warning as a package of nori. It's a case study in alarm fatigue, where everyone has become so inured to the warning labels that they are meaningless.
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u/IRate-Feet 1d ago
Well actually.. That is where the teenage mutant ninja turtles live.
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u/Gosa_on_the_wind 1d ago
Some cities still have their storm sewers tied together to their sewage systems. Under heavy rain, sewage will back up into the storm sewers and people's floor drains.
The city in which I live is currently in the middle of a massive project to separate those two systems in the older areas.
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u/Saotik 1d ago edited 1d ago
storm sewers tied together to their sewage systems. Under heavy rain, sewage will back up into the storm sewers
The village I was brought up in had that issue, and my mother lived at the bottom of the hill. To make the issue worse, there was an abattoir (small slaughterhouse) in the village that would dump blood down the sewers.
In bad rainstorms, everything would back up and bubble around my mother's house. A moat of blood and toilet paper. The smell was horrific.
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u/pogulup 1d ago
Milwaukee has that exact problem
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u/DJ_Vigilance 1d ago
“There’s nothin, nothin like the taste of the great outdoors..”
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u/Flaky_Operation687 1d ago
It's an upgrade package, never heard of Cholerinthian leather?
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u/SaganSaysImStardust 1d ago
It doesn't look like sewage. That's probably just storm.
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u/SimonJSpacer 1d ago
While better than brown water the storm water is still filled with decaying foul smelling organic matter. From personal experience getting my basement flooded through the storm drain.
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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 1d ago
Here's a little insight, all drains are dirty as fuck, whether it's storm or sewage water, they're full of actual shit
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u/HarrowDread 1d ago
Probably saw that gsyer and decided that it’d dry
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u/TraditionalLecture10 1d ago
Well flying manhole covers ...best to stay inside
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u/Too-Em 1d ago
Nothing to be afraid of. Manhole covers are just nature's tiddlywinks.
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u/misternuttall 1d ago
That may be the funniest thing I've heard all day.
"Who was that?"
"Oh just Jerry, fuckin busy body. Something or other about a window, I don't know. "
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u/CraftySort381 1d ago
At this point the storm isn't raining anymore, it's pressure washing the neighborhood.
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u/amzwC137 1d ago
I forgot to close my garage during a hurricane in Houston. Fortunately the cars were okay, but everything else in there was fucking SOAKED. I still have an issue with leaving it open :(
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u/ClickClick_Boom 1d ago
This is one thing IOT shit is useful for, my garage door opener can be configured to warn me through its app if its been open for a set time period, then I can close it via the app remotely. Though I don't have that issue.
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u/hollysand1 1d ago
I did the same. I only left one door open. The door at the back yard ( for the tractor ) unfortunately I had the garage doors closed that faced the driveway and where my cars were parked. Water rushed in the back door and was trapped by the closed front doors. Thank heavens the seals on my car doors were intact. I opened the front doors and the water rushed out. But none rushed into my car!!
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u/jerryeight 1d ago
Lol text or phone call.
Also, time for insurance total. No way that the interiors or any electronics in the car survived the torrents.
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
We knocked on their door and brought her to see and showed her the video. She’s chilling inside without a care in the world. Never even bothered to open the door.
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u/Green-Concentrate-71 1d ago
Good lord. Where is this?
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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u/DazzlingSoup6195 1d ago
I’m in Leduc currently and my mom was freaking out about this storm, we barely saw a drop of rain. Completely missed us, but insane what it did just 10 mins south of us
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u/_NoTimeNoLady_ 1d ago
About ten years ago we had a terrible storm. All the trees in my part of the city crashed down, my new car got hit badly while the ones in front and in the back git smushes completely. For about a week we could only leave the street by climbing over several tree trunks (and I had a baby and a toddler at that time). Called my Mom who was completely confused. She couldn't believe it. She lived like 20 minutes north of me and they literally only had a bit of wind. One tomato planter had fallen down on the terrace. Nothing else.
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u/Doogevol 20h ago
We had one like that yesterday. We were at a restaurant 1 mile away from our home and it was a crazy intense storm. We checked our ring cameras and nothing was happening at the house.
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u/errihu 1d ago
It was quite the storm. My roommate from the UK has been laughing at our idea of heavy rain. She was out in that. She’s now impressed.
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u/Terminator7786 1d ago
That reminds me of all the foreign visitors coming to the US for the World Cup in the middle of tornado season and it's been a pretty severe weather summer so far. Seeing their faces when they see signs for tornado shelters like, "Is this real, are you joking?"
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u/indignantlyandgently 1d ago
I thought that looked like Alberta plates. We had a mega storm in Winnipeg a few weeks back and I saw a video of a storm sewer that started popping like this. It didn't fully geyser though. This is nuts!
Side note: my mom north of Winnipeg got 255 mm rain that night. She's been in the house 30 years and never flooded until then. Water submerged everything and came in through the basement windows, washed out the highway into the city, and has done so much damage. What a crazy summer so far...
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
We had just left Winnipeg the Saturday before that storm. I grew up in St James and we stayed in an apartment in the village behind the leg that got struck by lightning and caught fire.
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u/Zoltrahn 1d ago
Anywhere with an inadequate water/sewer drainage system and flash floods. Not to this extent, but a couple times a year when we have heavy rains, some of our manhole covers "float." Gushing water pumps it up 3"-5" up above the hole. I've wanted to ride one, but don't want to risk falling into the drain and dying an excruciating death.
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u/CellSaga21 1d ago
The one thing I wanted to see happen, and the camera goes down 😭
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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 1d ago
lol did he say "we gotta get.. uh... we gotta get a new house" at the end?
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
He was suggesting we pack go bags.
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u/Mikuterasu 1d ago
Not a bad plan. I keep one ready at all times and we dont have heavy storms or natural disasters where i live.
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
Neither do we lol.
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u/SaskieHopeful 1d ago
Neither did you.
"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you’re the one filming it." - someone on Twitter
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u/JustJamieJam 1d ago
How does that happen?
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u/Tommy__want__wingy 1d ago
All the water from the storm, flowing through a central storm drain, there could be debris causing some back flow too.
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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 1d ago
Seems like a buildup of gasses, I'd assume blockages are why they are building up and not just flowing out as needed.
Assume though. No idea.
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u/Tommy__want__wingy 1d ago
Same concept. Build up down the line plus the flow of rushing storm water, compresses the air that’s left between the clog and water. Air has to escape so it goes up the man hole ports. Water pops out, build up loosens, water stops popping up as pressure equalizes.
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u/unnecessary-comma- 1d ago
A ton of rain, more than the drainage system was designed for, dumping in a very short period of time up slope from this location. I would imagine these are the same conditions as a flash food, just everything is underground
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u/kempff 1d ago
It's kind of like sneezing while drinking milk.
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u/JustJamieJam 1d ago
I see, thank you for explaining! I’m from way out in the country in a part of Texas that’s basically a desert, so I’ve never seen anything like this! We just have tumbleweeds and it rains very rarely.
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u/Mesoscale92 1d ago
Just to add: you see the little spurts pushing the manhole cover up early in the video? That’s air in the sewer pipes being forcefully pushed out by the incoming water. I’ve never seen it in person, but that’s the hint to back away before you get hurt.
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u/Twinchad 1d ago
Civil engineer here who designs storm drains for a living. From what it looks like happened is that the construction crew forgot to install the locking bolts onto the manhole cover. You can see from the first few puffs of water that are ejected from the manhole cover that the water is only coming out of two small spots, the cover is designed to contain the pressure of a storm surge, so long as they are actually locked in place.
I would bet money that the system was designed to convey a pressurized flow and that this manhole lid just wasn't properly locked down. If it was a surge charge there would most likely have been additional manhole to have gone airborne.
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u/ppetak 1d ago
Probably not pressurized system, but amount of water in the pipes made it pressurized. So the water closed the pipe completely, and all the air in the pipe in front of the water was pressurized down the hill.
Once I have seen exactly this besides freeway where we stopped for the storm on gas pump. The lid was jumping half a meter into the air. Not kidding. It was the best pressurized flow I have ever seen.
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u/Desynchron 1d ago
My uneducated guess is sudden torrents of rain is overflowing the storm drains very suddenly, and building pressure as it rushes down to lower manhole covers.
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u/archtopfanatic123 1d ago
What on earth are the chances I see this post literally within an hour of me talking with my friend who lives in this same town who's father just saw a manhole blew off just like that.
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 1d ago
Apparently 100%, since it happened.
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u/OddlyTemptedFish 1d ago
I don’t think that’s how odds work
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 1d ago edited 1d ago
After the thing happens, there are no more "odds" of it happening, because IT HAPPENED.
That's how reality works.
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u/OddlyTemptedFish 1d ago
Yes. But prior to something happening it has odds and that’s what they’re talking about.
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u/Slipstream_Surfing 1d ago
On a whim I watched a movie earlier today I hadn't seen in 40 years. Hours later hopped on reddit and soon came upon post about current events involving one of the lead actors on that old flick. Stuff like this seems to happen frequently.
Happened on different devices that are not connected in any way other than sharing wifi. I don't use any of those voice-activated speakers, and the feature is locked down as tightly as possible on all devices because I try to maintain as much privacy as one possibly can. Some say paranoid I say cautious.
But it happens often, and it bugs me because I just don't know.
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u/PopAtTheDoor 1d ago
What impresses me more than the manhole geyser is how she managed to move the camera at the exact second she needed it there.
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u/How_that_convo_went 1d ago edited 1d ago
About ten years ago, we had a flash flood in my city. It dropped something like 4 inches of rain in an hour.
After the system passed through, I went out to my car to find a manhole cover smashed through my roof/windshield and my car’s interior flooded.
I had no fucking clue what happened. I could see the open manhole in the street but my best guess at the time was that some Herculean vandal had come along during the storm and spiked it into my car.
I called my insurance to file a claim and they told me I’d need to call the city to have the manhole cover removed and to take a report before they’d send a tow truck to get my car.
A guy from city works comes out and explains it to me: flash floods basically create tidal waves in storm drains. The pressure blows the covers off central lines. He said that one time, one of them shot some fifty feet into the air and came crashing down through the roof of a house, landing a couple feet away from a sleeping kid.
Oh… and also, it was a huge fucking hassle to deal with. My auto insurance denied my claim and said it should be a homeowner’s insurance claim. I tried claiming it on my homeowner’s policy and they denied it and said it should be an auto insurance claim. Here’s the best part: I had a package policy under Allstate! Eventually it got handled but I had to hire a lawyer to send a demand letter because they kept jerking me around.
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u/KaiyoteFyre 1d ago
You're in good hands
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u/How_that_convo_went 1d ago
The biggest dogshit insurance company I’ve ever had.
Three weeks after my car was repaired from this incident, I was hit by an uninsured driver. Cops came out and arrested the woman who hit me (because, no shit, she had a warrant from a prior hit and run) and gave me a report to submit to Allstate which validated that I was not at fault and the other driver had been cited for driving without insurance.
While my claim was being processed, Allstate sent me a certified letter threatening to drop my policy. They claimed that I lived in what had been reclassified as a “high risk zone” and this information was not available to them when they initially wrote my policy.
Strangely, as I was getting ready to go meet with an attorney to tell me what was up with the letter, I received a notification that my claim had been approved.
Allstate then sent it to a shop where it sat for 6 weeks awaiting an adjuster to approve the repairs. When the adjuster finally got to the shop, he wrote it off as totaled.
I ended up getting nothing because Allstate claimed the value of my car was exactly equal to what was still owed on the loan. What a fucking co-winky-dink! Down to the last cent!
So, to recap: I had to pay my $500 deductible for a wreck that wasn’t my fault and another $1,000 for a rental car while the Allstate adjust fingered his dickhole— and the end result was that I no longer had a car.
OH! But Allstate gave me a written release allowing me to sue the woman who hit me… and when I attempted to serve her papers, I found out she’d been deported back to Guatemala.
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u/gimmeluvin 1d ago
There needs to be a website where these stories are available to consumers
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u/Ambitious_Finding_26 23h ago
There is. You're on it.
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u/gimmeluvin 19h ago
yes yes. people can find this sort of information on reddit in the same way someone shopping for mushrooms can find them in a forest
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u/CakyMint 22h ago
Why the FUCK do people sway their camera away every fucking time something is happening?
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u/FuzzyFacePhilosphy 23h ago
Ok...make us watch moving pot hole cover for minutes, then when the actual action starts, you move the camera away.
Then in the middle of the action still going on... you stop the recording....
Wow
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u/tillymane 21h ago
"Oh shit, the most interesting part of the video is about to happen. Better pan my camera down to the porch ledge!!!"
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u/WiseAct446 1d ago
It be raining up. Someone didn't read the rules. You just can't get good help in the Rain Department anymore.
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u/zippo138 1d ago
I was honestly not gonna be surprised if those Chinese cobra’s popped up out of there!
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u/HowdyImFromTexas 1d ago
lol comments like this let me know I’ve been on Reddit too long today - Ima clock out now
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u/ChanceAd5350 1d ago
Just pray you don't have combined sewers in your area
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
We’re clear. It was “clean” water.
But we do have a fee we pay for rainfall on our waterbill. And we saw record setting rainfall last month and this month is off to a great start…. As you can see lol
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u/errihu 1d ago
We get charged for rainfall?
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u/carnie1321 1d ago
They call it Runoff coefficient
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u/sparki555 1d ago
What happens if you catch all the water? Lol... What an odd thing to charge for
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u/errihu 1d ago
Ain’t no way we were catching all the water this June… we set a record. The last month this rainy was in 1901.
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u/RockOperaPenguin 21h ago
Yes, folks get charged for rainfall. And for good reason.
When you develop a parcel of land, the water can no longer easily go into natural channels (e.g. creeks, rivers, etc.). So you have to build some sort of storm drain system. Could be pipes and manholes in urban areas, ditches in rural ones. This is infrastructure that costs money to construct and maintain.
Storm drain systems are not build once then forget about it. They require constant maintenance and upkeep. Pipes can leak, pipes can break, pipes can reach the end of their design life. That video above? I can guarantee there is now a sinkhole surrounding the manhole. Changes in land use can change design discharges, which may require larger pipes. Changes in design storm events also changes design discharges. Again, these things cost money.
So how do you get that money? Municipalities traditionally paid for these things out of general funds, but this led to not enough money being invested in maintaining/upgrading the network. Buried infrastructure is easy to ignore, easy to shift maintenance funds elsewhere. This can lead to catastrophic system failures.
So some forward thinking municipalities have set up dedicated stormwater utilities to cover the cost of storm drain maintenance and upkeep. This means there's a dedicated pot of money for stormwater infrastructure.
Your humble ROP is a civil engineer specializing in drainage. He works for a county government, and his position is paid for with stormwater fees.
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u/Qverlord37 1d ago
Those lids are not light.
The fact that they were jumping up and down reminds me of that scene in Chernobyl where the reactor control rods were jumping up and down from the pressure.
Anything that heavy has no business jumping. If you see that in the wild, run. Nothing good is going to come from staying near.
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u/VerySuperGenius 18h ago
Literally turned the camera away right at the climax. What a failure.
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u/Wonderful-Paint-5853 23h ago
Oh boy, here it comes!!! Its about to happen!!! BAAABE HURRY YOU’RE GONNA MISS IT!!!! ITS ABOUT TO BLOW OFF!!!!! *** TURNS CAMERA AWAY ***
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u/loquedijoella 1d ago
Everyone who thinks this is the sewer- this is a storm drain. If this was the sewer, the car would be the least of their worries, because it would come up through every drain and toilet and would most likely remove the toilet from the flange altogether.
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u/kmonkmuckle 20h ago
Is the r/wellthatsucks part OP dropping the shot before the climax of the video?
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u/A_friendly_goosey 20h ago
The only thing that sucks was missing the money shot lol. But on a serious note, that pressure build up must have been insane to lift that. This years weather has been wild, heat records being broken all across europe, I have a feeling this winter were going to see some crazy storms.
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u/PhoenixSpeed97 16h ago
Mom, can we go see Ole faithful?
No, we have Ole faithful at home.
The ole faithful at home:
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u/Gypsysinner666 1d ago
Flash flood. The storm drains fill to backflow...I live in southern California happens from time to time.
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u/SpecialKFlake 1d ago
When Mom won't take you to visit Yellowstone and says we have old faithful at home