BurningbirdLong time buddies know about the issues we’ve had with the sewer connection. We’re connected to the head of a gravity main. Unfortunately, the town next door has a force main that dumps into the gravity main at the same spot. Our lateral sewer connection is sufficient but shallow, especially when the force main pumps […]
By my rain gauge yesterday, we had 3.98 inches of rain, and that’s not accounting for what fell after Midnight. We’ve had heavy rains before, but this one seemed to be a particular problem in the O’Fallon area. Last night we tried to flush our toilets, and they weren’t going anywhere. The seal on one […]
Not long ago, I received an email from a person praising one of my writings. He wanted me to know, however, that he doesn’t take sites like mine seriously because it’s a personal web site, and therefore, not credible. Because my site lacked credibility, he didn’t feel he could share the writing with others. I was […]
The sewer district system engineer is coming out this morning. It isn’t normal to have the problems we’re having. And last night, I didn’t sleep at all because the pipes, toilets, and plumbing were bubbling all night. I know this is nothing compared to people’s homes flooding, but it wears you down. Especially if these […]
According to Dictionary.com, triangulation is: The location of an unknown point, as in navigation, by the formation of a triangle having the unknown point and two known points as the vertices. When I studied history in college I had a professor tell me that the only way to discover the truth behind an event is […]