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Things just keep going boom all over the world. Even here.
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12 September: Death toll rises to seven and six people are still missing....
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love, 99
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10 September 2010
explosion at home
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Things just keep going boom all over the world. Even here.
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12 September: Death toll rises to seven and six people are still missing....
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love, 99
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PG&E is already in hot water over an incident here on Christmas morning several years ago. The wrong material was used to patch a gas line leading to a residence in Rancho Cordova.
ReplyDeleteThe residents smelled gas and reported it to PG&E who had people on scene trying to find a leak when the explosion occurred.
Five of the residents were seriously injured and one person was killed.
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They've been working on a leak in the intersection 1/2 block from my house 4 times now in the last 2 months - this is not very comforting!
(Every time they have shown up with jack hammers, back hoes and 5,000,000 watt flood lights has been at around 1:00 in the morning!)
Move.
ReplyDeleteLet's go overtake Mr. North at Wendigo Beach.
And in Arizona, regulators include a notice in monthly bills sent by Southwest Gas Corp., which serves nearly 2 million natural gas customers in the state and in California and Nevada. The notice warns that “buried steel gas lines are subject to the effects of corrosion if they are not maintained, which could result in leakage,” and says it’s the customer’s responsibility to monitor the lines “to identify these potential problems before they become hazardous.”
ReplyDeleteWTF?
The customer must monitor the pipes? So the home owner is supposed to dig them up once in awhile to see if they are corroding?
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Let's go overtake Mr. North at Wendigo Beach.
ReplyDeleteYes!
He says he's gonna have a hunnert an twenny acres and some draft horses and grow vegetables. I got dibs on the barn loft with claw foot tub, and horse training duties.
ReplyDeleteYou can plot the polar bear refuge, Rin can help run the vegetable stand, and yer girls can manage all pet and livestock issues, plus help keep the crops hoed... and be our wood haulers in the winter.
As for the power companies, they ALL stopped doing regular maintenance about thirty years ago. They started having to pay for that pretty dearly about fifteen years ago, at least in California, but I guess the bean counters did the math and figured they were still ahead.
ReplyDeleteBetter we make our OWN community and be responsible for its maintenance. That's DOABLE and the number of corporate and government fuckers who can ruin our lives goes waaaaay down.
They redid our water and sewer lines here about 23 years ago. Recently I had to shut the water off to fix a leaky faucet. The valve just outside my door would not shut off fully, leaving a trickle flowing. I tried to find the shutoff at the street but came up empty - couldn't find any sign of a valve. I had to turn the hoses on in the front and back of the house to relief the water flow at the faucet I was fixing.
ReplyDeleteThe sewer main now has a dip in it somewhere near where my house line attaches. Every couple of years they come and run a camera through the sewer to inspect it. They bring this huge truck that has a blower on it and hook it up to the sewer line then blast air through to clear it before they run the camera through. Due to the low spot forming a plug, the first two times they did it they blew the water right out of my toilet bowl with so much force it blasted all over the ceiling and walls. We were gone the first time and couldn't figure out what had happened, the second time we were home and I went down and complained to the operator. He grabbed a bucket, mop, brush and jug of disinfectant and washed down the whole bathroom. They were supposed to come and put in a check valve but never did.
To stop it from happening in the future I took the cap off the clean-out in the service box out by the street. Now the air pressure is relieved there.
Rin had just moved in and was doing dishes when they put in the new water line. She was washing dishes and had the water running when they shut it off. She thought she had turned both the hot and cold faucets off.
ReplyDeleteSoon after, her mom stopped by and they took off for the afternoon. No one came to the door to announce they were turning off the water, nor, as it turned out, did they check before turning it back on.
Shortly before quitting time at work I got a phone call from her. "Don't come home!" she said. After insisting several times that I not come home she sheepishly said "I flooded the house."
I grabbed the wet-vac from work and headed home. She had turned the cold water valve the correct way, but the hot water valve was turned full on. The sink drains were plugged since they still had a load of dishes in them.
When I got home the only room that wasn't flooded was our bedroom. The metal transition strip for the new carpet in that room had kept the water out. Everything else was sopping wet.
Poor girl was terrified - her ex-husband would have beat her for this. She couldn't believe I was laughing as I used a piece of leftover crown molding as a carpet squeegee while she sucked up the water behind it. After a while huge bubbles began to form under the carpet. Thinking they were trapped air I started working them towards the wall. Out oozed shaving cream consistency foam - left over carpet shampoo had lathered under the carpet as we squeegeed. Next we went to all of our friends to borrow fans to dry things out.
I only had the house and the insurance for about a year and a half and was reluctant to file a damage claim so we just dried it all out and lived with it.
You know, sometimes I think it's a good job you live so far away. The disaster rate around you is breathtaking! :-P
ReplyDeleteDid I ever tell you about the time ....?
ReplyDeleteNooooooooooooooo! I can't take it! I keep thinking yer gonna die, like drown in yer own waterbed or something....
ReplyDeleteTwas back in the day in EAST SACRAMENTO, and I was busy in the kitchen of my best friends new home, we were having a drinking (tm) and painting party, while mucking with the crap in the sink I decided I needed to have the water running. Little did I know there was a flat plastic cap in there, near invisible. Let's just say a couple of beers and smokes later I came back to my workstation to find a waterfall rushing down the steps to the garage, the 1 inch (or so) sheen on the water was into the living room carpet about 15-20 feet! Needless to say I popped another beer and went to work for the next 12 hours. Somehow I managed to clean all the water out..
ReplyDeleteNext day, we had another party, whiskey, and everything, I was still a young buck back then and wanted to try out my fire breathing skills, After everyone was good and fucked up, I ting Ting'd and said everyone outside, and check this out, I Fucking had two glasses one water one lighterfluid, took a big glob of the lighter fluid and lit my lighter and WOOF the giant-est fucking mushroom cloud I ever seen, ever did I won't even try to say the size because I was too fucked up to accurately remember, but eventually a jackass who I finally cut off years later started a small boxing match with me. Calling me the devil and shit.. Those were the days...
~p
ps we actually HAD a real squeegee, I don't know why or how though...
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Um, now ya got me thinkin. In the 60's, I lived in South Sacramento, and there was a guy (Scott) down the street who was washing his garage. There was Oil and Grease, so he used GASOLINE since it was what 24 cents a fuckin gallon back then, well he finished washing everything and closed the doors and went off to something else, KA-FUCKIN-BOOM the pilot light caught the fumes and the windows were blown out and the whole garage was fucking black again!!
ReplyDeleteI can't take credit for that one.
But I did stay at a MOTEL once... $2000 and cops later..
Here's how the MOTEL went down. I had just come off of a contracting without a license job, in my rebuilt, but unregistered ford truck, I was GIVING my truck to my friend (a $3,500 value) We were partying downtown, and my friend was drunk, I said just park the fucking car and sleep, but no he wasn't rough like I was, (I was building folsom, Ca at the time and my HOME for about two years was my truck on the jobsite) and anyway, he fucking had to have a motel, so we went to a motel 6, and got a room, shortly around 11PM the phone rang it was the office and they said you can't have three people in the room, Me, My Pal, and his Girl. So they said okay, and hung up, 11:15 get another call, same thing. I was hella fired up and thinking they were spying on us, so I started removing all electrical plates and dismantling the bathroom, by midnight, the office called Sac PD, who came to the door and tried to get in, MY PAL and his GIRL were passed out on the bed, so it was only ME, BEING REAL QUIET AND HOLDING the fucking doorknob from turning. They tried key after key, and eventually both the cops and the office fuckwad went away, so I bolted out, an headed for a phone to get a ride the fuck out of there, we'll it turns out I did apparently 2000 of damage.
ReplyDeleteRemoved the screws on all the electrical outlets, phone, and tv, and the toilet was next to the bathtub, my buddy told me, the cops came in and said what the fuck is going on and my friend said he had to piss, so he went to the bathroom and the only thing to piss in was a HOLE in the floor where the toilet used to be.
Mind you I never planned on Led Zeppelin-ing a hotel room. We'll have to chock this one up to wisdom. (note: I could have put everything back in 30 minutes, nothing was broken)
Now the bad part. Motel 6 SPIED on the room using the telephone. That's how they knew, they heard my "third voice." The cops caught me, and tried to fuck me on the unregistered vehicle, but I HAD HONESTLY just gave the vehicle to him, and it was his, for this fuckup in my wording I lost all my tools as they impounded the truck.
Dude had to pay 2 grand, wasn't all happy with me but didn't hate me either.
Um, motel 6 is a spying motherfucker.
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And the rebuild truck was a loss. Forgot that nasty part...
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