Time to Worry?
The rain came and quickly went, and now the sun is back out again.
But there is something very troubling that is growing in the street right in front of our home:
We used to have just a slight dip in the road, right on top of where the sewer pipes run. In fact, you can see the manhole cover for that main pipe, just to the left of this new body of water growing in our street.
In the last few months, that dip has become an increasingly deep hole that is now a small pond when it rains.
I remember talking with our builder when he was putting in the connecting pipes into that main sewage line. I always worried about not having a big enough pipe coming out of our house (we do have some people in this house that could easily fill a small pipe), and I certainly didn’t want a backup in that 4 inch pipe. I never anticipated a possible leak or break in the main line…and I certainly hope that’s not what this is.
In business, we have “continuity of business operations” plans. I think I need to seriously think through a “continuity of use of the facilities” plan.
I’d hate to have to plan my use of “the facilities” well in advance so I could drive elsewhere instead of using mine at home, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be caught “facilities-less” if indeed we had a catastrophic failure in the main sewer line.
I wonder what my neighbors would think if we put a portable toilet out back…just in case…for emergency purposes only…and even let them use it if a total shut down did indeed occur while they dug up our street.Â
It might be like Noah building the ark. I’d be scoffed at for being proactive and planning ahead. That’s the norm nowadays. But I could be a real hero if indeed “the facilities” were shut down in all of our homes. It might be a pretty long line though.
I may need to think about this just a little bit more!