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Old 12-02-2017, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Neal Miller
Too bad We could not of had sent it to the Arctic and made it into a shrine.
We have enough of our own, thanks... I was even forced to create one, eleven years ago:

The sewer line under the street in front of my old house has--hopefully, *had*--a "dip" in it, due to an underground soil subsidence (we have a lot of underground discarded timbers and oil tanks which rot or rust away, leaving underground voids--many were discovered during last summer's installation of new water, steam, sewer, and electric lines downtown). Once and not uncommonly twice each winter, ice would build up in the dipped section, which blocked all of the drainage, including from the toilet. The city refused to do anything about it (they told me they would repair it when the line finally burst--"deferred maintenance" is commonly mentioned here, for financial reasons), but:

While I always called a local pumping & thawing company to open the ice blockage using steam, when my health went south I could no longer afford that, so I had to resort to a method not unlike that used by your "fly [away] by night" tenants. After the toilet filled up, I shoveled it into a black plastic trash bag, which I kept next to the sink's vanity. For a while I still had a tiny bit of drainage, so I showered as rapidly as I could (while standing well back, to avoid being splashed by the soon up-flowing liquefied sewage). Then:

When even that very slight drainage stopped, after each shower I bailed out the bathtub with a 2-liter soft drink bottle, whose top I cut off to facilitate faster filling and dumping. I poured this brown water outside, where it collected in the area where my front walk met the sidewalk (there was thick snow and plenty of ice everywhere else, so my strangely-colored slab of ice wasn't any more dangerous to walk on than any other place in town), and:

I wondered what it would look like--and smell like--in the spring, but to my surprise, microbial activity had consumed the waste by then (it had sunk to the bottom of the water before it froze), leaving almost completely clear water behind. The solid waste was another matter; it took weeks for it to disappear from the grass next to my front walk, where I disposed of it. (One of my neighbors had two wolf hybrid dogs, who they let run loose--until they rolled in it one day before they returned home...)
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