Call Before You Dig

Submitted ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

For the first time in a long time, I have a woman asking me if I want to meet for a coffee.

I’d love to, but some fucking moron decided to dig without calling first and busted open a water main for the whole neighborhood and now I can’t even take a shower. I am about to go to the store to buy a bunch of jugs of water just so I can flush the toilet.

No timeline on when it’s going to be fixed, either.

Sometimes it really feels like the universe just likes to spit in my fucking face and then laugh at me.

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Lag@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Explain this to her and reschedule. Best case she will invite you over to take a shower at her place before the coffee.

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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Already did that, and didn’t get a response. 🙄
  
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  - rollmagma@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Hey, can’t go have coffee with you because the water’s been cut and I can’t shower after the big dump I took. No flushing either =D.
    
    (that’s how it went in my mind)
    
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  - HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Can you use a gym?
    
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pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Head to a truck stop.

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Power went out and PGE said it wouldn’t be restored for like five days. I built a habit of going to Starbucks every day and charging all my devices. Then I would read until the sun set. Then I’d pass the time watching tv episodes that I’d downloaded at Starbucks until I fell asleep.

The universe is a fickle asshole. Hope your water is back soon.

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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Always keep at least three days worth of drinking water in your home, a gallon per person per day. So many emergency situations, large or small, can make water unavailable or unsafe. Having filters is also helpful, but you need actual full bottles on hand. For less plastic, go with the big bottles, you can drink from cups. And OP could have washed pits and crotch at least using some of his drinking water, since it’s not citywide so he could buy more on the way home from coffee.

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A_A@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
cut the electric breaker to your hot water tank so you don’t burst and eating element if there is lower water level inside the tank.

Now you can use this tank as a water supply. You take water from the bottom tap of the water tank. Let the air come inside the tank by opening another top level hot water faucet anywhere inside the home. Be careful to (carefully) refill the water tank once municipal supply goes back on.

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- SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Please don’t drink or use water from a hot water tank, it has to be kept warm for safety reasons.
  
  Legionaries decease.
  
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  - A_A@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just boil the water before using it. Consider it under boiling advisory.
    
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- stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No, do not under any circumstances use the hot water tank as a water source!
  
  This can be deadly!
  
  Legionnaires’ disease is bad shit.
  
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  - A_A@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Just boil the water before using it. Consider it under boiling advisory.
    
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infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Meet up somewhere outside and stay sweaty!

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- HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  And baby wipe shower first
  
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teft@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The YMCA has showers. Just saying.

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slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Very curious if a match for SnotFluckerman might be TissueBoogercatch.

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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wanted to plant a tree today. Dug a hole. Hit my Internet cable and cut it clean in half. Just my Internet cable though, not the whole neighbourhood. But still… no Internet until at least Tuesday.
I don’t how calling could have saved me from this predicament though. But at least now you know the universe doesn’t hate you, it hates everyone equally.

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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  www.callbeforeyoudig.org/washington/
  
  At least in Washingon there are free services to locate pipes and lines for this exact purpose.
  
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  - Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, joe shmoe the average homeowner is never going to hit a water main. Those are going to be over 6ft down so there’s basically no way you hit one with a shovel.
    
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  - SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    In Canada, click before you dig (same thing rebranded) they can only locate public utilities. So water, power, gas, maybe main data lines. But private lines aren’t, so if someone installed a shed and ran power, clock before you dig can’t find it.
    
    Sometimes you need to pay a private locator, they will dig through permits and use tools to locate possible lines. But if a homeowner buried their own power or water lines…. Your SOL in all regards.
    
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- Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Calling is how you get someone to make sure there’s no cables down there.
  
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  - walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I doubt they’d mark non-dangerous, buried by the lowest bidder, no paperwork fiber cables. But you never know.
    
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ZeldaFreak@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
When its about taking a shower, the gym (you may can take a free lesson or pay for a single session), the swimming pool/spa and even truck stops have showers. Also it can be a topic to talk about and maybe she invites you over.

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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If there’s possible sex in the future, I’d hit the truck stop for a shower.

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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ask to use hers. It might lead to a romcom moment.

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