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2014-11-17 Arabia

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Happens around here too. When it rains hard sometimes the drains back up and push the manhole covers off, and people wading through the flooded streets fall into the holes and drown. Doesn't strike me that Jeddah has quite the same excuse.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-11-17 07:57|| 2014-11-17 07:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Were this up to AP/MSM standards, these manholes would be called "people holes" or "non-gender specific holes."

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-17 08:51|| 2014-11-17 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in '79 I was doing some drainage work in Columbus, Georgia. We had to wait to install the manhole covers until just a few hours before the city inspectors showed up because if we did it any sooner they would all be stolen and sold for scrap.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-11-17 10:41|| 2014-11-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Solution: Open season on manhole thieves.

Posted by gorb 2014-11-17 15:01|| 2014-11-17 15:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Deacon blues: they are still stealing them. Also stealing storm drain covers on the side of the interstates.

Posted by chris 2014-11-17 17:47|| 2014-11-17 17:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Glenmore,

Well, FWIW, I was a proud survivor of what was called the 'Spring Break Rotation' for Operation Southern Watch (Jan-Jun '95). Hail and torrential rains in central Saudi Arabia...for nearly a WEEK. Literally could not get up to al-Kharj from Riyadh, even if we'd had to. If Saddam had decided to invade that week, we'd have been screwed.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-11-17 22:11|| 2014-11-17 22:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow, Mike. You were there for the whole decade's rain. In one week.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-11-17 22:17|| 2014-11-17 22:17|| Front Page Top

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