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Originally Posted by matese  I saw on the news where ppl in their 20"s health nuts feel they are safe because they are health conscious, they were told they could still this
COVID , have no symptoms, not get sick but could still pass it on to ppl they come into contact with. I forget what state it was wants ppl that do not have to go out stay home, you were allowed to go out if you had to go to work, are a caregiver, watched children and other things of this nature. If ppl were just out and strolling about they would institute a new law and arrest those that were not following the stay at home policy. It's going to have to come down to that for ppl to understand what stay home means.
As careful as I have been, last Monday I had catastrophic flood in my house, I have been subjected to many strangers coming into my house to rid it of water, some floors and walls have to be removed and new installed, new installation put in, lots of plumbing to be done. When they leave I wipe everything down with alcohol. Since there are no hand sanitizers to be found I was using alcohol on baby wipes when I did have to go out and had to touch things, I also wore latex gloves. I had 2 bottles of alcohol and felt safe using that, "had" enough until this buying frenzy was over. I have used one bottle since the flooding and the contractors have not started the repairs.
I do have hydrogen peroxide to fall back on because I will use that last bottle of alcohol. Just ticks me off big time I was taking all precautions then this....... |
Last night after 9:20 PM, flushed the toilet and it absolutely flooded the hall bathroom and started running down the hall! Couldn't get the still-new turn-off to even move, let alone turn the water to the toilet tank off! Opened the top, tried grabbing the ball thing and pushing it down, displaced the water dispenser so that it was pouring water right over the tank edge onto the floor! Just about panicked, finally it stopped as I tried to replace things as they were, don't know why.
Angel neighbor couple and their oldest daughter came over when I called to see if they had a shop vac or knew of a quick way to get the 1+ standing water up from the floor, as I had piled ALL of my towels and many hand towels by the door and mounded them up to try to block/absorb water the bathroom under the door, ran out and placed more towels on other side. While Lu and her sweet daughter began wringing the towels out in the bathtub and resoaking them with free-standing water and Gabe ran back for his yard drain snake, I got all my emergency flashlights. I held the lights for him in the yard as he handforced his snake into my outside drainpipe and saw that when he removed the cap from my outside drain line to the sewer in the alley' the whole area had flooded with standing, muddy water.
Why is it my plumbing only goes haywire after 9:00 PM, especially during holidays, weekends and other horribly inconvenient or especially bad times!
Roto Rooter had a guy on the way when Gabe told me the city will come out 24/7 and clean out the drain pipe from the house to the alley as part of our water services, no extra charge. I had always paid through the nose for this type service through Roto Rooter over the years and couldn't believe it. Pete, another neighbor down the street, called to see what was going on, told me the same thing.
Called Roto Rooter, cancelled the call and called the City's
Water Dept. emergency number and almost within the hour my big drain had been cleared of roots by the city workers running their huge electrical snake! They arrived in two huge trucks, practically blocking our whole street.
By the time my neighbors and the workers left, the bathroom was dry, ready for cleaning and disinfecting and Lu and Jessica had gotten all the water up and had placed all the wet towels in my washing machine; the workers had cleaned up, relocked the back gate lock and left. Got out my checkbook, willing to write all of those amazing people who showed up to help me generous checks before they left and no one would take any money! In fact, Gabe told me they had a big box of masks and gloves and hand disinfectant and TP anytime I needed them to just ask and he'd be over with whatever, and asked if I had enough food, fresh produce, milk, medicines, etc. (He's a wonderful chef.) Said anytime I need anything, just call, we are neighbors and we always help each other! I was tearing up, thanking and rethanking them while trying to stay 6 ft. away!
Even though the toilets were all flushing normally last night, I was just too scared to trust the just-cleared yard drain and shower drain before bed to shower or wash the towels last night so, yuck, yuck, yuck, washed myself as best I could and waited until early this morning to do both when the shower and the washing machine drains both worked just fine, thank God. Oh that shower felt extra good. Towels, etc., all washed and dried now. Now time to wash my sheets, nightie things, etc., I slept in without my usual shower before bed. But was so tired and, excuse the pun, drained, I slept like a log. Got up and disinfected everything we all touched last night before I even had my coffee.
Just can't believe all the things that went wrong last night and today are back to normal again and am not owing a huge credit card bill for the after-hours plumbing! Needless to say, will be buying a few dinners and gifts for my precious neighbors and their 3 kids and lauding our Water Department workers on Twitter!