Friday, September 9, 2022

Catastrophe Averted

 


It started off well, very well, totally according to plan. Roll into Dallas, check on Ma LSP's property while she's on vacation in the Old Country and make sure everything's sound for her arrival. Simple, elegant, achievable. What a great plan. Then everything fell to pieces.

First off, where's my laptop? Not in the overnight duffle, not in the rig.  No, it was sitting safe and sound in the kitchen of the Compound and useless, even with modern tech, to me in the 'Sprawl. Fail. Attention to detail, LSP, and what about personal admin? Double fail.


You Little Gusher

But no big deal, work from your cell phone, such is progress. Fine, until the next day when it was time to mow the overgrown lawn. "What's this?" I thought over the hum of Ma's nifty electric mower, "Why is the ground so wet, rain?"

Wet as in fixing to become marshland. Hunh. Then lo and behold, not rain but a mini gusher by the pecan tree. I stared at it, Bloody Mary in hand, "It's only a small gusher, maybe we can leave it alone." No. Error. Little gusher became big gusher and the yard began to flood. So I poured a stiff one, got the water turned off to house and got on the line to plumbers.


Problem

They/he came out yesterday and got the job done, fixing a split water line with Sharkbite fittings and capping off a redundant sprinkler system in the process. Good work Tribeca, prompt, personable and at a reasonable cost. Give 'em a shot if you need emergency plumbing in DFW.


Solution

Net result? Water restored to the house and catastrophe averted. Thank God for that, Ma LSP can return home to a place that isn't flooded and has running water. Result. My carefully constructed plan? Shot to hell but you know what they say, improvise, adapt, overcome. Problem? Solution.

Cheers,

LSP

12 comments:

  1. Shark Bite fittings…simple, reliable, and easy-peasy when these sorts of things occur. Cost a bit more but next to zero on the labor side. Good you saw the soppy leak spot.

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  2. That water line sure is close to the surface. ?

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  3. Glad all is well, Parson.
    You all be safe and God bless.

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  4. When I lived in Bryan, roughly halfway to Houston from DFW, some of the municipal water lines were so shallowly buried that in the summer, the cold-water tap would give warm water.

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  5. Bit of a nightmare, Paul, but I think we caught it.

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  6. Yeah it was, Kid, and the pipes weren't to code. probably needs a total overhaul but for now, a patch.

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  7. Ah, good old Bryan, Wild.

    We get that warm water thing here too, and in Dallas.

    Shoddy workmanship.

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  8. If you hadn't been there - and been vigilant, LSPMOM's return would have been unpleasant for her.

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  9. Durn, you get off easy in TX. In MI we dig down 4 ft, better 5 ft underground and pray we never get a week of -40F even then. Had it happen once in the last 40 years, but it can happen.

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  10. Yes, LL, what a disaster! As it is, averted. Off to check on the place tomorrow.

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  11. Ah, Terrapod, it does get cold up North, no doubt about it.

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