Now, consider Diglet.
It’s the Mystery Flesh Pit of Pokemon.
I positively will not!
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TRIO TRIO TRIO
They gotta reach the mains, which need to be well below the frost line. Watermain breaks are common enough from tree root and age damage, they gotta prevent them freezing as much as possible too.
Would you prefer it if all those high pressure water pumps were directly underneath the ground, one shovel away?
Why are they blocking someone’s sidewalk
Note: I realize the tone of my writing could sound judgemental, but I’m just trying to be informative and answer the question above ♥️
Major utility/roadwork is being done. It’s not just the sidewalk that’s affected but also at least a lane of roadway. Likely the driveway to the road has a temporary gravel apron. Since this sidewalk has steps there’s no need for temporary ADA accommodations, which the homeowner would have negotiated with the local governing body before construction began. So if they need to walk somewhere they either walk in the grass or cross the road to walk in that sidewalk, if it exists. You can see the sidewalk has been torn up along with the asphalt
There should be more and better pedestrian access in the burbs. That being said, improvements happen in public easement, and it’s not always convenient. For anyone
Oh. I wasn’t giving you a hard time. I was just thinking stepping out in the morning to walk my dog and seeing that. WTF?
It’s nice you took it so earnestly to be helpful, but I think you got wooshed.
No idea if you were wooshed but personally, I always appreciate an informative answer like yours. Thank you.
Revenge.
Looks like a good harvest this year.
Uhhh… Take into account that they are all connected to a pipe network, so they are actually much much larger, they are a city wide grid.
So what happens if we open all fire hydrants at the same time
The pressure in the pipes probably goes down significantly before wherever the water is stored gets empty, in areas that have pumps for it they would probably not be able to keep up at all, wich means that the flow would be super slow as well.
It’s basically a mushroom. The hydrants are the fruit of the water network.
Water grid is mycelium lol
So we live on top of a hydrant hydra?
Basically
Hydrants are the fruiting bodies of the water-supply mycelium.
Uh, what’s wrong with long hydrants? I don’t know about you, but I appreciate that my hydrant keeps working in the winter and doesn’t get punctured when I’m digging to replace my sprinkler piping.
Then you probably don’t want to learn about Easter Island either.
It depends if you live where the ground freezes or not.
Southern hydrants are normal length.
This is not your best work.
The fire hydrant stops at the red paint. You can see where it bolts to the water main. The rest of the piping is the city water system.
Sorry, but that is wrong, the hydrant is that long so the valve can be below the frost line, otherwise it would freeze in the winter. The length depends on how deep the frost line is in your area. Here are some for https://www.muellercompany.com/water-works/hydrants/fire-hydrants
It looks like you’re right for at least a couple of those examples. That’s cool, I learned something today. So what’s up with the bolts at the base? I guess the valve part slides into the main pipe so they can easily replace it when needed?
They are universal. You ca. either have the valve right there in fair weather places, or you use extensions to make it below a 2’ 4’ or 8’ frost line.
I’d imagine it also makes repairs easier. Say a car hits a fire hydrant. It’s really only going to damage the part above ground. Having that part bolted on means you don’t have to dig out and replace the entire thing.
And yet the phrase, “That’s just the tip of the fire hydrant,” never really caught on :(
They’re the Digletts of civil engineering.
I can’t believe they amputated that diglets fingers
What did they think, that hydrants just sat atop their own private little geysers, or some shit? Maybe the hydrants just teleport water to their location when activated? What do they think the water coming out of the faucets go through? Fucking baffling.
emmy is not so very bright but she made an effort with her profile picture. Someone teach her to read so she can enjoy all those sweet books she’s missing out from
What tells you she can’t read? Just because she says she can tread?
