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This is a brilliant story. I wonder how other infrastructure coped with the outage (water supply network and sewers). Living in a dormitory in Russia, we had ou
by xentronium 14y ago
This is a brilliant story. I wonder how other infrastructure coped with the outage (water supply network and sewers). Living in a dormitory in Russia, we had outages in water supply periodically (once it lasted for whole two weeks) and that quickly translated into a horrible mess of insanitary.
Also loved the little episode with bikers, as I'm fascinated with their craft. Hope there is a going to be a followup about them.
- maxerickson 14y agoSystems that relied on pumping for pressure ended up under boil water advisories. Detroit, Cleveland, others. I think water pressure was mostly restored 3 or 4 days in though.
- pyre 14y agoThe tap water in Detroit never tasted the same afterwards, though no one else in my family felt the same way. I felt like I could taste and sometimes smell chlorine. Even the last time I visited Detroit (years later, and in a completely different part of the surrounding area).
- jacquesm 14y agoYou can get sensitized to Chlorine. (and to lots of other stuff as well).
- pyre 14y agoThe Detroit water system completely lost pressure. My assumption was that they upped the chlorine content to compensate for possible contamination in the system. They probably never reduced the concentration (either by design or by accident).