6/25/2010

I wake up late, close to afternoon. I see someone I know in my home with a bag of chips. He sneaks around and says hello as if nothing is wrong. He is a neighbor. He talks to me about pipes all day long. He loves the plumbing work. I am retired from plumbing but I still have some knowledge of that area of interest. He wants to go to Bakers City to purchase a new pipe that is very rare. The city is 60 miles away and I dislike driving. I end up being convinced to go. The journey begins as I begin to drive. My neighbor is in the car with me and we drive to Bakers City. He will also buy me a souvenir. Possibly a silver pipe for the trouble. Long story short, we returned and it did go well. My neighbor got his rare pipe and he bought me a silver pipe. Plus we found a wrench for very cheap. The day is not over untill it is over. Sometimes that can be bad.

I was surprised that the day got better. .

Pipe News

BAHHH! I turns out that the water system throughout the entire town had to be turned off! Everyone was out of H20. It took all day for the Pipers to fix the main valve and the other pipes. I was obliged to help in the process. What might happen if this unnoticed system was off for an entire year??

As a final note the piping went patching-ly. The water system is working again.

8 Days Later

Maybe I should post an update? It has been six days since I last posted and well, very few interesting events have happened. The pipes at the old pipe plant have all been inspected. During one of the inspections a pipe cracked and burst. It was one of the pipes that was in for the water pressure. This may take an entire week for fix! The whole town is in a stirrer about the pipe plant. The main valve is still under investigation. Bah!

Rain Rain Rainy Part III & Blog

Well! An update on the pipes is in! The police arrived at the scene within minuets. I was asked several questions by the police chief. It turns out that the water supply in the city had drastically gone down after the burst. Our pipe system here is very complex, I don't know what to expect. How the main pipe valve burst is currently under investigation. I think it went into critical and the pressure made it burst.

I am also reading more about this here blog system. I found this blog: the real blogger status has some informing information about this here blog system...Arh! Google friends? If anyone is reading this you may see a few changes "here and there". So much to read! Bahh!

Rain Rain Rany Part II

Water indeed! I was very surprised to see how much water the place lost. As I walked out my front door with the tape I was greeted with a gust of wind and the wetness of rail. Then I started to walk towards my old work place. Ben Ricgz (or known as B.R.) greeted me when I arrived at
the pipe plant. He said, "Go straight down to the basement, the valve room. Red door at the end of the hall". I rushed down the stairs and quickly walked towards the red door at the end of the hall, I knew where the room was he didn't have to tell me again!
When I opened the great red door J.R. was standing there with a huge tool in his hand (I don't know what it was). After we talked about what happened we then took the scarf tape I had brought and taped up the valve. That took some thirty minuets!

Here is what we "think" happened: All of the rain water filled up the drain pipes all across town. It was too much water and the main valve went into M1K mode and still could not hold it. M1K is critical. So then it just burst because of all the pressure. But then again an odd looking crack is on the main valve. Why is it there? Is it because I have never seen this before? I have worked here for over ten years and this has never happened before!

Rain Rain Rainy

Ah! Too much rain today. My old work place called and they needed some help! That is the topic of my post.

Today I got a call from Jay Arr, (sometimes J.R. for short). He told me that the big valve pipe has burst and he needs me to give him some more scarf tape. See I use to work down in the pipes and it has been exactly one year since I left work. I took a case of scarf tape as a going away present (very usefull indeeed).Well, this morning our little town had an overflowing amount of rain and it turns out that the pipes could not hold it. The valve pipe burst? That is the one pipe below that can hold almost anything! Anyway I must go down to the pipes and help J.R. tape that thing up! ---Until next time.