Water Main Breaks of 2024

[@DeadEyeDave]

Way back in nineteen seventy-something I was working as a draftsman, drawing utility maps for the Cal-American water company in Thousand Oaks, California. No one else was available when we got an emergency call about a busted fire hydrant. I was sent out with a valve handle (T-handle) and an address. I waded thru knee-deep water under a waterfall 50 feet high, trying to find the 6 inch round steel valve cover under all that water. Mind you this was my first and only time doing this, with no training whatsoever. After several soaking minutes of searching, I found the steel plate and tried to pry it open with the tool they had given me. Turns out it had been paved over recently and the asphalt hadn't been trimmed properly so the new paving was holding the cover down securely. A police officer and Emergency Medical Technician assisted with whatever tools they could muster and we finally got the cover off after about 30 minutes of agonizing effort. I shut the valve and stopped the geyser. The broken hydrant was never recovered. I told the dispatcher to never send me out again. I was a draftsman, not a field worker. Fughetaboutit.

[@theutilitydad1534]

That doesn’t sound fun! Luckily here is Washington we have dry barrel hydrants so when they get hit we don’t get a geyser!

[@malcolmtuck9000]

Yep, some of the water and gas valves including both services and mains do sometimes get buried under asphalt or concrete. Heck even a tracer wire wrapped around some gas meters get buried after they redo the pavement.

[@Манлетопия]

Trade Pogs

[@IronWarrior95]

4:41 This moment when you have a constipation and haven't been on toilet for 3 weeks and then the laxatives finally start to work and you are like:

[@theutilitydad1534]

Hahahahahaha

[@elixtido1448]

was Dante alright?

[@asymptoticsingularity9281]

he good

[@elitedata]

0:45 was hilariously funny 🤣

[@theutilitydad1534]

Yes it is!! 😂

[@TheLinkIsLost]

I’m dying 😂

[@josephastier7421]

He could have been killed instantly.

[@srtdetonator5272]

Cant believe not one of these crews didnt have flex tape

[@chadblechinger5746]

Str8 Taco Bell action @ 4:44

[@theutilitydad1534]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@juliogonzo2718]

If you hit a hydrant here it just breaks off and effs your car up cause the valve is under the frost line

[@theutilitydad1534]

There are two different styles of hydrants-wet barrel hydrants and dry barrel hydrants. Most places have dry barrel which means there isn’t any water in the stem of the hydrant. There is a foot valve that opens as you spin the operating but on top.

[@jerryrigsit5400]

There was a massive water main failure in Houston, TX in 2021 I think the exceeded all of these.

[@theutilitydad1534]

Its crazy how destructive water can be

[@gunga452]

who uses corded drills on water mains

[@applenumba21]

Our tap machine uses a drill to spin it

[@MrNingawarrior]

Still cranking on our tap machine with a ratchet and 3/4 inch socket. True Cut Machine. She’s a bitch with a dull bit.

[@theutilitydad1534]

We have to hand crank for our 2” taps

[@neonhomer]

Called "hot tapping:

[@timgranata7033]

Surprised there is no taco bell comment for 4:41...

[@NovaxLova]

Was the first man alright? 😢

[@GerstBladeworks]

Damn the one at 2:20 has some serious pressure. How can he even see what he is doing?!

[@theutilitydad1534]

Some times you just have to close your eyes and hope you can get it to shut down

[@LaShYz1]

He doesn't need to. Felt valve key go on head of valve off you go

[@joeschlotthauer840]

1:05 is usually Swift...

[@freddyfreddy42]

I’m about to start a job like this hope I like 👍 it

[@freddyfreddy42]

Horrible

[@ocsrc]

0:15 DON'T TOUCH THAT !!!!!!!!

[@theutilitydad1534]

hahahaha

[@NithinJune]

2:00 bruh open your snaps

[@theutilitydad1534]

For real 😂😂

[@garymericano]

Why does this say of 2024?

[@nothinglastsforever22]

Like fire,dont mess with water.

[@theutilitydad1534]

Very True

[@midnyte6195]

Something like that happened in rancho San Diego flooding some homes,my friends included 😛but not to bad tho

[@theutilitydad1534]

That doesn't sound fun!

[@NOTINTERCEPTER01]

Free showers and car washes lol.

[@theutilitydad1534]

😂😂😂😂

[@NOTINTERCEPTER01]

@@theutilitydad1534 it was coming sorry about the worse joke.

[@michaelshuey9670]

Working on just about any plumbing a sucks

[@theutilitydad1534]

Can be really frustrating at times

[@midnyte6195]

What the fudge???😱

[@hanshipeng]

Eww

[@wowdanalise]

What do you know, a black man broke the water main.

[@DeadEyeDave]

Stop being a racist prick.

[@theutilitydad1534]

As Joe Biden would say C'mon Man

[@Thebrileybrothers]

What do you know, a 9 year old kids being racist on the internet

[@wowdanalise]

Look, KZbin deleted all the comments supporting mine. Astroturfed internet!