In a message dated 5/4/2007 7:52:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The NW corner storm drain inlet at 45 and Chester is missing one of its too covers. I called 911 and UCD about 1/2 hour ago. I put a 20 gallon blue recycling bin in the hole so no drunken trustafrain farmacy student falls in an sues the City. Calling 911 and UCD are a lot less effective than Lew's "patch" of blocking the hole with something on a temporary basis until the Water Dept comes. Depending on the size and location -- a trash can, a 5-gallon paint or joint compound bucket, some orange traffic markers, a sawhorse, an old table or tipped-over chair from the basement, etc. Be creative. It's true that this is the Water Dept's responsibility. But surely we can do things for ourselves to avert a possible disaster while wr're waiting for someone to save us. What do people do when the zipper on their pants fails? Call Wal-Mart and wait for them to send out a tailor or a new pair of pants ... or find a bobby, diaper, or some other kind of pin to hold the sides together until they get home? (Remind me some time to tell you the story about the time the seam in my pants split when I was at a business meeting and I repaired it with contact cement.) Always at your service & ready for a dialog, Al Krigman -- 36-year local resident, housing provider, curmudgeon, and all-around crank, ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
