Originally published at: Florida woman clogs stormwater pipe with concrete, flooding neighborhood - Boing Boing
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This is the backstory for how a once-civil engineer was pushed to the brink and became the brooding antihero that our drainage systems deserve.
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Someone obviously does not know what an easement is and why nobody asked for her “permission”.
An expensive lesson for her. She also sounds like the type who wasn’t very popular in the neighborhood before this incident.
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Her lawyer firing her as a client speaks volumes as to how unpleasant she must be.
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How long has this person lived in Florida? Does she not understand why there are all those gullies and vacant lots that act as storm reservoirs?
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Everyone’s and engineer, until something goes wrong.
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People use the bathroom everyday, but don’t understand how it works, or what to do when it’s not working, so I guess I’m not surprised.
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has this been fixed, or is it going to play a role in Milton?
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The old magic 8-ball says, “signs point to yes!”
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Holy cow, here are photos of a crew with a cement truck filling holes in her yard!
I made up a story loosely based on what the Orlando Sentinel article says. The HOA owns the pipe that was already broken, but only flooding Goglas’s yard. She went to HOA about getting it fixed and they ignored her. She asked her neighbors to go to the HOA meetings to back her up about getting the pipe fixed before it because a bigger problem and they ignored her. She made it everyone’s problem sooner rather than later when she should have sued the HOA.
Article was posted yesterday. County crews were authorized to go in and fix it about a week ago, but I’ll bet they’ll wait since Goglas has actively been working on fixing it (or at least got a permit).
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Part of what’s going on here is that the county isn’t actually responsible for the storm drains in this neighborhood. Apparently this particular storm drain is owned by, and is the responsibility of, the neighborhood itself. So I suspect the original problem, which was a leak, wasn’t getting fixed because of a lot of finger pointing and buck passing. Even now, the county is making the woman make the arrangements to make the required repairs, which is stupid. She’s clearly not capable of doing that correctly, or they wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with. Have the county fix it and send her the bill, and transfer ownership of that storm drain system to the county, where it belongs. Infrastructure shouldn’t be privately owned.
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A thousand times this! But for a not-insignificant portion of the populace, that is in fact a desired outcome. Leopards, meet faces. Again.
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Seems to be a very common Florida problem.
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She needs to pipe down!
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Eh, it’ll all come out in the wash!
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Mmmmm, space mutiny. (just spent 10 minutes finding the right MST3k episode)
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I’m sorry about the 10 minutes of your time, but I have zero idea what that reference was.
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Sometimes infrastructure belongs to a HOA or a land owner (a small private cul-de-sac that owns the road and such.) In those cases, fine, until no one takes responsibility for a problem and it gets out of hand and bothers the neighbors.
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Yes, I am aware of that. That is the case here, which I pointed out. I’m saying it shouldn’t be that way, mostly because of the problems we’re seeing illustrated in this case.
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