Ruing the waves
If we have the fifth largest economy in the world, why was there a torrent of human shit and filth cascading down my street during the storm this morning?
Posted on July 20th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
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Because you live in a by-election borough and the Brownies were out in force to celebrate?
Our lifts at work have been taken out of service because the roof has collapsed and for quite some time this afternoon it has been raining inside the lift shafts.
Because we have had 10 years of a Labour government?
Or, rather more pertinently, we have had decades and decades of a total lack of investment in our sewerage system.
DK
So the sun’s out in Brighton and the daytrippers are down from London to escape the rain again, then?
*BOOM BOOM*
For the same reason that the US, the largest economy in the world, did such a chronically bad job of coping with the storm surges in New Orleans … we can’t insulate ourselves entirely from natural forces.
I suppose I should be philosophical about it - at least all the dogshit seems to have been washed away.
As a Civil Engineer, I can confirm that nobody gives a shit about sewerage until unfortunate events like yours. Be glad that you have functioning sewerage most of the time. Many of the countries that I lived and worked in had none or dysfunctioning ones. Sewerage Planning generally doesn’t win elections.
It sounds like New Labour has worked out where you live and got hold of some sort of hose-equipped tanker. Get out while you can still wade, I’d say.
(You’d think it wouldn’t have taken so long for them to get your address right, but that would suggest you haven’t dealt with the DVLA or Inland Revenue recently.)