Posted on 01/10/2015 4:21:32 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A water main break Friday afternoon in Little Italy flooded streets and forced Case Western Reserve University to close early.
Cleveland Water officials are scrambling to fix the leak, which started at about 12:30 p.m. and closed East 120th between Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, Cleveland Water spokesman John Goersmeyer said.
Some residents reported flooding in basements, and low water pressure.
The break left about a foot of standing water on surrounding roads.
(Homes with 2 to 3 feet of water in their basements and zero degrees, no thanks.)
Pinging the Ohio list.
My beau is a Curb & Gutter man. The stories he has to tell about aging and failing infrastructure in our cities would make your hair stand on end.
I can’t beleive this stuff doesn’t happen every day. Well, it probably DOES - it’s just that everything is so WONDERFUL in 0bamaWorld that we don’t hear of it.
What happened to all those shovel-ready jobs, BTW? Plenty of work to do, on our underground water mains alone!
And don’t get me started on bridges... ;)
In Cleveland, it’s been one party (’Rat) rule for most of the last century.
Yet, somehow, the crumbling infrastructure due to decades of neglect will be Republicans’ fault.
Well, of course! ;)
Certain people stayed off Murray Hill.
Wait until it all freezes.
I just retired from running a small, 400 connection water supply company just South of Cleveland. Our mains are 60+ years old and look brand new. We’d sometimes get breaks during severe Winter weather, such as we’re having right now. Sometimes the main would be sitting on a rock, and the ground shifting in the cold would settle the main harder against the rock, and split the main. I’ve heard the Philadelphia had some of the old wooden mains until recently. My experience is that mains usually break due to outside forces, like weather, heavy traffic weight, and not so often due to age. But ya never know!
Understand the confusion given former Senator George V. Voinovich became Mayor of Cleveland following the angry elf Dennis! J. Kucinich's rein as "boy Mayor." Voinovich did have a "R" after his name.
Cheers,
OLA
Since WWII, there have been 2 Republican mayors out of 11.
I can’t find a reference for the last time there was a Republican on the city council. Been all Ds ever since I can remember.
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