House blasted by 3,000 gallons of sewage (North Carolina)

Kansas City Star ^ | April 21, 2006 | Associated Press

[Graybeard58]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Utility workers trying to blast out a grease clog from a sewer line forced 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a couple's home, forcing them to abandon their house while hoping that the city makes good on a promise to clean up and repair the damage.

Mac and Meg McCormick say city leaders have also promised to pay for their stay in a hotel until the repairs are complete. The couple doesn't have any of the agreement in writing, and city officials have declined to discuss the case because it's ongoing.

"We feel we have no choice but to put our trust and faith in the hands of the city," Meg McCormick said this week as movers hauled damaged furniture from her house. "And I'll be honest, that's a little scary."

Scott Denham, the risk manager for Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, declined to discuss the details of the sewage backup, but did say, "There's no question of the severity of this event."

City officials don't even know how much the repairs and cleanup will cost, Denham said. Meg McCormick said she has received estimates of $75,000 to $150,000. The house has a tax value of $101,300.

[satchmodog9]

crap, that's awful

[GSlob]

Ages ago there was a somewhat similar case in what was then USSR. A jilted ex-boyfriend drove a septic tank truck to the house where his ex was celebrating her wedding - and at night pumped all the tank contents into the newlyweds' window. IIRC from the newspaper accounts, he got a few years for "aggravated hooliganism".

[sully777]

Like Rodriquez sez, "Chit Happens"

[Zeppo]

I had a miniature version of that disaster hit last week - I used a !@#$%&*! contraption called the "Kleer Drain" which uses a pressurized CO2 cannister to blast through a clogged sink drain pipe... You guessed it, crap all over the bathroom (floor, walls, ceiling, door)... Took days to clean up...

[sully777]

Poopy ping

[Global2010]

Pics Please....

[martin_fierro]

WTFIIWNC Ping

[EveningStar]

Good grief!

[F.J. Mitchell]

YUK! That makes one long for a picture of Helen Thomas.

[Miss Behave]

That's a sh!tload of crap...or is it a crapload of sh!t?

It's a lotta poopy.

"I got the poopies on me. Dang, how much is in there? When's it gonna stop? You, over there, show me your boobies."*

*David Spade--Joe Dirt

[SouthernFreebird]

forced 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a couple's home,

Ok I'd want a whole new house... that's just too much crap to wash off.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I hope that couple hires a lawyer and gets there " Promised " repairs in writing and notarized.
The least the city could do is condemn the house and build a new house little farther down the road from that sewage swamp.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

And everyone says " EEEEEEEEWWWWUUUUUUU "

[battlegearboat]

Meg and Mac

under spew attack

order room service

[Experiment 6-2-6]

WTFIIWNC Ping

Ahem..

This IS a family forum...

[ansel12]

I've seen this a couple of times, the house can fill for several inches and the doors to the outside need to be opened.

I've never seen the after effects, so I don't how much restoration is needed to make the house inhabitable.

[starbase]

A couple in North Carolina
Thought that life couldn't be fina
Then one day a spew
Made them say Eeew
Now they recline in hotel reclinas

[Miss Behave]

And up through the ground come a bubblin' crude. Turds, that is. Brown butt-stuff, North Carolina caramels.

WEEEEE DOUGHgies.

[sully777]