My home’s greywater drains into the estate’s common drainage,... which eventually flows into a nearby river. Anticipating that the drainage could harbor all sorts of crawlies, we installed an in line non return valve. This ensures one way flow of greywater out of the house and prevents anything from the drainage from entering, keeping snakes, rodents, and roaches out of the plumbing. The system is a first in a layered defence we installed to make the house roaches, rats and crawlies proof. One day I will share more.show more

Earlier today, we received a report that a woman... identified as Mrs. McCarthy, of No. 56 Adaranijo Street, Pedro, Shomolu, allegedly encouraged her child to dispose of refuse into a covered drainage channel. Following the report, our enforcement officers promptly carried out an investigation, which led to her arrest for violating the State’s environmental laws. We expect every resident to act responsibly and to educate their children on the importance of protecting public infrastructure, particularly drainage systems. Encouraging acts that contribute to blocked drains and environmental degradation is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. A clean, safe, and flood-resilient environment is a shared responsibility. We urge all residents to dispose of waste properly and support the collective effort to keep Lagos clean. #ZeroToleranceLagosshow more

If you’re planning a garden #pond, it’s worth trying... to locate it close to the house so that you can run roof drainage into it. And remember to keep a bit of pond liner for the short channel from downpipe to pond. My pond here is lined and any excess spills over into a soakaway.show more

🌊🌧 #MumbaiRains #floods: Why was flooding so severe in... #Vasai, #Virar & #Nalasopara this time? 🌧️ The rainfall was exceptional across the entire region. Both Vasai-Virar and its surrounding river catchments witnessed very heavy to extremely heavy rains. However, the widespread flooding wasn't caused by rainfall over Vasai-Virar alone, it was the result of multiple factors occurring simultaneously, with enormous upstream river discharge, tidal locking and urban drainage systems struggling to cope with such unprecedented volumes of water. The Ulhas River, originating near Lonavala, received extraordinary inflows after its upper catchment recorded around 1569 mm of rainfall in just 3 days. Torrential rain across the Ulhas Valley, Pune Ghats and Thane interiors sent enormous volumes of water into Vasai Creek.🌊🏞 At the same time, intense rainfall over the Nashik Ghats ⛰️, Igatpuri, Trimbakeshwar, Shahapur and Palghar swelled the Vaitarna River, which drains into the sea just north of Virar. The Tungareshwar ranges ⛰️ also received torrential rain, with numerous streams and nallas adding further runoff into the Vasai-Virar drainage network. Meanwhile, Vasai, Virar and Nalasopara themselves were experiencing torrential rainfall of about 600-700mm in last 3 days, generating massive local runoff. The region was effectively jammed from both sides. Massive upstream river discharge coincided with high tides 🌊, also during Monsoon the seas remain already rough slowing the outflow into the Arabian Sea and creating a backwater effect that prevented creeks and stormwater drains from emptying efficiently. Such an extraordinary volume of water would have stressed any drainage system. However, rapid urbanisation, shrinking wetlands and mangroves, encroachment of natural drainage channels and increasing concretisation have significantly reduced the region's natural capacity to store and drain floodwater, making the impacts even more severe. This event was a classic example of record-breaking rainfall across multiple river basins, intense local rain, tidal locking and urban infrastructure struggling to cope with an unprecedented volume of water. Today, inflows into the river systems 🌊 remain high, and several areas may continue to experience waterlogging and flooding. However, with rainfall expected to gradually reduce from now, river levels should slowly begin to recede as the excess water drains into the sea. Even so, the impacts of this exceptional rainfall event are likely to persist for the next few days, especially in low-lying areas, until the entire drainage system returns to normal. 🌧️ #KokanRains #PalgharRains #ThaneRains Video credits: varun mundra & Vasai Virar Updateshow more

This is on the Ohio River in Cincinnati near... Route 8 You see the color of this water being dumped into the Ohio River? It’s pink…. It’s coming out of the Newport Pumping Station The City sometimes injects colored dye into drains and sewer to watch where it emerges to map flows and or study river dispersion This could be that, or this could be something else being dumps directly into the Ohio River…. The EPA should be checking this out to verifyshow more

Of all the changes to Survival in Midnight, I... think Boomstick is the one that confuses me the most. We're leaning into the fantasy of Rexxar and the Sentinels with... a shotgun?? It's such an odd replacement for Fury of the Eagle, which fits the vibes of the whole spec way more.show more

An update for everyone who is not in our... Discord... Obviously we are still early in development, and our team has been working hard to release updates for everyone to see. We have a peak at the terrain, which is this picture is based of the North Dakota drift prairie, Great care, time and effort was put into the terrain to create smooth rolling hills, the road network in this region will be challenging, just as it is in real life. From Will The current state of the TIV2 model, which will include a lot more in depth details, From Jlkillen03 The stages of damage to a Blender made house, From Kunahic And how texturing will be used for assets like the interiors! From BSPshow more

We MAXED OUT! ggs to all the trainers I... got to fight along the way. Tapped into the power of non-cringe CP and rode Rochambeau to the finish line. s/o to all my inspirations, including Jonkins and SpeedyChief. Earliest Legend in the world potentially?show more

Flipping houses, or rehab and resell, is a game... that seems to be the craze these days. People with little (myself) or tons of money think they can buy a dump of a house, shine it up, and make $100,000 without a problem. So, I gave it a try, putting my proverbial chips in the middle and going all in. Renovated it in 63 days. New roof, HVAC system, electrical panel, kitchen, bathroom, doors, trim, flooring and paint. I listed it, and then it just sat—hours, days, weeks, months — costing me $100 per day in holding costs. We adjusted the price, staged furniture, and reshot photos, but it sat, but why? The basement was wet, which is the kiss of death in real estate, I have learned. As a GC, I have access to a network of subcontractors and skill sets that many people don't, though that doesn't mean repairs are free. After spending $60,000 in renovations, $14,000 in closing costs, and $32,000 in holding costs I was taking a loss on selling this house. Then, I had to put another $15,000 into it to stop water from entering the basement. It is what it is. The house is now under contract, and we feel good about things, which is a distraction from the other house I bought in the middle of all of this until my guy sent me this video yesterday as he was leaving….show more

It doesn’t matter what material you build your house... from, when a fire, fueled by high winds hits, it’s not being saved. This is from a “small” recent fire in Gatlinburg area that got close to a house I owned. Took out quite a few homes. The wind just carries the sparks everywhere and often the fires start at the roof level (not the ground or side of the house). Once the roof area is hit, it’s all over. The fire will burn the house from the inside out. And it doesn’t matter if it’s a metal roof…think of all the wood components that metal roof attaches to and the eaves, soffits, etc. Just one spark can start a fire. When the wind is blowing at 60-80 mph gusts, you’re getting millions of sparks. The fires also get into the tree tops (especially of pine) and then balls of fire can also start raining down in clumps onto houses below as well. ICF, poured walls, concrete block….all irrelevant when you have a massive fire coming your way.show more

$E pure sublime awareness and understanding of all knowledge... and everything and anything all at once through consciousness expansion we are all connected with one another as the shared consciousness from the cosmic source when the distinction between the objective and the subjective dissolves through non-ego identification and non-being that’s how we become one with the absolute flow and dao is-ness of all things to become one and understand the totality of it all science is spirituality spirituality is science abundance is more than the material world the material world is an illusion enlightenmentshow more

My brother lives in Germany. Today, he sent me... this video from Germany. He showed drainage water in Germany and how clean it is, you can’t even differentiate between drainage water and clean water. He further said something in his next message on WA that broke me. He said that non-drinkable drainage water in Germany is cleaner than the drinkable water in Indore and most parts of India. India is doomed 💔show more

Hard to put into words what happened yesterday. I... had zero awareness of the car that nearly brushed us on the right. In a fraction of a second it moved us from the middle lane into the left lane. My wife and I were completely speechless. We’re both safe because of that reaction. If we had stayed in the lane, things could have gone very differently. This is the kind of moment that makes you trust the system.show more

sorry mom, a love letter to the growth of... mother and daughter to woman and woman, is OUT in the world and i couldn’t be more proud to share this song with you. it was one of the first songs i wrote for this album, alongside my 4 dear brilliant magical friends and collaborators (who i had the honor of making all of patterns with), and we hope you love it.show more