Who Says Beer Doesn’t Do Damage?

So I’ve had major plumbing emergency issues of late.  With the latest edition of California “Storm Watch” I came within 1/4 of an inch of having my living room flooded because water wasn’t draining in our patio right.

Turns out my patio storm drain was flat out busted due to yes – a beer can.  My plumber thinks there’s no way it could have traveled to where it was stuck and somebody must have been pissed off and did on purpose back in the day for some reason.  That was well before we lived here, but we have to deal with it.

Fortunately it doesn’t rain that much, but the water had always been able to drain somewhat through our neighbor’s drain which is positioned about 1 foot from our drain.  But their drain got completely clogged as well.  So there was nowhere for the water to go, but towards my living room.  It got to the point where I started bailing water like I was in a little boat that was being circled by sharks.  I bailed about 100 gallons of water in an hour from my patio and then fortunately the rain stopped and the water slowly started to lower.  Then I got some sandbags and called a plumber.

$1500 later I have a new drain.  This Bud’s for You.

As an aside I almost titled this post “What the Plumber found…” but realized where most people’s minds would go, but had to include it here somewhere.