Montreal sewer geyser tears apart car

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by Justin Delaney (RSS feed) on Jul 19th 2011 at 2:45PM

With a little bit of luck, I have lived my life hitherto in a relative bubble of innocence. Before today, I knew not the existence of sewer geysers. This terrifying video shot by a youtube user captures the intense eruption of a sewer geyser in Montreal, Canada. The force of the geyser blows open a manhole cover, lifts a car off the ground, and severely damages the vehicle. As the underground waste spills out into the road, the cameraman remains steady. He films as the eruption reaches disgusting new heights towards the video's end.


video at link
http://www.gadling.com/2011/07/19/montreal-sewer-geyser-tears-apart-car/

[Poll_Blind]

1. What the SHIT did I just see there?

I don't even understand what the hell I saw. It was like they were splitting the turd atom and I wasn't wearing goggles.

PB

[krispos42]

2. Ewwww...

[DianaForRussFeingold]

3. OMG!!!

What was that!:wow:

[uppityperson]

4. Had a small one outside a place I rented but nothing like this. Pretty shitty

[Igel]

5. We don't have those in Houston.

I guess we really do need to upgrade our infrastructure to bring it up to 21st century standards.

(On the other hand, I have seen a lot of water coming out of manhole covers in low-lying areas when there's heavy rain, so we undoubtedly have the potential for producing truly world-class sewer geysers.)

[Warpy]

6. Note to self: do not park with the car's wheel on top of a manhole during heavy rain

Honestly, the helpful hints you read on the net!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. not to burst your bubble...

but that is not a sewer...it is a storm water runoff. still impressive...

this is the best one i ever saw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcnH3pZJQrw

sP

[stevedeshazer]

8. Impressive! n/t

[XemaSab]

12. That person's life is teh suck

Not only do you wrap your truck around a manhole in the middle of the freeway, but when you get out to check the damage it happens again. :(

[kestrel91316]

9. NOT a sanitary sewer, folks, just a storm sewer. Calm down.

It's storm runoff from the streets, aka dirty rainwater. NOT SEWAGE.

[kickysnana]

10. I once saw a manhole cover flip 30 feet into the air from this...

I carefully went around manholes until they upgraded the storm sewers and separated them from the sanitary sewers. What is worse is this used to come up in peoples floor drains. Most people resorted to illegal one way valves to protect their basements from raw sewage and rain water. yuck.

[BoWanZi]

11. What are one way valves and why are they illegal? Just wondering.

[Confusious]

13. Allow water to flow only one way

into the sewer. As for why they are illegal, I can only guess, but I would figure that it doesn't allow pressure to escape from the sewers, causing damage further up or down the line.

[kickysnana]

14. It was a floor drain with a valve that did not allow waer to flow back...

They were illegal because the city was using people's basements as pressure relief to keep from exploding sewer pipes. Great plan.