Just checking in to see how everyone else is doing
18It’s been awhile since I’ve been on the meh site but things have been in a almost constant state of upheaval around here. First, our whole household came down with covid just days apart from one another. It wasn’t fun being at my house for sure.
Second, our sewer line backed up into our bathtubs and commodes last week. Our subdivision has an major problem, as the main sewage line has collapsed. Adding insult to injury, our cities utility company hired a private contractor to repair the sewer lines BUT when they were using a backhoe in neighbors yard, they touched an unsheathed electrical line laid on top of the sewer line.and melted the end of the backhoe. Consequently, they had to shut down working on repairing the sewer lines until the electric company shuts off the power to our area.
The contractor didn’t know we also had a sewage problem too but our daughter drove around the neighborhood and found someone who knew who the contractor was. She contacted the contractor who then had men out installing a temporary sewer flush out line at our house Friday so now the sewage isn’t in our house but standing in the hole in our backyard ! That’s not great but better than sewage backed up in our bathtubs and all over the bathroom floors in our home! The contractor discovered our electrical line also isn’t sheathed and it is in the hole full of sewage water. They can’t repair our sewer line either until our electrical company turns the power off to certain sections of the neighborhood. The electrical company announced they’d turn the power off Tuesday in announcement last Saturday then announced Sunday they cancelled the power outage scheduled for tomorrow…
We called our energy company and made an emergency ticket as we were told the electrical company was the hold up. I also contacted our councilwoman for our area and she then contacted the city’s utility director about the problem. A meeting is now set up for tomorrow to discuss this problem with the contractor, the energy company and the public utility director for our city. So at least maybe some decisions will be made and we can get this mess ( literally) taken care of.
On then last night our tankless hot water heater broke and the company shows on its website that the part ( control panel is out) is no longer made by Rheem for our tankless hot water heater. 
So how is everyone else doing ??
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Sounds like your life totally sucks right now. I hope they get the sewage mess fixed sooner rather than later, that the power isn’t off long enough to wreck all your food in the fridge/freezer and that it won’t break the bank to replace the hot water heater. PS Welcome back.
@Kidsandliz you are correct! Could be worse I know but I hate having raw sewage in my house and now in my backyard Hope you’re doing well ! Also cold showers brrr but it’s so hot outside, I’ll take cold water over no water any day.
@AttyVette That it could be worse doesn’t make this any better though…
@AttyVette @Kidsandliz
Sure it does…
Holy carp! I will send some of my cacti up there to start hugging people until they get everything fixed for you.
OHMYGAWD!!! What a nightmare! I’m so sorry - I hope this gets fixed but it sounds like it’s definitely not going to be a fast process.
Can you stay somewhere else for a few days?
@AttyVette @Kyeh And make the contractor pay for it!
@Kyeh well some neighbors are doing so but we are sticking it out here. Daughter and her children now live with us so it’s all hands on deck everyday getting homework done and then off to school. Lol I’m too old as all the things they have to do for staar testing here in Texas is crazy imo!
@AttyVette Oh - well, I hope you don’t have to endure the mess for too much longer!
Sounds like you’ve done everything you can to get the problem addressed. I hope your neighbors appreciate just how much your active response is working on their behalf as well. Our city had one of those inflate-in-place liners installed in the sewer under our street, and the fix is far from perfect.
What a mess, I’m sorry.
@connorbush wish I could upload pictures here on this site as this site doesn’t let me do so with my apple phone. Of course my iPad won’t charge anymore and I don’t own a computer so I can’t show how bad my yard truly is. Oh and there are 14 other families living like we are currently living here in our neighborhood. Aww the smell of raw sewage and the sight of flies ( a gazillion flies it seems ) flying around my backyard. Epic !
@AttyVette @connorbush You can do it with an Apple phone - mine is an iPhone 7 and it works for me!
@AttyVette @connorbush @Kyeh
You have to post in landscape or the picture icon doesn’t show on up on the screen
(Or the hyperlink or quote icon either)
Sometimes being an adult is no damn fun
My condolences on what’s going on in your community
I’m ok, thanks!
@AttyVette What a disaster! I hope it all gets resolved soon. I’ve been recovering from shoulder surgery since June, but having my dominant arm out of commission is nothing compared to your woes.
Try looking for your Rheem part on RepairClinic.com. They sell parts for a lot of appliances there and may still have it in stock. That site’s really helpful for diagnosing and fixing problems with appliances.
fucking hell. you really go all out when having problems.
i got married. then i photoshopped a lightsaber into the picture and now i’m not married anymore. kidding. i’m still married. for now.
@carl669 Hoping you are having fun adding to the fuck count. All pun intended.
Your wife seen what you did to that photo? It was a good photoshop job. I believed you had actually married someone who was willing to do that in the photo and was thinking that has to be one cool wife person.
@Kidsandliz she was actually cool about the Photoshop job. though I did get an eye roll.
but, most of the people I know still believe we’re actually holding a lightsaber.
@carl669 @Kidsandliz
I thought you were!
@carl669 @Kidsandliz @Kyeh
Well then ….
Fucking congrats!!!
@carl669
I suspect you will get those a lot from your kid as he becomes a teen and goes those those years and likely will also get a number of them from your wife too. Hahaha. Your kid was born into this (and likely shares the same “genetic flaw” although probably won’t admit it until older
) but your wife chose it. Just gently reminder her of that if she rolls her eyes balls so much they practically fall out of her eye sockets.
/giphy eyeball roll while rotflmao
@carl669 A bunch of giphy fails so I am leaving this one as it is the best of the lot.
@Kidsandliz wife and i have this short exchange nearly every week:
wife: you’re such a weirdo/dork/nerd
me: yeah, but you married me, so…
@carl669
@carl669 and that’s the least of what has been going on with us and our family:(
Yowza! That sux.
Way worse than the hip replacement I had 8 days ago… At least I scheduled that!
Glad no one got toasted when the backhoe hit the power line.
Update… got switched from a walker to a cane today on Day 10 post-op…
@chienfou glad you are doing better but wow that has to be painful
praying for you.
@AttyVette
It’s sore but not that bad. It’s crazy how fast the recovery time is now. I was up walking within 6 hours of surgery with the walker… Went home the same day… It was freaking outpatient surgery!
Jeebus. Did they build your neighborhood on top of an ancient burial ground or something? I hope things get better real soon.
My child was diagnosed with a life-long disease requiring medicine to live.
Then I found out a child of mine had been molested two years ago and we’re in the midst of going to trial (in a different state, where it happened) with the perpetrator, who avoided arrest for a month.
My kid’s school decided to cut bussing this year, so my kids need to be personally dropped off and picked up every day - which is just an inconvenience, but a year long one and difficult as I’m the only parent in the same county during school hours.
Not sure if I’d rather deal with my sh!t or your literal sh!t.
Thankfully your council and contractors are coming together to get a plan to fix it.
@mbersiam I’m so sorry you are dealing with all of that . I can’t go into details but we are dealing with other things that have been devastating to our family too. Praying for your family member and y’all too. That’s horrible just horrible
In recent years, I have won a battle with a minor cancer, lost a partner to a major one, found a different partner in someone I’d known for 30 years but whom I’d never before considered to be much more than an acquaintance, we each transitioned to the opposite gender at the same time, my daughter hauled me off to New Zealand for two weeks just as China was going into panic mode in Wuhan (early December 2019), we raised two litters of kittens in close succession (one momcat and three from not-her litter are still here), I had a pile of plastic surgery that’s taking for-fecking-ever for the last of the effects to settle out, and I’m still getting more of it lined up for next year.
If 2016-me had been told that this was all in the cards, he’d have said “Yeah, right.”
@werehatrack praying that things will get better for y’all too
Charlie Tuna chomped down on my finger Monday when I was trying to pill him.
Almost back to normal this morning. Yay, no trip to Urgent Care for me!
What a mess at your house. Geez…
@lisaviolet sorry to hear what happened to you
. Praying you’ll be ok.
@AttyVette Thanks. The swelling is gone and no more pain.
It looks like you have your work cut out for you. Wear gloves.
@AttyVette
Hope your situation has resolved, or at least improved, since you posted this originally.
@chienfou no it hasn’t unfortunately but at least no sewage inside the bathtubs and commodes aren’t running over anymore.
@AttyVette
not resolved but at least a little bit better…
BTW what are you guys doing about …ahem… toilet issues? Are you able to use the inside crapper and just let it run into the cesspool out back? Did you get a port-o-let? I think I would DEFINITELY be looking at my homeowners policy about temp lodgings at this point.
Good luck with all that, tho I know heading into the weekend will be stressful…
@chienfou yes at least we can use the commodes and also shower BUT it does end up in the cesspool hole in backyard they dug to get to the sewage line.
@AttyVette
Well… It could be worse, I guess!
@AttyVette asked me to post this because her phone is not cooperating and her ipad is dead.
This is what she is dealing with.
@Kidsandliz
YIKES… What a mess! It’s the very definition of a giant shitshow…
@Kidsandliz thanks ! Yeah my yard is a disaster !!
@AttyVette @chienfou @Kidsandliz I got some hole filler in my trunk if you need it.
@AttyVette @chienfou @yakkoTDI Your “hole filler” in your trunk will rot and collapse over time and then the bones will haunt her house. Of that I am sure.
There are a couple companies that diagnose/rebuild control boards that are no longer available. I had one done for an oven that just did not work anymore. Works fine now. But I think it was ~30% of the cost of replacing the whole thing. I need to dig through my email to find the one that I used.
Granted they could have just baked the board
@unksol thanks please send me any information when you find that email.
@AttyVette was these guys
https://www.partsimple.com/
They do a lot of stuff for a lot of brands, but I don’t see anywhere there do water heaters/Rheem stuff, sorry.
I’m just getting the generic repairclinic type stuff looking around. I assume it’s out of their normal 6 year warranty? You could always call them/there might be a board kicking around somewhere in the chain
@AttyVette company that owns them… Somehow their price list is on line for reparable stuff. Not sure they ment to do that.
http://corecentricsolutions.com/dynamicdata/RFR_Price_List.html
There’s only one GE water heater on the list