#drainage

[abybweisse]

Ch210, Spoiler chapter part 3

Last part.

Theo explains there's a wind-pump/drainage windmill by the river, and he thinks this drain leads to the river.

Artie is first to start removing extra clothes, to make swimming easier. Then Mabel joins him by also removing her jacket.

But Oliver is too afraid to get into the water, as he apparently can't swim. He doesn't know what else to do but stay behind, sending the rest onward. But staff are quickly approaching, and they are armed.

Theo gets into the water and tries to coax Oliver in, but he's still refusing. Finny doesn't want to leave anyone else behind, so he lunges at Oliver to shove him into the water as he's also jumping in.

The staff members shoot, and one bullet hits Finny, in his left leg. So, now Finny has at least two gunshot wounds: left shoulder and left calf.

Some people have been suggesting (for a while now, actually) that Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao might show up in Norfolk on their way back to the final meetup point. If the kids can make it to the river or the windmill, it would be great if those two could show up. Together, they might be able to sabotage the wind-pump and flood the underground facilities, maybe even drowning the staff still down there. But for now that's just wishful thinking.

Finny is seriously injured, and they haven't even yet gone into the large drainage pipe. They are like fish in a barrel right now.

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #ch210 #spoilers #kuroshitsuji spoilers #kuro spoilers #black butler spoilers #theo #theodore #finny #finnian #artie #mabel #oliver #fol orphanage #orphanage #sewer #drainage #gunshot #injury #bleeding #ran mao #mey rin #thoughts #ideas #windmill #norfolk #part three #part 3 #mar 17 2024

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Responsibility for public health was now understood to be a task for government, not just for working-class women who – until then – had been the only ones concerned with the cleanliness of slum houses, the only ones asking for clean water and working drains.

One such working-class woman was Kitty Wilkinson, an Irish migrant in Liverpool who had been a cotton mill worker and a domestic servant. She opened up her laundry business to her poor neighbours for a penny a week, allowing them to use her boiler and bleach to disinfect their clothes during the 1832 cholera epidemic. She became known as the 'saint of the slums' and campaigned for public bathhouses for the poor.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quotes #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #responsibility #public health #government jobs #working class #cleanliness #slums #clean water #drainage #kitty wilkinson #irish #migrant #liverpool #cotton mill #domestic servant #laundry business #boiler #bleach #disinfecting #30s #1830s #19th century #cholera #saint of the slums #public bathhouse

[stillfuckingtired]

My stomach hurts and I feel nauseated and there’s random heartburn (even though I took my acid reflux meds today). Bad enough I’m definitely not getting to sleep anytime soon. What is going on, body? Is it the drainage? Stupid mucus not sitting well? Ugh.

#chronic illness #nausea #gastrointestinal issues #drainage #heartburn #acid reflux #chronic pain #disability #ouchies #no sleep #painsomnia #fibromyalgia #chronic fatigue #disabled

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

#bathtub vortex #drainage #fluid dynamics #physics #science

[thesilicontribesman]

Corbridge Roman Town, Corbridge, nr. Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland

#roman living #roman building #roman design #roman style #romans #roman #archaeology #stonework #drainage #roman empire #hadrians wall #roman architecture #ancient culture #ancient living #ancient craft #northumberland

[aceballcomics]

#art #comics #lgbtq #lgbtq artist #funnytumblr #jokes #xenogender #drainage

[dndsettingsinfo]

Sewage Drain [32×44] by Tactical Map

#tactical map #sewage #sewer #sewers #drain #drains #drainage #village #villages #eberron #lower #gross #map #maps #aquatic

[vxo]

And now, an entirely bizarre edition of Spooky Tales from the Transmitter Site:

The older of my two sites lies on a weird triangle of land bordered by a levee and a former railroad grade. On the levee side is a slough that's part of the Sacramento River Delta. At some point in its history, someone added a pump to help keep it from flooding.

No one knows who added it. No one knows when it was added. No one knows who pays the power bill for that meter.

It's simply

just

there.

One of the other engineers suggested to me that at some point in history, a former engineer used to do something to run and maintain it.

About three years ago one of my coworkers saw a crew doing repair work on it. He didn't know who they were.

They just.... were. Just as it just.... is.

But it's both forgotten and not forgotten. This tag suggests that someone fixed up the power to it but left it turned off pending verification that they wired it right. See, this has a three phase motor on the pump. If you mix up the wires to one, it will run, but backwards.

I think the pump (obscured completely by the pitch black water, sorry!) is a vertical impeller type. My suspicion is that if you were to run it backwards, you'd get next to no water flow and a lot of cavitation noise.

Out of curiosity (and desire to prevent the weird old thing from just being consumed forever by the stinky slowly rising water), I took a gamble and turned on its switch... and it very quietly and dutifully began yeeting water out on the other side of the levee.

And out of this rusty object too, I suppose.

I may never know the mysteries of this thing, but at least it looks like it'll help avoid flood damage.

#drainage #machinery #spooky woods #swamp

[inthecityofgoodabode]

January 2024: Fog, Birds & Glorious Green

Saturday's rainy, foggy walk:

It doesn't look like anything from here:

But this is the reality of melting snow & drizzly rain. I see one or two Wilson's Snipes almost every time I walk here this time of year. I've tried to take photos of the snipes on multiple occasions but the photos were all blurry sacks of suck. Your average Bigfoot photo is crystal clear in comparison. Snipes are fast, camouflaged & fly in a natural zigzag pattern. I imagine the only way I'll ever get a decent photo of one is if I find it dead on the ground:

First alien abduction of 2024. The only thing left was this poor bastard's hat on the driveway:

Bought a new bird feeder since the gray squirrels jacked the old one up & this warbler was the first one to try it out. Birds can be leery of new feeders because their dinosaur ancestors imparted to them the wisdom that all new things aren't necessarily good. After all, that meteorite was something new & nothing good:

With the freezing temperatures gone for awhile, we uncovered our cool season vegetables so they could enjoy some unfiltered light:

Brussels a'sprouting:

Not ready yet but this broccoli is getting there:

These two heads of cabbage are looking good:

#seen while walking #rain #fog #the wasteland #drainage #urban creek #snipe #wilson's snipe #alien abduction #i'm joking #There is enough evil assholery in this world without engaging in the delusion of an evil alien other #robin #american robin #downy woodpecker #bird feeder #warbler #dinosaurs #birds #wren #carolina wren #garden #gardening #backyard garden #vegetables #vegetable garden #cool season vegetables #brussel sprouts #cabbage #life in memphis

[thewaterboyplumbing]

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#drainage #plumbing #plumbing company

[abybweisse]

Ch210 (p3), The wind pump

They get to the end of the tunnel on the right.

At first I wondered why they saw the drain and thought it was a dead end until someone heard running water. I guess it's because the water in the drain doesn't move fast enough to make that sound. It could be the river nearby that they hear.

I'd previously blogged about the wind pumps, more commonly called drainage windmills. Norfolk has a lot of them because the land is low-lying and might otherwise be a bit swampy. There are at least four rivers that help to drain the county: Wensum, Yare, Bure, and Ouse. Apparently, these wind pumps draw water away from areas that the rivers can't drain directly... then dump that water into a nearby river.

Artie is first to prepare for the water, and he mentions the mistletoe (parasitic plant). Mabel quickly follows suit, even though she's scared, because she's determined to help the other kids.

But Oliver refuses to leave because he can't swim. Perhaps he's hoping the staff will accept an apology from him if he stays? They don't know what part he's played in their activities, so far, so he could lie to stay alive... a little longer.

Finny rushes at Oliver to take him into the water with him, as staff open fire (which Oliver maybe wasn't expecting so soon, without first being questioned).

And Finny takes a bullet to the left calf, or possibly the shin. He has a bullet wound to his left shoulder from before, so that's two major wounds that are about to end up in the water... which probably isn't too clean. The bleeding will be worse in the water, but that's the only thing that might help keep the wounds from getting too infected. Unless he has healing abilities gained from the drug tests that we still haven't learned about....

We know he's strong, and we know he's tough (endurance), but is there more to it? Can he withstand these kinds of injuries?

And what will happen now that they -- including Oliver -- are in the water?

I'd love for them to make it to the mill. I wonder how long it would take to flood the underground tunnels and chambers (and drown those staff members), if they sabotaged the wind pump.

I'd also love for Mey-Rin and Ran-Mao to show up, on their way to a final meetup point. We don't know the instructions they were given after they completed their missions -- none of them -- so... perhaps they might meet up with Finny (but without Snake) in Norfolk anyway?

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #ch210 #chapter release #chapter review #chapter analysis #fol orphanage #orphanage #finny #finnian #theo #theodore #artie #oliver #mabel #staff members #drainage #windmill #wind pump #norfolk #part three #part 3 #mar 18 2024

[tokillaking13]

hyperfixation n’ stuff

#twbb #there will be blood #eli sunday #daniel plainview #fanart #my art #DRAINAGE

[taiwantalk]

every year, taiwan goes through this. almost like an annual festival. lol. people just keep wanting to live in those mountainous landslide places similar to californians want to live in malibu or floridians want to live in miami, fire, flood, hurricane, well, taiwan gets typhoon season but has an incredible record of typhoon going around or reducing strength in passing through.

oh well, for sure, almost predictably, if taiwan gets hit hard by typhoon, then china usually would be nearly apocalyptic.

there is something that is not intuitive to people who do not live in taiwan. because taiwan is a very developed island country, taiwan does have a very robust flood and drainage infrastructure.

it is not possible to completely prevent runoffs, floods, or landslides because not only is taiwan an island, but that it's mountainous and easily traps running water from various regions. however, every year typhoons come and this happens, and then nearly by the next few days, the flood would be gone.

however, there are still room to improve such as the sewage system full of open sewage drains throughout taiwan. more and better water treatment systems.

#taiwantalk #typhoon #flood #drainage #landslide #infrastructure

[londiniumlundene]

Lost London: Walking the Covent Garden Drainage Ditches

Part 2: The Cock and Pye Ditch

Up until the 17th Century, St Giles-in-the-Fields was just a small group of houses in the grounds of a leprosy hospital; between these dwellings were marshy fields known, perhaps unimaginatively, as Marshland, surrounded by a rectangular drainage ditch. These fields were covered by the development known as Seven Dials in the 1690s, and the fields and ditch would in time take on the name of Cock and Pye – the origin of which will become clearer as the walk along this lost watercourse continues.

The route from Drury Lane to Seven Dials requires a walk through an unnamed and (at time of walking) well-enclosed alleyway, leading onto Shelton Street. My guidebook says a small gradient can be found on this road where the subterranean waters of the Cock and Pye flow towards the Bloomsbury Ditch, but this is somewhat difficult to detect.

At the junction of Shelton Street and Neal Street, my walk turned right, in order to follow the eastern edge of the Cock and Pye’s rectangular outline (the ditch also continues straight ahead, so the circuit could in theory be completed in either clockwise or anticlockwise fashion). Neal Street takes it name from Thomas Neale (forgetting the last “e”), the Stuart courtier who was responsible for the development of Seven Dials.

As Neal Street is fairly typical of the area – expensive shops and pricey bars, cafés, and restaurants – a diversion to the centre of Seven Dials is recommended. Here, the seven roads radiate out from a central column, which surprisingly only has six sundials; the central column and surrounding roundabout functions as the seventh. The original column was erected as part of the initial development, though was taken down in 1773; the story that it was pulled down by a mob looking for gold rumoured to be buried beneath it are just an urban legend. The current column is a replica installed in the 1980s.

Turning back to Neal Street, the route then turns left at Shaftesbury Avenue. It is hard to imagine that the surrounding streets here were once the infamous Rookery of St Giles, some of the worst slums in the country. During the 18th Century, at the height of the gin craze, the squalid conditions of the streets of St Giles inspired Hogarth’s etching Gin Lane. Nowadays the most prominent artwork on Shaftesbury Avenue is Drama Through the Ages, a frieze on the Odeon cinema, originally the Saville Theatre. Very few traces of the Cock and Pye Ditch are left, though a small grate at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Mercer Street reveals trickling water below.

The third side of the rectangle is completed by walking along West Street, apparently so named because it was the western boundary of the Cock and Pye fields (a convention not applied to the other three sides though). At the time of walking, the Ambassadors Theatre was also running a rather appropriately named play; its more famous neighbour, St Martins Theatre, has meanwhile been showing the same play, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, for 70 years.

We shall end this section of the walk where West Street meets Upper St Martin’s Lane. It was in this vicinity that the Cock and Pye Inn once stood, and gave its name to the surrounding fields and ditch. Some say that the inn gained its name from serving elaborate peacock pies, though more likely it was simply named after a cock and a magpie – at the time, spelt magpye.

#london #uk #england #walk #covent garden #seven dials #ditch #drainage #watercourse #river #stream #cock and pye #rectangular #st giles #drury lane #neal street #sundial #sundials #column #shaftesbury avenue #rookery #slums #gin craze #gin lane #art #cinema #theatre #theatres #agatha christie #the mousetrap

[emersonmanandnature]

July 5, 2023

#agriculture #barren #channel #curve #ditch #drainage #farming #drainage system dug in open field #photography #black and white #cjcorwinoriginal

[just-a-sad-science-clown]

Drainage

#geology 101 #geo 101 #geology 100 #geo 100 #earth science #earth #geo #rivers #drainage #drain #notes #chicken stratch #studyblr