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moldspace · 8 months
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a mural from this month! the theme was keeping our watersheds clean - i included some local amphibians as water quality ambassadors
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crumb · 9 months
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Los Angeles Storm Drain (1973)
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ziggy-starpup · 1 year
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I just feel some kinda special way about being underground, immersed in a world so few get to see. The sound of the running water echoing.. the tricks your mind plays when dripping noises turn into anything else, the PITCH blackness when you turn off your flashlight. The thump-thump of cars running over manhole covers. The smell of moss and rainwater and decaying leaves. The age-old graffiti worn away by the water. The knowledge that the chances of me running into someone else down there are paper thin. The thrill of not knowing what buildings or roads I'm under until I find a gutterbox I can look out of to see if I can figure it out. Ugh. Everything about it is so incredible. I need to go in more drains this summer for sure.
It's also just so cool how you never know what you'll run into down there... Junctions and drain features are so unique, particular to the region, the materials available, the people involved in constructing them, revisions made over the years... Every drain is so unique and has so many stories to tell
And even beyond that... The relationship they have to the surface. Without the stormwater system in any city, the city wouldn't exist. Along with electrical, gas, and water lines, they make up the physiology of a city, the life that lies under the surface, and there's a certain romance in that. Especially because of how little they're thought about... They just quietly do their job, supporting every life that goes on above them, content to be unnoticed. And I think that just makes it all the more special when someone takes the time to care
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heliosharbour · 2 months
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I like to think Leo enjoys hanguing out in storm drains when he's depressed. Sage meanwhile doesn't like hanguing out in storm drains under any mood, but he's a bro.
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pup-idlewyld · 8 months
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STORM DRAINS!!!!
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dougielombax · 5 months
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We’ve decided to store the monthly payroll for our employees at the bottom of a storm drain.
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pitchblackcore · 5 months
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lurking
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krissiefox · 3 months
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Otters painted on a storm drain in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
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2022dirt · 3 months
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Alligator crawls out of storm drain near mobile apartment complex in Alabama.
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skulllaria · 1 year
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Stoner Drain
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bubbsnugg · 10 months
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stormdraincomic · 2 years
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The cover for the introductory chapter of a science fiction comic I’m working on! Very queer, very big monsters, very frequent imagery of ant legs.
Beneath the sands of a hostile desert, an untracked private transport is sabotaged, and its passengers find themselves stranded in the decommissioned Storm Drain Network trade tunnels. However, it soon becomes clear that someone else still controls these run-down tracks and stations, someone who isn’t intent on letting the group slip through their fingers. Faced with membership or death, The Colony welcomes the unfortunate travelers into their underground compound.
Nio, the protagonist, has had his journey to receive more comprehensive means of medical transition cut short, and must instead move his focus to supporting his friends' survival, avoiding the wrath of The Colony's leaders, and trying not to get too attached to those who, despite their roles in the organisation entrapping him, capture his interest.
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sargassos · 2 years
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My heron is complete 😊
This piece is for our local storm drain art exhibition, to raise awareness for the health of our local endangered creek. I’ve never seen a heron within the town limits, personally, but maybe someday, when the creek ecosystem is doing better, I might!
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girldickman · 2 years
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sewagewader · 2 years
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Undertow Spillway - Splatoon 3 (2022) Developer: Nintendo EPD Publisher: Nintendo A multiplayer stage for Splatoon 3′s Turf War gamemode. Two 4-player teams compete to eliminate opponents and cover as much of the level’s terrain with their team’s paint colour in three minutes as possible to secure victory.
The stage draws inspiration from the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (also known as G-Cans). The storm drain was built by the Japanese government to mitigate flooding during rain and typhoon seasons that had impacted the Saitama prefecture of Tokyo and the local farmland. The world’s largest underground floodwater diversion facility took over a decade and cost 2.6 billion US Dollars to complete and can move 200 tons of water per second into the Edo River.
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