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Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, flummoxed, gobsmacked, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.
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I am lost for words.
I got there late
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I hate to think what they'd have said had it been carrying Roger's Profanisaurus[^] instead.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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So, I pay all my utilities via credit card, and I receive emails when the bill is due and amount. Last month, the water department notified me that my bill was $240 and change. Considering my normal bill is $39 my attention was captured.
Here's the interesting thing - about 4 months ago, the water department started rolling out smart meters that they could query and collect usage information. Think now - water department, smart meters, automatic billing.... most of the people I've met from the county departments leave me less than inspired. This month, my water usage has been at a square wave. Normally 400 gallons a month, it's been spiking at various times and days to over a thousand gallons per day. I've already pointed out that their data is corrupt, but all I get is a tired voice on the line.
I may have found a new career, no, sorry misspoke, consulting opportunity.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: consulting opportunity Working for them seems more of a headache opportunity.
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charlieg wrote: over a thousand gallons per day.
Wow! That's like a 1" pipe going full tilt the whole day! Maybe you shouldn't fill your pool daily; you know, it's not a bathtub
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: Maybe you shouldn't fill your pool daily; you know, it's not a bathtub
My mother-in-law once got a water bill that was the equivalent of filling her pool 10 times daily for an entire month! The water company then compounded the mistake by crediting her account - twice!
They never corrected the account. I told her that when she moved away from her old house, she should have asked them to close out the account and pay her the sum.
At least the local paper got an amusing article out of it showcasing the incompetence of the water company.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Correct. And I have made the point that we don't have a pool. The general attitude I'm picking up is (a) oh elephant, I don't know anything about these meters... or (b) yawn, just another local whining about their bill.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Some years back we had dual, electronic/analog water meters. In case of disagreement the analog/mechanical one took precedence. Now the city gave up on the electronic ones and we just have to read ourselves the analog ones and enter the reading on a web page once a year. Works great.
Mircea
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This sounds like a broken pipe.
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If it was continuous you would be correct. But what we have then is a "self healing pipe" which in all my years I have never seen.
The fact that on Monday morning Sunday's usage was *exactly* 412 gallons for 7, 8, 9, and 10 pm each - really? I don't think so. Monday had an issue so when I went back to Sunday, those numbers all changed. using Smart Meters in departments that might not be as technically adept to pay attention to this stuff is a recipe for nonsense.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Definitely a meter failure then.
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My sympathies. We had a similar problem with "smart" meters here in Israel. It took a few billing cycles to fix, and IIRC, the meter itself was faulty.
The biggest problem was getting the pen-pushing, ing bureaucrats in the water company to accept that this was a problem with the meter, and not an intermittent leak in our pipes.
At least we were reimbursed for the unusual bills (they used the last billing cycle from before the erroneous bills to charge us).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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(Late to this thread, I know, but bear with me).
I live out in the country (far enough for the closest city so the everyone in the entire neighborhood has its own well), and about a decade ago the city decided to run pipes all the way down our street. Those who wanted to connect to it could apply, and we all had the choice to stick to our wells. Which most of us did.
A few months later, a neighbor of mine, 80+ years old, bless his heart, got a bill for his water usage. Not much of a significant amount, but he had not got his house connected to the city pipes. So he refused to pay it. Then got a warning the next month, and the one after he was getting warned they were going to cut off his water supply. He took it all to city hall, explained the situation, and dared them to cut him off, and they re-iterated that they would, if he didn't pay his bill. He was waiting with a camera for them to show up and record them looking for the valve.
Sadly, they never did show up and he stopped receiving those warning letters.
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Are you keeping up the ground water where you live?
According to articles I come across ever now and then, pumping of ground water in the US of A has lowered the ground water table dangerously much. California is worst off: In Central Valley, farmers must drill their wells more than 300 m deep to find water, and now, saltwater is seeping in. On the prairie, pumping did not got really going until several years after California, so it isn't that bad yet - but from what I read, the groundwater table is continuously lowering. A large part of the entire prairie lies on top of the same aquifer, the same "underground lake", so the water your neighbor farm is pumping up, is taken from your water reserves as well!
I saw a map showing the extent of this huge aquifer, but didn't save the URL - I believe that it extended into Canada to the north. Maybe Canada is rather depleting other aquifers, if Canadian farmers are as eager to pump groundwater as their USAtian colleagues ...
Where you live, do you have to drill you well deeper every year? Or can you still have your meals at the same groundwater table?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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