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Saturday Afternoon Open Thread: Before the Deluge

By Jeralyn

I woke up to no water and the Denver Water Department outside my front door. A pipe broke under my lawn and sidewalk and was leaking large amounts of water into the street. First they said I might have to call a plumber and repair it if turned out the leak was on the house side -- but then they determined it was on the city side. Next, big tractors with huge claws arrived and they tore up the concrete sidewalk and lawn and dug down to replace the broken pipe. [More...]

Now they are filling the hole with dirt and next week they will pour new concrete and replace the front portion of the lawn that got flooded and torn up.

Then they had me run all the faucets in the bathtubs and showers in the house to help them get air out of the lines. When you turn the faucet on, it gushes and then sputters for a while but I hope it will settle down.

I just logged on for the first time today and since midnight, there have been another 200 registered commenters/spammers from the UK, India, the Phillipines, Malaysia and Australia. (I deleted 300 yesterday.) We stripped the website line and bio section on the account user registration page so they can't put in their spam links, but that also means for now, your homepages and bios aren't showing up. We're working on a fix to be able to restore them. Now I have to individually open all of these 200 new spammer accounts to see if they posted comments, erase them and delete their accounts.

So I'm a bit overwhelmed here, thus the song, Before the Deluge.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 22, 2009 (boomark / email).