getting some good rain so you know what that means- time for the wastewater management sickos to fire up the big pipe tracker. follow along at home folks, it's fun. updates every 15 min. my money is on big pipe www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe... - ThreadSky

spindlypete.bsky.social • 5 days ago

getting some good rain so you know what that means- time for the wastewater management sickos to fire up the big pipe tracker. follow along at home folks, it's fun. updates every 15 min. my money is on big pipe

https://www.portland.gov/bes/big-pipe-tracker

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shrike.seattle.wa.us•5 days ago

OMG I wish Seattle had this! Or maybe we will soon? They've been redoing the CSOs here for like a decade.

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

we're at 39% as of 45 minutes ago. if we get up over 100% a lil bit of poopy will float into the river. but i don't think we will. but maybe i'm wrong! this is how normal people feel watching football i think

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

up to 47%! that's 47 MILLION gallons of sewage and stormwater (admittedly, mostly stormwater) that is NOT being shot untreated straight into the river! 47 MILLION folks. that's a big pipe

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

$1.4 BILLION dollars worth of pipe, it goddamn better be big

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

we should have a local folk tradition that we all do on the rare occasions that the big pipe hits 100% like we all do a shot or go flush all the toilets at once or something. maybe not that. anybody have any ideas

chompmancobra.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hooray for the Big Pipe!

If it hits 100% I suggest "make a note not to go boating for a week or two"

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

yknow i was going to make a joke like "oh too bad, the weather is going to be perfect" and show you a really dismal forecast but it actually looks like several nice days coming that people might conceivably wish to boat. too bad

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

we are at NINETY NINE PER CENT folks!!!! but the rain is slowing down and expected to stop in 47 minutes! it's a nail biter but i think we might be looking at a lil bit of poopy in the river!!!

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

okay in the absence of any better suggestions i'm declaring that the folk tradition is that when the big pipe hits 100% and a lil bit of poopy goes into the river we all listen to There's A New Sound by Tony Burrello

brianmwilcox.bsky.social•5 days ago

Everyone pee in the yard for the rest of the day.

brianmwilcox.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s at 100% right now!

papashot.bsky.social•5 days ago

Go clog up some storm drains to buy the pipe a little more time.

cascadiacoug.bsky.social•5 days ago

80% currently and in about an hour it will stop raining until tomorrow morning 👀

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

😬😬😬

sirnemo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one lately:

mzskyzy.bsky.social•5 days ago

90% as of 45 minutes ago and still raining 👀 This is the entertainment I needed today

mzskyzy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just updated a minute ago to 99%!

stevenalleyn.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reminds me of the “Big Check” gag in HIMYM (Marshall: “A check so big it doesn’t take its shirt off when it goes swimming!” Robin: “Now that is a big check!”)

armandjeff.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm hearing reports that a second big pipe has struck the Willamette watershed (there's actually two big pipes, one on either side of the river)

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

now are these pipes the same size or is one a little bit bigger

armandjeff.bsky.social•5 days ago

I assume they must be exactly the same, or else one would be called Big Pipe and the other Little Big Pipe

cruff.bsky.social•5 days ago

There's a third for the slough!

fieldersoprano.bsky.social•5 days ago

I was always curious about sewage systems, asked my dad a lot of questions he made up fun answers to. But we recently had a pipe issue at work and they had to bring the camera in and the screen was positioned to where we could watch too. I kept “joking” to my coworkers about the must-see TV

fieldersoprano.bsky.social•5 days ago

But it really was fascinating! Made me wish I had gone into that kind of trade but ultimately I’m a baby about bad smells

artsyhonker.bsky.social•5 days ago

Or watching the red sock go around in the washing machine

artsyhonker.bsky.social•5 days ago

(...okay maybe I'm not normal)

live.from.roys.house•5 days ago

yeah i'm a wastewater management sicko but i don't like to root for other people's teams i just follow the local stuff

mzskyzy.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's at 46% now!

peek.bsky.social•5 days ago

“The big game”? No thank you I prefer “the big pipe”

joshbaker.bsky.social•5 days ago

bluntzkrieg420.bsky.social•5 days ago

oh hey Minneapolis built some of these too during a highway project. I'm not sure if we have a cool tracker for them though

buttjohnson.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you for introducing me to this. I look forward to telling my spouse “The big pipe is 49% full” and refusing to elaborate further

anangryopossum.bsky.social•5 days ago

75 percent, go big pipe! You can do it!

mindcrime.bsky.social•5 days ago

We love a big pipe, don't we Portland?

sagebrushsparrow.bsky.social•5 days ago

Omfg this is thrilling thx

billie.bookstoreromanceday.org•5 days ago

51% and the rain's still coming.

quannum.bsky.social•5 days ago

Go pipe go!

dreamnotoftoday.bsky.social•5 days ago

I love the big pipe. I remember what it was like before they built it. I would spend a lot of time boating on the Willamette in high school, and we’d paddle past the pipes dumping sewage in. There was a standing order to avoid contact after *any* amount of rain. No fish. I love the big pipe.

spindlypete.bsky.social•5 days ago

i love the big pipe too! it sucked to pay for it but i can't think of a single better use of money

acidlich.bsky.social•5 days ago

Local culture is so important

cascadiacoug.bsky.social•5 days ago

cc @sickoscommittee.org

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