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| | | | Re: Draining < Reply # 6 on 12/19/2023 2:13 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Steed
Are there any parts of it that are dated? Drains haven't changed that much in 20 years, have they?
| Yeah, quite a bit of it is dated. It became dated pretty quickly. It's also 1 person's opinion so there are chunks where Pred speaks on behalf of drain explorers where many drainers didn't agree with it, so it's really just an opinion piece, so obviously there will be discrepancies. I remember Pred saying it was dated and that he wanted to do another update, and he's been gone for almost 20 years (1994). I just had a quick flick through a bit of it and a huge chunk of how to find drains is dated (I doubt many people would use a street directory book to find drains... some have probably never even handled one ) It's definitely a great historical document written by one of the brilliant minds in the Australian drain exploring scene.
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| | | Re: Draining < Reply # 11 on 4/27/2024 8:29 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Zwizz Don't worry, any encouragement isn't going to make me dive headfirst into the next open manhole cover I come across, I just feel like this is important to know. After a little bit of research, apparently January and February are about tied for lowest precipitation. It's been getting less rainy/snowy here over the years anyways, but I'm still a little anxious about the random blizzards we get once every couple years. No, I haven't read Predator's Approach to Draining, but I will now!
| I will tell you that I've exploring storm drains for 10+ years as of now and I've never been rained out of a drain before but then again, I've always had an OCD with checking the weather to make sure it doesn't rain. We get a lot of rain here in MSP (Minneapolis/ST.Paul Minnesota in case you wanted to know) but it's always a great idea to check the weather to see if it rains and here in MSP the snow usually isn't an issue unless it is super nice outside (above freezing to be exact) and when it's during what I call melting season for which that's between March and May, then I wouldn't go into any drains during melting season. One time I did go into a drain when the snow was melting, and it was a very dangerous situation and I highly recommend not doing that. Luckily, I was with 2 other people, but it was extremely slippery, and the water flow was super intense where I wasn't comfortable with it at all. I love to explore drains in the winter because I love when it's very cold outside with blowing snow and when you go into a drain while it's windy and cold, it feels very nice underground (50s and 60s to be exact). One time it was 30 or 40 windchill advisory with blowing/drifting snow and very cold outside here in MSP and I crawled into a small drain tunnel with smooth ice on the bottom of the tunnel, where I could slide on my knees, but I didn't go super far but it felt like I was in an igloo, and I called it an arctic adventure. I've also been in drains that I walked into while it was very cold and windy out, that had a lot of ice formations in the tunnels but sadly this past winter we didn't have a lot of ice due to a lack of cold and snow. Drains can be dangerous, so I highly encourage you go with at least one friend, at least until you feel comfortable going alone. I know at one point I was a little nervous exploring drains alone because I couldn't find any friends to explore drains with, but I very quickly realized that I could do it with no problem. Like I always say on UER. Always tell people where you are going, so if something happens, then people will know roughly where you are going. If you do decide to go at night, then be warned that it can be more dangerous because the animals go into the drains, examples would raccoons, opossums, rats, ETC but I've never had any serious issues with any animals except sometimes, some animals won't run away and if that happens, be careful with these animals because you don't know what they will do to you. If an animal jumps/leaps at you, then you leave right away because I've had this happen to me twice now and one of those times, I thought this animal was going to chase me and attack me, but it didn't, but I high tailed my ass out of that drain and left. Now a days I explore drains mostly alone just because a lot of the MSP explorers here don't seem to like to exploring drains like I do but sometimes I get lucky and get to explore drains with friends but keep in mind that I'm always looking for friends to explore with. I highly encourage you explore drains and pop manhole covers because you never know what you will find and I encourage you to continue using Google Earth for finding new drains and manhole covers. I had gotten very lucky over the years, just doing this and you would be amazed on how many cool drains you will find. A lot of times you can see the outfalls/infalls or at the very least be able to tell where a drain will be. Sometimes you are not able to see if there is a drain there because there are often a lot of trees and weeds blocking your view. That's when you go there and take a look to see what you have found. A really good way to find drains is to look by massive cities and by any buildings where there are water sources like ponds/ditches ETC. Also, a lot of parks with water sources will have drains but not all. I hope all of this stuff I said will help you on your journey to find unknown drains to explore.
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