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My worst time draining was a while back. My pals and I were exploring the storm drains underneath the neighborhood, I was dared to try going in a small side tunnel, and being the stupid 16 year old I was, I accepted. I am guessing it was about 30 inches across (I might measure it soon) It was small enough that I was unable to "army crawl" through it. Instead, I spent about 10 minutes slowly flopping forward through a puddle. After that period. Finally, I finally reached the anticlimactic end of it. It was a small area that I could stand up in. After that, I slowly flipped until I was back out the other end. We had quite the laugh about it afterwards. 
Do you all have any strange stories of draining?
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The Urbex Zine Guy
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I put together an article on the worst draining stories in Korea.
There are a couple newer stories of people falling into the water, all in a similar location but under different circumstances, one where I was just testing the ice of this pool when it was frozen over during the winter, and it broke, and my foot went through, and the water was deeper than my rubber boot. Not a big deal other than some extra benzene exposure to my foot.
During night, another guy jumped up on what he thought was a solid ledge (ie this), only to find it was a narrow divider between water channels (ie this). He fell into near-freezing, fast-flowing water and managed to escape by himself before any of us noticed.
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It technically wasn't a drain, but rather a steam tunnel. Some friends and I were at the former site of Overbrook Asylum, which is currently a housing development. I suspected some of the old tunnels still remained, so we wanted to look around for them. After some searching, we found a 16 inch high entryway into a 4 ft high tunnel. It was essentially like squeezing myself into one of the storm drain openings you see on the curb, so I was the only one who wanted to go in. I was lying on my back going feet first into the tunnel, using my hands to pull myself in. The roof of the tunnel had a support beam that made it so that I couldn't see the roof past the first 6 inches, but by the time I had shimmied myself to the point my feet were touching the ground, I could see past the beam. At this point I found myself face to face with a living wall of particularly large cave crickets. In fact, every square inch of the roof was covered in them and that layer was covered in another layer. Because I didn't like the thought of cave crickets raining down on me, I decided to get out quick. It had taken me about 5 minutes of wiggling the get into the opening, but slightly under 10 seconds to get out. I actually pulled myself out with so much force that I cracked every one of my knuckles at once and left a distinct imprint of the cement walls on my hands.
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The cave crickets reminds me of a very stupid lesson I had to learn while draining. I really wanted to carry an actual torch while draining, so I put together a homemade one. Turns out they don't work very well for illumination, since you can't see into the distance and they ruin your night vision.
I did this a few times and something always went wrong. The first time, I wrapped too much bandage wrapping around the stick, and while it worked fine, it was too heavy and the thing fell off into the water.
Another time, in a much smaller drain only about 8 feet high, I lit the torch, and as the smoke ascended, all the spiders living in the ceiling decided to escape the fumes by spinning their webs and descending all at once. I suddenly found myself totally surrounded by dozens of spiders, so I shrieked and dropped the torch in the water, at which point I'm guessing all the spiders climbed back up again.
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I remembered another thing. One time we were draining and found a raccoon skull. My younger brother was dared to lick it. He had his tongue out. Then one of the other boys decided to hit him on the back of the head. The resulting chaos was crazy.
Teenagers combined with dares is a one way trip to chaos.
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I was exploring a super cool brick drain in Denver with a couple of Colorado locals on an overcast day with no rain forecasted. About 400 yards into the drain, the water turned dirty and began to rapidly rise- likely from a rainstorm further upstream, beyond the "local" forecasted area. We had to make a rapid retreat back to the outfall before the water got too high to escape.
"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.
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I've had quite a few things happen to me while I explored drains but most of them were actually kind of funny. Back when I started to explore the big drains on the Mississippi River by entering into the outfalls, I was wearing cheap tennis shoes where the tread on the bottoms were worn off (please note that I DO NOT recommend wearing these kinds of shoes in drains), anyway, The drain was a big concrete arch tunnel with sloped sides and there was a decent sized waterfall jetting water from the center of the top of the tunnel, well I decided to carefully walk along the right side of the waterfall and apparently it was slippery, I was also wearing a bulky backpack and I slipped and fell on my backpack, under the waterfall, getting soaking wet. Shortly before I went into the drain I slipped and fell under the bridge, on a rock but neither time I got hurt but it was annoying plus it was funny. There was another time where I was trying to find the easiest way down a steep hill, by the river to check out another big drain but at that time the easiest way down was a very high, steep grassy/rocky hill, for which I decided to slide down that steep hill (keep in mind that it rained early that morning before I got up, so the hill was super muddy, making it more slippery (LOL). Well guess what, I slid down the steep hill and all of sudden I went super fast and whipped down that steep hill (it was extremely fun) but getting back up that steep hill was a bitch to do. When I climbed back up that steep hill I had to carefully climb side to side and be careful on what I grab on the way up because a lot of stuff was loose (also keep in mind that this steep was maybe 100 feet high, so it wasn't that easy to climb but it was a hell of a workout (LOL). When I finally got up to the top I slipped on a wet log and I hit my face on the log but it didn't hurt that bad, just annoying. I had another time where I was trying to get into a drain that didn't look too hard to get into but it wasn't exactly easy either. There was a lot of big rocks, so I attempted to walk out in the Mississippi River to get to the drain but the water quickly started to get deeper, so I walked over to the wall and I found out that there was some rocky ledges I could crawl onto and I did that to carefully get into the drain. When I was done in the drain I tried to climb back onto the rocky ledge but I couldn't find it again, so I plopped into the deep water and I swam back to where I could walk out of there. There was a time similar to this where I was trying to get into a drain outfall and there was a gap in the tunnel but at that time I didn't know that I could squeeze into that gap, so I decided to try the outfall. Again, as I walked out to the outfall, the water got deeper but this time there was a broken fence post sticking out from the tunnel, so I grabbed the post and hung onto it and climbed along the post while I was in deep water until I could touch the bottom of the drain outfall, so I could get into the outfall. When I could touch and I got into this drain I checked out this drain but after I was done I left the drain out that gap I mentioned earlier. One time I went into a drain during snow melting season and there was a lot of fast moving water plus it very very slippery and I don't recommend going into a drain during snow melting season for those of you who has snow where they live. That was one of my most scariest moments in drains.
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Here's another funny thing that happened to me involving me exploring a drain. This was my very first actual drain I've explored at that time. I was with another friend but for some reason he didn't want to come with me into a 4 foot RCP tunnel (LOL). At that time the only flashlight I had was a shitty lightbulb flashlight (not LED like the lights we have today). Since my friend pussed out, I ended up exploring this drain alone while he waited outside the drain outfall. I walked (crouched) a little ways up the small tunnel after getting to a certain point, well then my old ass lightbulb flashlight suddenly stopped working and I didn't have an extra flashlight. At that point I was in pitch black darkness with no light in sight. On my way back to the outfall, in complete darkness I was very mad and I started yelling, cussing etc (keep in mind that noises echo throughout the tunnels). Then when I finally got out of the drain I forgot that my friend was still waiting outside and I asked him if he heard me yelling? He looked shocked and he said he did hear everything I said for which that was very funny to me. As I might of mentioned on here before. Never go into drains without extra lights (flashlights, headlamps), batteries, backpack and most recently would be portable battery chargers/power banks. Trust me, these things I mentioned will be your best friends for life. No lie, it really helps me a lot for those of you who explore a lot of drains on a normal basis. Especially in the winter when battery life might be effected by the cold.
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