Around 8/25/2005 1:08 PM, Doug Kanter wrote:

Just like water heaters only melt down 3 hours after you've left on
vacation.... :-)

Yeah, any idea why do they do that?



Funny story time:
Because a pipe had cracked and the basement had flooded, my uncle (same
one that had his gas stolen) had new carpeting installed in his basement
courtesy of his homeowners insurance while almost the entire family was
on their annual two-week boat vacation.

Since the house was empty (and having just dried out the flooded
basement) the water heater was very prudently turned off.

So.

My cousin comes home from college for the weekend to take a shower and
wash clothes, and he turns on the water heater. He forgets to turn it
off, and heads over to his girlfriend's for the night. Comes back the
next morning, and the basement (including *two-day-old* carpeting that
his parents haven't even SEEN yet) is covered in about 5 inches of
water, thanks to a failed water heater tank. Being the only relative
nearby with a wet/dry shop vac and some spare time, I was enlisted by my
somewhat frantic cousin to go and help with the mopping up. Uncle made
it home from Friday Harbor in record time, and much swearing (and other
such hilarity) ensued.



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~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats."
-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows