Post here if you are, and your country and approximate location if you can.

Edit: I didn’t want to make the post subject pedantic and need a [serious] tag, lol.

E2: ok, looks like a local hiccup for that station. Kinda on edge, there are going to be shortages. Just don’t know when. Gas here is hitting $4/gal at some stations. Mostly close to $3.90 at the rest. We were paying $2.65 when this started.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 days ago

    In Calgary they have water shortages, because they road-salted their water mains into oblivion.

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    Water mains take incoming water, not drainage water. How does salting roads harm water mains?

    Like, you mean that the water drains off and comes in contact with the pipe and damages it from the exterior?

    searches

    Ah. Yes. Apparently this was a thing in Calgary recently.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/road-salt-calgary-bearspaw-south-feeder-main-9.6993387

    Sodium chloride use continues on Calgary roads after likely contributing to 2024 water main break

    Report suggests city’s road de-icing led to increased chloride levels in soil

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      1 day ago

      Yep. They had two catastrophic failures within months of each other, with the second one flooding out a bunch of people in their cars, and everybody’s just kind of praying there’s not another before they can be fixed. They’re steel wire reinforced concrete pipes, which don’t love salty ground water, and Calgary is more often than not experiencing winter and frequently icy.