Ah, gotta love Chinese plumbing. How can I make this transportation related???? A downstream bottleneck caused the turd queue to spill back into our laundry room. The plumbing systems here are pretty open. No P-traps and a lot of drains in floors which are open to the sewer pipes below. What does this result in? Well, most apartments I've lived in smell like sewer, especially in bathrooms. I remember hearing theories that SARS actually spread because of this. We had about three inches of raw sewer in our laundry room, from the five apartments above ours. I thought it was because we are on the first floor and the 4 days of straight rain caused the sewers to back up. After looking outside the window though, the ground is still several feet below our house so that couldn't be the problem. I called the maintenance and they had three guys out for about three hours trying to clear the sewer inside and outside our apartment. Finally they were successful and the laundry room drained, but left a nice mess. We cleaned it up so that it was sparkling and clean, but yesterday evening after dinner it filled back up. Yuck.
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