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Post by iguanamamma on Sept 21, 2008 0:32:47 GMT -5
My former neighbor in Galveston is a first responder. He has already had to be detoxed several times. He has seen bodies in the streets but he also offer some strange advice. If you live by any fast food places and there is flooding realize the grease in their grease pits will float and cover everything nearby. He said a particularly nasty area is behind a Jack in the Box. There's grease on everything. Another gross thing he saw was a meat freezer with sides of beef. The water opened the doors and the electricity was off and the meat washed up by the windows of the restaurant. The smell and the gradual decomposition being visible has been sickening. The stench from Galveston reaches the mainland. I guess my few things in the fridge are small potatoes compared to recent nastiness. Gee, I don't know if I am looking forward to going back!
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Post by eagle on Sept 21, 2008 9:04:48 GMT -5
Yes, I don't think I've smelled anything worse than the waste that accumulates in a grease trap. And that's one thing all restaurants are required to have. Flooding would surely wreak havoc with the in-ground grease traps as well as the above ground ones.
I am truly grateful that I have only one above ground grease trap to deal with in a non-flood area. The stench you describe is surely at least a billion-fold of what I experience when we clean ours out (which was done 2 days ago, BTW.)
Of all the plumbers I know, they all say that dealing with grease traps is the worst possible job a plumber has to do.
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Post by mellowyellow on Sept 21, 2008 10:31:26 GMT -5
What exactly is a grease trap? Obviously it is something for putting used grease... but how does it work? How do you clean it? Etc... Things I have never even thought about in my life...
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Post by iguanamamma on Sept 23, 2008 8:19:45 GMT -5
Most restaurants have them.It is how they deal with used cooking grease.
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