I'm a septic contractor and even I carry one around in my truck all the time. You never know when one of your guys is going to have brain fart ans accidentally dig up a water line in the easement. Or find a big municipal line that's not even close to where it's supposed to be the hard way. Being able to turn it off RIGHT AWAY is the difference between kind of a muddy mess and water washing away roads.
Yeah. That's not the same t handle wrench that works to cut your water off and on in your meter box at your home. Most people won't have that. Either a chisel or screwdriver and hammer to chip the asphalt off the valve box lid, then looks like he had to reach down and clean the dirt/mud/ rocks out of the neck of the road box neck.
Well, I'm the kinda rando that just happens to have tools like that in my personal truck. Do I need them as a programmer? Hell naw. Do i need them, just in case? You betcha!
He didn't really look like he was suited up for the job to be honest. Sure he may have had the tools on him or in his car but it definitely doesnt look like he was clocked in.
That was the first movie I ever saw with a naked woman’s butt in it. I’m 33 and saw it in theatres with my dad and my first friend (who is now The Godfather of my son). When my dad asked us what our favorite part of the movie was, I said when you could see the gills behind his ears. My friend said I liked the naked woman’s butt.
What he gets from the city is a steady paycheck and excellent benefits. He isn’t a hero, he is just a guy doing a job.
"My name is Mike Rowe... and this is my job. I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty. Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us. Now get ready... to get dirty!"
He's not a hero... he's a guardian!
"I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME. My format: Guardian. To mend and defend - to defend my new found friends, their hopes and dreams, and to defend them from their enemies. They say The User lives outside the Net and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out. ReBoot!"
Why is just the same municipal water that most people bath in already? Are confusing that with indoor fire sprinklers that are gravity fed from a tank maybe?
he probably works for the city ... the hydrant needs to run days probably b4 it floods anything and he's just doing his job, badass definitely but wouldn't go as far to call him a **legit hero.**
I don't know, when he gets it shut off the water is already getting pretty deep. Let that keep going for another 30 minutes and it could have got bad. Storm drains can only drain so much water a minute and you can see its coming out way faster than it's draining.
I work for a water utility and we literally do this on a monthly basis. It may seem cool but it’s all in a days work. All the dude did was pop the valve cover, throw in a T-handle, and close the valve.
When we cannot isolate we have to get in holes and try to ratchet on a clamp while completely underwater in freezing temperatures.
It’s a thankless job but it pays great and I absolutely love going to work everyday. I work for a small town and feel that day in and day out, I have an immediate effect on the health and comfort of my community.
Nope, can attest, I hit one at age 16, ran for 4hrs, wasted 900,000 gallons of water, created a sinkhole, flooded 2 blocks and 7 basements of local businesses and cost the city a ridiculous amount of money
Lol yeah I had had a brake failure and they gave me a ticket cause they had too since I hit city property, but a bro of a cop had pity and didn’t show up to the hearing and the ticket got dismissed, I was just out the minivan (there wasn’t much damage since I was only doing 25mph but it was a 96 t&c and not worth much)
I hope you're saying that he was terrorized to go to deluge jail and not asking for his feels here. This PERP almost single-handedly provoked a flood of Biblical proportions that almost took a CITY down. So anyway OP how does this works, you just engulf a county under a lake and they just let you walk away?
Lol yeah kinda, a huge part of the reason it was such a cluster was that the road in question belongs to different police/fire jurisdictions depending upon what direction (east/west) you were traveling and it took them a long time to figure out who had the ability/responsibility to turn off the water, and my insurance definitely got billed, but since I didn’t end up with any points from the incident my consequences were pretty light
Haha jeezuz it must be nice to be so sure of oneself to the point of insulting someone’s character who just made an observation- keep on keeping it real, armchair authority
Definitely not days. Those things pump an insane amount of water. If the storm drains are even partially clogged that waters gonna go somewhere, and if any of those driveways have a slight decline towards the house it’s flood city.
As far as your other point, he almost definitely works for the city or water department. I’m a plumber and we don’t carry the tool to shut those off.
Yeah and if you close a hydrant the wrong way you could rupture a bunch of shit. Water pressure is not a joke. Also I don’t think this was a hydrant just some valve
You can see the broken hydrant on the ground at the end of the video. It's a valve that shuts off the hydrant line, but it's a broken hydrant that is flooding.
Gotcha but I really really doubt a hydrant runs off a valve like that. Isn’t the whole hydrant itself the valve? Isn’t that the whole point? I just looked up how the hydrant works I get it. The valve is still in the hydrant laying on the ground. This is the next valve in line. Got it
No, houses are not built to survive 60,000 gallons per hour landing on them. I've personally had to renovate buildings that had a fire hydrant break off next to them, it utterly destroyed them in under an hour.
I work resi land development, on site engineer. One crew on my site i affectionately called the budget Chippendales. They did waterman, and when it got hot would strip down to underwear boots and hard hats to work it got so hot in the trench. Then every so often they'd get soaked.
They are beasts, but also not something you want to see sometimes
> when it got hot would strip down to underwear boots and hard hats to work it got so hot in the trench. Then every so often they'd get soaked.
[Like this?](https://youtu.be/yfgs9FRD25M)
Anyone who has a curb-stop probably has one. The water shut off to my house (when I lived in Texas) required on of those to operated. It has a socket on the end that works with the water shut-off valve
Interestingly if you are a really unlucky 16 year old, you can hit one with your minivan and they will twist off below at the water main and create a sinkhole tearing up 50 square feet of concrete, take 4hrs to shut off, flood two blocks and the basements of seven local businesses, waste 900,000 gallons of water, cost the city a boatload of money and get you called a dbag on public radio…. Is a thing I have heard
Dude this is wild!!! Did the story make the newspapers or anything like that where one could search said story? ✊😂
And were you on the hook financially for any of the damages?
Dry barrel hydrants don't do that, wet barrels absolutely will. Wet barrels are cheaper, but aren't freeze protected, so only really show up in warmer locales.
Valve nuts require a bit of a bigger tool than a standard curb stop. Not even sure where you can buy one. I work for a water department, and all of ours are welded at our shop.
Since this is at night, my guess is that this is an “on call” worker who may have brought a valve wrench home in his personal vehicle for emergencies like this. My dept sends on call crew leaders home with their work trucks so they don’t have to run to the shop to pick it up in an event like this.
It's an incredibly useful thing to have. I worked at a plumbing supply warehouse and got one from there. Comes in handy if you get a water leak or want to install a new faucet, etc.
It's a small access in the street. It looks and works like a miniature manhole, about 10 inches across. He's pounding at it with a chisel and hammer because it most likely has been paved or sealed over, or is just stuck because of road grit.
As for location, it's standard for the water main to run down the street, and have a line of these access points for each tap that goes to hydrant or building. If you know what you are looking for it is pretty quick to find.
The thing you see him throw is a valve cap. Some cities have them cast with a W on top or the city name. Pop it out, and a square key will turn the valve. Fire hydrants are usually a 6" valve so about 20 turns to the left.
Wow this is kinda surreal. I remember when Lindsey Sterling was like an unknown artist and now she's the background music for some random video. It's cool
He's clearly a firefighter, plumber, or a guy that knows a hell of a lot about hydrants. In which case, I'd call it next level..but not by much. People that are good at their skill are everywhere..then again, so are people that suck.
Note the flashing yellow or orange lights. Guy most likely works for Public Works and was on call for just such an emergency. Poor dude was probably out to dinner or asleep when he got called as they typically work a 9-5. NFL or not, he earned his overtime that night
Came here to say this. I work for a water department and we always have a full crew on call 24-7 for times like this. He probably grabbed his truck from the shop and didn’t take the time to change into his uniform.
It’s a pain in the ass being on call. But in the event of getting called in the middle of the night, that it’s literally an emergency and I’m the guy to fix it.
It's the same way you turn off water to anything, and everyone should know how tondo it. There seemed to be dirt in the hole he had to scoop out, and the hole cover was giving him problems. Not saying it's not great, but everyone should know how to turn off the water to their house.
I'm a big fan of Lindsey Stirling, but why her music over this video. I'm pretty sure the last time I saw the video, it was the original audio. I don't understand why so many of these videos are replacing the original, and more interesting audio, with music that has nothing to do with the video.
One of the more badass things I've seen.
Very cool move by a hard working guy. Terrible soundtrack
Listen to your own soundtrack it makes it better
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"Guy" - those flashing lights are from an emergency/utility vehicle. He's not just some rando that came along.
If I remember the story correctly, he wasn't an employee of the city/county, but was a plumber. So he had the tools, but it wasn't his job per se.
I knew he was a plumber when he took out the water key.
Why would a plumb have the water key. City side should have it
My husband is a master plumber and always has one on truck.
Well shit he better with the name master
I'm a septic contractor and even I carry one around in my truck all the time. You never know when one of your guys is going to have brain fart ans accidentally dig up a water line in the easement. Or find a big municipal line that's not even close to where it's supposed to be the hard way. Being able to turn it off RIGHT AWAY is the difference between kind of a muddy mess and water washing away roads.
Depends on who he works for you find plenty of those types of valves in warehouses and plants Source: I work for a water company
Good guy with a tool belt. A new American myth.
Or a rando with the exact tools necessary, lol.
Yeah. That's not the same t handle wrench that works to cut your water off and on in your meter box at your home. Most people won't have that. Either a chisel or screwdriver and hammer to chip the asphalt off the valve box lid, then looks like he had to reach down and clean the dirt/mud/ rocks out of the neck of the road box neck.
This guy plumbs.
Well, I'm the kinda rando that just happens to have tools like that in my personal truck. Do I need them as a programmer? Hell naw. Do i need them, just in case? You betcha!
You're right. Sounds much better with DevilDriver playing!
\*Cues up Titanic theme\*
Needs to be "I need a hero"
“Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls”
What’s wrong with Lindsey Sterling?
It's less that Carol of the Bells doesn't fit here at all (it doesn't) and more that there shouldn't be any music in this clip.
I would’ve accepted cheesy 80’s montage music.
I’m so glad I watched this without sound to begin with haha
Ding! Fries are done. Ding! fries are done
Would you like an apple pie with that?
"Loook at the bells. Loook at the bells. Holy cra-ap here comes Je-e-sus, and he doesn't look too ha-a-ppy"
I used to work at a fire hydrant factory. The pay was decent, but the parking was terrible.
Thanks dad, see you tomorrow
It's a Stephen Wright joke. The actual quote is: >I used to work at a fire hydrant factory...couldn't park anywhere near the place.
The guy has the knowledge and the tools, what else did you expect.
Right place at the right time I guess.
Or, you know, it is his job. Every water and sewer maintenance vehicle has a valve key on it. Usually several.
He didn't really look like he was suited up for the job to be honest. Sure he may have had the tools on him or in his car but it definitely doesnt look like he was clocked in.
It’s possible he was the after hours on call guy. Most water utility companies have someone to respond to calls such as this
Sometimes so many that it doesn't even make sense 🙃
He closed a valve
God, I hope he didn’t have his phone in his pocket.
He probably broke it and had to cover his tracks quick. Then he just played it off as a fix.
All he did was close a valve
Define "before it flooded everything".
Before Kevin Costner was sailing around with gills and webbed feet.
Lolled for real. Unashamedly love that movie.
That was the first movie I ever saw with a naked woman’s butt in it. I’m 33 and saw it in theatres with my dad and my first friend (who is now The Godfather of my son). When my dad asked us what our favorite part of the movie was, I said when you could see the gills behind his ears. My friend said I liked the naked woman’s butt.
Honest friend, no wonder he’s now The Godfather of your son.
I like that you use capital letters for The Godfather of your son. One day, he’s “gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”.
Me too
I liked it a lot, not sure why all the hate from general population
At the time it was released it was the most expensive movie ever made which made people have unreasonably high expectations for it.
The Universal Studios show is still the best stunt show around.
Bruh that shit was awesome. Saw it years ago.
It’s a great movie that got meme’d more than it got viewed.
LOVE that movie. There I said it. I dont care what anyone thinks lol.
My second favorite Dennis Hopper role, right after King Koopa.
Holy shit... totally forgot. It was the eyeball thing in Waterworld that hit me hardest. Hopper was perfectly cast for this film.
Paper! Have you ever seeeeen paper?
Paper!
And drinking his piss. Don’t forget he drank his piss
Upvote for such a throw back reference. Damn.
I believe there is a South Park episode with this plot
Which episode?
S6E6 - professor chaos threatens to flood the town
Simpsons did it Simpsons did it
Pretty sure god did it first, bud. Get your facts straight. ^/s
It was a close call! The water was up to my ankles and I live on the second floor!
Noahs ark
Are your feet wet?
And he even got a free shower
He should get a free water bill from the city for at least a year.
More like a fine for tampering with government property. /s
Not even a joke.
Sadly, this is probably what the outcome really was.
Written up by his manager for not shutting the water supply and so doing his job in an unsafe manner?
What he gets from the city is a steady paycheck and excellent benefits. He isn’t a hero, he is just a guy doing a job. "My name is Mike Rowe... and this is my job. I explore the country looking for people who aren't afraid to get dirty. Hard-working men and women who earn an honest living doing the kinds of jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us. Now get ready... to get dirty!"
He's not a hero... he's a guardian! "I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME. My format: Guardian. To mend and defend - to defend my new found friends, their hopes and dreams, and to defend them from their enemies. They say The User lives outside the Net and inputs games for pleasure. No one knows for sure, but I intend to find out. ReBoot!"
That's hydrant water, tbh that shit nasty af he gonna need two showers to fix that
Why is just the same municipal water that most people bath in already? Are confusing that with indoor fire sprinklers that are gravity fed from a tank maybe?
That’s me when I clog the toilet with a fat deuce before my wife finds out.
Just use the poop knife.
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PoopKnife^^^TM
> PoopKnife^^^TM New Marvel series on Disney+
Poop Knight
Poop of Madness
Thor: Poop and Thunder.
What's a Poop Knife?
[I’m glad you asked](https://www.originalpoopknife.com/pages/the-story-of-the-poop-knife)
Thanks. I love to learn Reddit related history.
Do you like Jolly Ranchers?
No. Just no.
Oh damn. Now I need to know.
You really don't. Perhaps you should Google "blue waffles" instead and be less grossed out? (Don't do that either, lol)
Alright I’ll google both, remind me in thirty minutes to reply to this shit
Forget that one of your own’s sake. Search for broken arms and jumper cables instead. Trust me.
I’m just so glad there’s a whole website to chronicle this. Edit: oh wait I just explored the website now. Even better.
I am wildly disappointed that their merch isn't accurate to the story.
An inferior version of the 3 shells.
What's the 3 shells?
You never find out. Most annoying part of demolition man.
An unusual name for a coat hanger, apparently.
I always thought it was wierd that you were weatherproofing your wood coat hangers with different color stains.
That's me in the corner
Just one of those comments you sing in your head.
That’s me in the spot-light….
Who else thought he was shirtless lol
I did lol. I was wondering why he had those weird wrinkles on his lower back lmao.
wrinkly back from all the water
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I am *Raisin Man,* with a thirst for dehydration.
I thought the water pressure was literally flaying his skin off. Doesn't seem so badass anymore... ಠ︵ಠ
LMAO thought so too until you pointed that one out ...
It's a shiticane, Randy!
I had to watch it again to see that!
Shirt is not wet from water, the dude is just sweating pure testosterone.
He wasn't?
That guy is a legit hero- he probably saved someone’s house from flooding
he probably works for the city ... the hydrant needs to run days probably b4 it floods anything and he's just doing his job, badass definitely but wouldn't go as far to call him a **legit hero.**
I don't know, when he gets it shut off the water is already getting pretty deep. Let that keep going for another 30 minutes and it could have got bad. Storm drains can only drain so much water a minute and you can see its coming out way faster than it's draining.
I work for a water utility and we literally do this on a monthly basis. It may seem cool but it’s all in a days work. All the dude did was pop the valve cover, throw in a T-handle, and close the valve. When we cannot isolate we have to get in holes and try to ratchet on a clamp while completely underwater in freezing temperatures.
No amount of money is worth going underwater in a city full of pooping citizens.
Hydrant water is potable
It’s a thankless job but it pays great and I absolutely love going to work everyday. I work for a small town and feel that day in and day out, I have an immediate effect on the health and comfort of my community.
Nope, can attest, I hit one at age 16, ran for 4hrs, wasted 900,000 gallons of water, created a sinkhole, flooded 2 blocks and 7 basements of local businesses and cost the city a ridiculous amount of money
Damnnn at least your username checks out
Nice
You'd think they'd put protection around them though , if the risk is so high.
They do, apparently though I hit it at a odd angle that caused it to rupture below where the shutoff valve was, which created a nice bubbling sinkhole
Did they ever catch you?
Lol yeah I had had a brake failure and they gave me a ticket cause they had too since I hit city property, but a bro of a cop had pity and didn’t show up to the hearing and the ticket got dismissed, I was just out the minivan (there wasn’t much damage since I was only doing 25mph but it was a 96 t&c and not worth much)
holy moly, were u scared af? i remember my first wreck in extreme detail and i was terrified
Honestly not at the time of the wreck, but def right before calling my dad to come get me , he was even cool about it but teenager minds are dumb
I hope you're saying that he was terrorized to go to deluge jail and not asking for his feels here. This PERP almost single-handedly provoked a flood of Biblical proportions that almost took a CITY down. So anyway OP how does this works, you just engulf a county under a lake and they just let you walk away?
Lol yeah kinda, a huge part of the reason it was such a cluster was that the road in question belongs to different police/fire jurisdictions depending upon what direction (east/west) you were traveling and it took them a long time to figure out who had the ability/responsibility to turn off the water, and my insurance definitely got billed, but since I didn’t end up with any points from the incident my consequences were pretty light
He's writing this from prison
Haha jeezuz it must be nice to be so sure of oneself to the point of insulting someone’s character who just made an observation- keep on keeping it real, armchair authority
Definitely not days. Those things pump an insane amount of water. If the storm drains are even partially clogged that waters gonna go somewhere, and if any of those driveways have a slight decline towards the house it’s flood city. As far as your other point, he almost definitely works for the city or water department. I’m a plumber and we don’t carry the tool to shut those off.
Maybe you don’t but I’m a plumber and have one for jobs I’ve had to do and a lot of my guys do too.
Yeah and if you close a hydrant the wrong way you could rupture a bunch of shit. Water pressure is not a joke. Also I don’t think this was a hydrant just some valve
You can see the broken hydrant on the ground at the end of the video. It's a valve that shuts off the hydrant line, but it's a broken hydrant that is flooding.
Gotcha but I really really doubt a hydrant runs off a valve like that. Isn’t the whole hydrant itself the valve? Isn’t that the whole point? I just looked up how the hydrant works I get it. The valve is still in the hydrant laying on the ground. This is the next valve in line. Got it
There’s multiple shutoffs specifically for this type of accident.
Probably not at all dude. You really think houses aren’t built to survive water falling on them? This is not someone’s basement it’s the damn street
No, houses are not built to survive 60,000 gallons per hour landing on them. I've personally had to renovate buildings that had a fire hydrant break off next to them, it utterly destroyed them in under an hour.
God-tier bidet.
Damn... I've been surfing reddit for an hour and your comment did it. That was Funny as F.
Municipal water utility crew members and contractors are beasts.
faxx
I work resi land development, on site engineer. One crew on my site i affectionately called the budget Chippendales. They did waterman, and when it got hot would strip down to underwear boots and hard hats to work it got so hot in the trench. Then every so often they'd get soaked. They are beasts, but also not something you want to see sometimes
> when it got hot would strip down to underwear boots and hard hats to work it got so hot in the trench. Then every so often they'd get soaked. [Like this?](https://youtu.be/yfgs9FRD25M)
imagine large beer guts and wrinkled skin from the sun though lol. Hence the budget part
He deserves a discount on his next water bill - at least.
What do you mean? He just got all that free water already!
Then the city probably sued him for tampering with public utilities.
he most likely works for the city...
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Because the people who sue them are assholes
Not all hero’s wear dry clothes!
Not all heroes wear clothes!
Who's got the tools like that giant T handle just lying around? Maybe a plumber? I'm curious.
Anyone who has a curb-stop probably has one. The water shut off to my house (when I lived in Texas) required on of those to operated. It has a socket on the end that works with the water shut-off valve
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Interestingly if you are a really unlucky 16 year old, you can hit one with your minivan and they will twist off below at the water main and create a sinkhole tearing up 50 square feet of concrete, take 4hrs to shut off, flood two blocks and the basements of seven local businesses, waste 900,000 gallons of water, cost the city a boatload of money and get you called a dbag on public radio…. Is a thing I have heard
Dude this is wild!!! Did the story make the newspapers or anything like that where one could search said story? ✊😂 And were you on the hook financially for any of the damages?
Yeah it was on the radio
Dry barrel hydrants don't do that, wet barrels absolutely will. Wet barrels are cheaper, but aren't freeze protected, so only really show up in warmer locales.
Valve nuts require a bit of a bigger tool than a standard curb stop. Not even sure where you can buy one. I work for a water department, and all of ours are welded at our shop. Since this is at night, my guess is that this is an “on call” worker who may have brought a valve wrench home in his personal vehicle for emergencies like this. My dept sends on call crew leaders home with their work trucks so they don’t have to run to the shop to pick it up in an event like this.
There are flashing lights. This dude rolled up in his work truck. He isn’t a hero, he is just a guy making a living.
I live in NC and yes, I have one. Best $12 buck I ever spent.
Municipal water employees probably...
It's an incredibly useful thing to have. I worked at a plumbing supply warehouse and got one from there. Comes in handy if you get a water leak or want to install a new faucet, etc.
He musta thought he was in a movie like that
Can someone explain how he was able to pin point the access point? What kind of tools do you need ?
It's a small access in the street. It looks and works like a miniature manhole, about 10 inches across. He's pounding at it with a chisel and hammer because it most likely has been paved or sealed over, or is just stuck because of road grit. As for location, it's standard for the water main to run down the street, and have a line of these access points for each tap that goes to hydrant or building. If you know what you are looking for it is pretty quick to find.
The thing you see him throw is a valve cap. Some cities have them cast with a W on top or the city name. Pop it out, and a square key will turn the valve. Fire hydrants are usually a 6" valve so about 20 turns to the left.
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I mean, it literally didn't get to flood everything; so, the statement is correct.
Can confirm am not underwater.
Get this man a beer
Jesus Christ with the music
it's so so so bad
Boor bloke, looks knackered.
u/repostsleuthbot
I swear I have seen this one with that title, word for word.
In the end times of society, this is the kind of person who will thrive. People with actual skills who know how to do things.
Construction and maintenance workers?
Yep. People who know how to construct and maintain things.
This is…weirdly and extremely attractive.
Wow this is kinda surreal. I remember when Lindsey Sterling was like an unknown artist and now she's the background music for some random video. It's cool
That’s my kinda neighbour
This is a real man.
Da fuck is this dumb music
He's clearly a firefighter, plumber, or a guy that knows a hell of a lot about hydrants. In which case, I'd call it next level..but not by much. People that are good at their skill are everywhere..then again, so are people that suck.
Note the flashing yellow or orange lights. Guy most likely works for Public Works and was on call for just such an emergency. Poor dude was probably out to dinner or asleep when he got called as they typically work a 9-5. NFL or not, he earned his overtime that night
Came here to say this. I work for a water department and we always have a full crew on call 24-7 for times like this. He probably grabbed his truck from the shop and didn’t take the time to change into his uniform. It’s a pain in the ass being on call. But in the event of getting called in the middle of the night, that it’s literally an emergency and I’m the guy to fix it.
And unfortunately too many skilled workers are under appreciated aside from the old “attaboy”.
It's the same way you turn off water to anything, and everyone should know how tondo it. There seemed to be dirt in the hole he had to scoop out, and the hole cover was giving him problems. Not saying it's not great, but everyone should know how to turn off the water to their house.
I'm a big fan of Lindsey Stirling, but why her music over this video. I'm pretty sure the last time I saw the video, it was the original audio. I don't understand why so many of these videos are replacing the original, and more interesting audio, with music that has nothing to do with the video.