Month: October 2024

In the early evening, I needed to pop down to the drug store downstairs. As normal, I took the stairs because it’s a good way to get some easy exercise. On the way down, around the eighth floor, where the parkade floors begin, I noticed the air felt damp, like it was really humid. I also noticed water pooling near the landings of the stairwell. Then came the most obvious observation, the concrete walls of the staircase were wet. There was clearly something wrong.

When I got back from the drug store, I posted some photos to the building’s Facebook group. I was told by the group admin that the issue was that a unit in the building had suffered a very severe water leak and what I saw was the water from that leak. I cannot imagine how bad the leak was that it was able to leak through the concrete walls between floors. This is bad for the concrete, right? At the very least, it can’t be good?

I have no idea how the leak happened or what the circumstances were behind it, but the owner of that unit is gonna be in for a world of hurt both financially and practically. I hope they have enough insurance to cover this leak because if they don’t, this could potentially ruin them.

It was warm enough to wear shorts on the Sunday of this Thanksgiving long weekend. If weather reports are to believed, it was about 22 degrees Celsius on Sunday afternoon. I was outside on that day and I wore shorts and in the direct sun, it was warm enough to make me sweat. I could tell people did not expect it to be that warm because I saw many people holding onto their jackets or wearing their jackets wrapped around their waist.

In the years past, I’ve written about the relatively new phenomenon of wearing shorts for your Thanksgiving dinner and having the meal out on your patio or deck. If you had your family meal on Sunday, that was definitely possible this Thanksgiving. While on my Sunday walk a couple older folk were remarking how warm it was for a mid-October afternoon and how wonderful it was. In the moment, sure it’s great but I’m thinking the reason why it’s hot in October is the same reason why we just saw the extreme weather in Florida and North Carolina recently.

Anyways, the crazy thing is, in a month, it’s quite possible the temperatures will have dropped enough for snow to fall.

Today was the day they were supposed to shut off water access all day to do some plumbing repairs. I can only imagine they did the repairs because I had water all day. I had enough water to poop twice and flush as much as I needed to, as well as wash my hands with hot water. In fact, I washed up several times during the day while I was cleaning and prepping to eat.

If I had to guess I was using the residual water that was left in the tanks and there was so little demand during the day that it never ran out.

Anyways, I hope the repairs went well. During the day, I was thinking what is more an inconvenience: no water vs. no electricity. In the short term, not having power is way more of inconvenience. Without electricity, you basically can’t do anything in this modern world, whether it’s fun stuff or doing work. In the long term, water becomes more important as you can’t live without water.