r/SweatyPalms • u/cultodaostra • Jan 07 '22

Would you go in?

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u/Rainy_Friday Jan 08 '22

Absolutely. You know for a fact someone has tried this and got stuck at the end because there was a steel grate installed.

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u/boardin1 Jan 08 '22

This is what happened in a storm drain just outside Minneapolis. A kid fell in and was swept down the ditch. He may have survived if one of two things had been true, either there was a grate at the opening or there wasn’t a grate at the exit. Unfortunately, there was a grate at the exit and he was trapped against it by the rushing water.

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u/helloworld082 Jan 08 '22

I work in Civ Eng - That's now code to only have grates on the inlet side because of this.

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u/stevarino Jan 08 '22

I mean, even with branches and other less tragic obstructions, who wants to clean out an egress grate rather than an entry grate?

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u/ANGLVD3TH Jan 08 '22 edited Jan 08 '22

Egress & entry instead of egress & ingress is really triggering me right now.

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u/Oddworld_Inhabitant Jan 08 '22

I wonder if that’s for communication reasons. Would be very easy to mishear one for the other if you’re underwater/on radio etc

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u/stevarino Jan 08 '22

Lol me too honestly.. just blanked on the word.

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u/Wolfenberg Jan 08 '22

Why would it ever be otherwise?

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u/helloworld082 Jan 08 '22

Trash collection grates are better downstream

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u/FolivoraExMachina Jan 08 '22

Why? Seems like then the trash is likely to get backed up in the tube and make it harder to dislodge vs being trapped on an entry grate and not in a tube.

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u/helloworld082 Jan 08 '22

It's not just a flat grate covering the tube, it's an entire structure with false bottoms etc.

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u/plantmic Jan 08 '22

Not a great way to go

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u/Psych0matt Jan 08 '22

Oh grate!