We all float down here Georgie
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Due to increased hurricanes and flooding we probably need a law that specifies storm drains have some type of safety grate. This isn't that rare either - years ago a friend's daughter died after being sucked into a drainage pipe.
As a father of a four-year-old, this story makes me want to fucking puke. Swept into a storm drain is one of the most horrific ways I could imagine losing my little girl.
Kids dying this way is 100% expected given the braindead design of US storm drains
I never actually thought about this.
Why exactly are storm drains designed like that with a opening for little kids to get sucked in?
Do other countries (with similar weather) have the same problems?
Those are big enough for kids to fit in? I've seen them, but I think the ones I've seen were still narrower then that.
People are talking about needing more inspectors, but they shouldn't even be manufacturing these with wide openings.
I live in the US and I've never seen one like that, only the square ones on the ground.
We have the grate in the floor, but not the massive openings that clown monsters live in.
This 3 foot pipe is also considered a storm drain. Unclear in the article if he was sucked down a street drain with unnecessarily large opening, or a drain for a creek.
Why don't they add a grid? That's completely unsafe
To lessen debris getting stuck. No idea if it's effective.
We have similar drains in Australia, I don't think it's particularly common but I have seen them get completely clogged in a big storm. Nearly flooded our friends house because they lived at the bottom of a hill.
I did say lessen. I've seen many sized drains get clogged in flooding haha.
The one on that picture is actually okay, I've seen way bigger openings.
Never seen them outside North America.
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