In Persian there is this folk expression says, the fruitful year, can be seen from its spring. Iranian new year starts from first day of spring and this expression implies that the year with sounded successes and prosperity can be seen from its first day which is in spring. This usually said if the first day of spring coincides with luck-ful(if this word exists) occasion. Let's say, someone get his ever wanted job or gets healthy right at the start of the year.
So, in my case things are a little up-side-down! I should be watching out for year 2011!
Why? you may ask? because the night before start of 2011 about 4 floor higher than mine a gentlemen makes almost everyones's life like a hell!
How things started.
Dec. 30 at 11:45 pm. My mom walks off towards windows telling me, look there is water on the ground! I jump from my seat touching the ground, wondering what the heck has happened here!
I could not believe it, wondering does this water coming through the window and making all the carpets so wet. Thinking, damn, now I have to spend thousands of dollars fixing this problem; while busy with my thoughts, I hear someone is knocking on our door.
Running towards the door with confusion about who might be at the door in such late time. As soon as I open the door, I realized there are two fire men standing in front of me asking me if I had noticed any water leakage in my unit! Yes, I said. Before any further ado, they had just walked by me and went to every room trying to pin-point where were the wet area.
We shall be back, they said. before they live I asked what is going on.
One of them explained to me,
A guy who lives in an exact unit four floor higher than mine finds a piping problem in the risers going through the evaporators (Fan-Coil) unit to deliver water (cold and warm).
He had calld the management of the building about the problem asked whom he could contact to rectify the problem.
The management had explained to him that the problem is major and must be done by professionals while shouting down of entire facility of boiler and the water supply. He should call the plumber and HVAC specialist to fix the problem. He does so. Apparently, the specialist promises to coming the next morning and fix the problem.
However, in the evening of the day he called and made the appointment he decides to take things in his own hand!!! He had tried to fix the problem without shouting down the water. As he starts the plumbing, he couldn't stop the water. Making the long story short.
That night we were up until 3:30 in the morning as people of the relief disaster department, fire department have come in to stop the water.
According to the management until the next morning they had estimated about $30,000 properties damage!
I have got my carpeting damage and must replace them! My insurance perhaps should sue this guy as well!
So, az we say, SALI KEH Nekost az Baharash Peydast!!:)
3 comments:
Happy 2011 dude ;)
ajab vaghean moteasefam.vali behtare ke khoshbin bashi.
Hi Alireza, sorry to hear that your new year celebrations were a bid hampered by the stress caused by the broken water pipe. I remember from the time we lived in the UK how delicate (not to say weird) the "imperial water installation" system can be. I remember an english friend then gave me the advise to use a slice of their un-eatable white bread, knead it until it gets a tender, smooth pastry and use it as a putty for leaking water pipes. I have to say it works, and to me remained the only sensible usage of british bread. I don"t know how it is in Canada, I guess the water installation system was adopted from the british, but maybe you have more tasty bread over there.
I understand that seeing water floating down the wall, or rising from seemingly nowhere, can really cause mental stress. I even hate it to know that there just a tab dropping slowly. It can cause me a nightmare, but imagine a huge flooding like the current one in Australia would definetly prompt me to leave the place for ever. Water, on the other side, can be so multi-faceted: On the one hand it can develop dramatic distructive power onto solid stuff like rocks, concrete or metal, but on the other side it this the first essential for the development and maintenance of organic life (As Albert Szent-Gyorgiy, the famous biochemist and nobel-prize-winner for discovery of vitamine C onces paraphrased it: Water is life"s mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water).
But without the distructive force of water, we would still have the tower of Babylon and (in case you belief in such myths) a city called Atlantis, and I would not have to replace an iron tube in our house, through which normaly dry wood pellets are transported to the oven, and which cracked after a bid of moist caused the wood pellets to swell and slowly developed a hugh pressure.
But even the destructive power of water might be, on the long term, an important factor for progress and cultural development. There is this interesting theory that the ancient flood happened in real about 8000 years ago in the black sea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_theory). Have a look at W.Ryan and W.Pittmans book "Noahs Flood" (http://www.pbs.org/saf/1207/features/noah.htm) and at Bill Ballards studies published at National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/blacksea/ax/frame.html). The last conclusion was that this deluvian flood caused the spreading of culture and early knowledge about crop farming from the neolithic civilization in the black sea area towards mid and northern Europe and the middle east (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/clihis10k.html).
I think it sheds some new light onto the religious records (like Gilgamesh epic and the old testament, the later of which of course only copy/pasted the deluvian flood myth from the older Gilgamesh), who depicted the rising water solely as punishment of god. Thanks to science, we now start to understand the entire context better.
I hope, Alireza, that the broken water pipe in your house has less long-lasting consequences, and that you managed to rescue all valuables, in particular the persian carpet.
Best greetings Michael
PS: I read yesterday that the youngest son of the late persian Shah, Alireza Pahlevi, commited suicide. It is sad to learn that somebody who was forced to leave its home, live in exil abroad and dies there at such young age. In particular it is sad since there is hope now that the political situation in Iran might change in the not too-far future.
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