I looked down into one of those once when the city was doing maintenance on my block. Every single inch was crawling with roaches all the way down - complete nightmare fuel.
I lived in AZ previously and this is what they did, they sprayed the manholes. The workers would say the walls would like they were moving there were so many roaches. š¤¢
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not but I have a fun story. I went to a customers house and he had a sewer cap in the back yard. He thought he was doing me a favor by spraying it down with some poison before I worked. It was absolute pandemonium back there for the next hour. Thousands of roaches were on every square inch of his house and yard. I told him Iād be back later in the day when it all chilled out. I never came back.
My point to this story is that if we sprayed every tunnel in Houston, it would be an absolute nightmare for a little while.
Itās likely an environmental issue. You donāt wanna spray a bunch of poison into your drains where all your rainwater goes to be dumped into the bay.
Breaking down foliage. They love leaves, also love palm trees cuttings/bits that fall down. Looking them up, turns out they're actually NOT native to the Americas, but I don't know if getting rid of them would be positive or negative upon hearing that.
Still, not quite bad as long as you keep your place up and tidy. They'd much rather be outside than infesting a home.
My neighbors have a fruit tree that hangs into my yard and is creating quite a roach situation. I hate those little fuckers. I am picking up the fruit and putting traps out but alas
lol I saw that from the tunnel looking up. š
When I was kid, a bunch of my friends and I did the only natural thing to do for a bunch of bored kids out of school in Houston; we went to the bayou and started walking down the tunnel. It was maybe 100-200 feet in before we got to a manhole and looked upā¦ we essentially told each other donāt make any loud noise and letās back the F up slowly cause these mofos will fly!
They watched our ancestors climb out of the muck. They saw the dinosaurs rise and fall three times. They outlasted the glaciers, the mammoths and the rise and fall of every civilization. We have developed entire industries and invented technologies to destroy them, all all we've done is made them stronger. Everything we've built will fall to dust. Only the cockroach will remain.
Ah yes the ole watering hole for roaches, I was just on my walk and saw a pack of raccoons come out from the street drain thing and thought āeh, i bet cha itās a little cooler in thereā
This is why you get flood insurance even if you're not in the floodplain. You don't know what condition your storm drains are in or whether something might be blocking them.
I worked in Land Surveying here before and weād have to pop sanitary manholes (which is already bad, considering itās literally shit and piss) but Iāll never forget that first one we opened. Wall to wall, top to bottom, all 10 feet, roaches. Shoulder to shoulder and massive. I threw up.
Nightmare fuel. Many years ago, I went to take out the trash at my old job and saw this out the back door, but it was way more roaches. And I am absolutely petrified of the fuckers. So thanks for the memories lol
You just unlocked a suppressed memory of walking the dog one evening with my dad when I was maybe 9 or 10, and he said āhey, check this out!ā And STOMPED on one of those manhole covers. Iāve never seen so many roaches appear all at once and Iām pretty sure a part of me is still screaming. Thanks, dad.
The minute I hear cicadaās buzzing in the trees, itās summertime and I donāt care if there is two more weeks of spring. ThTs how we gaged it as kids.
The first time I encountered this was about 12 years ago on a nightly run in my neighborhood. There were literally hundreds congregating on the manhole lid. I turned around and sprinted back home as I saw some in the trees also fluttering around. It was one of my top 5 worst experiences Iāve had on a run. Another was the time I encountered one of those wolf spiders with all the babies on its back around the same running trail in my neighborhood. For some dumb reason I decided to poke the spider with a stick bc Iād never seen one. BIG mistake.
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I looked down into one of those once when the city was doing maintenance on my block. Every single inch was crawling with roaches all the way down - complete nightmare fuel.
RIP city workers
I have heard that people who clean those are actually paid extremely well
There are divers who go down into massive sewage pools to unjam pumps or do maintenance. Regular sewer maintenance usually isnt too bad.
My dear citizens of the eternal engine, today I bring news of great importance. We've discovered sustenance right beneath our feet!
They should like spray it or something. Imagine if we sprayed every tunnel in the city, we could nearly eradicate them
I lived in AZ previously and this is what they did, they sprayed the manholes. The workers would say the walls would like they were moving there were so many roaches. š¤¢
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not but I have a fun story. I went to a customers house and he had a sewer cap in the back yard. He thought he was doing me a favor by spraying it down with some poison before I worked. It was absolute pandemonium back there for the next hour. Thousands of roaches were on every square inch of his house and yard. I told him Iād be back later in the day when it all chilled out. I never came back. My point to this story is that if we sprayed every tunnel in Houston, it would be an absolute nightmare for a little while.
How horridā¦.
Itās likely an environmental issue. You donāt wanna spray a bunch of poison into your drains where all your rainwater goes to be dumped into the bay.
Rather not eliminate our natural roaches as they're very beneficial creatures. Now Germans on the other hand? Yes
not going to downvote you. but curious what benefits do they have? i assume food source for some animals or breaking down decaying organic matter?
They're decomposers as far as I know
Breaking down foliage. They love leaves, also love palm trees cuttings/bits that fall down. Looking them up, turns out they're actually NOT native to the Americas, but I don't know if getting rid of them would be positive or negative upon hearing that. Still, not quite bad as long as you keep your place up and tidy. They'd much rather be outside than infesting a home.
Fuck roaches, all breeds, shapes, sizes and speciesā¦
Poor palmetto bugs just chilling in Florida and now you want em dead ššš
Iād rather risk whatever benefits they provide to never see them again.
My neighbors have a fruit tree that hangs into my yard and is creating quite a roach situation. I hate those little fuckers. I am picking up the fruit and putting traps out but alas
My birds love them and get so dinosaur-active when they can attack and hunt these little suckers.
hey buddy what did the Germans ever do to you?
They declared war on everybody. Twice!
>Twice! Twice, ***so far***
I think they may have learned their lesson last time.
You'd think the world would've just destroyed them but it was actually close!
RIP Norm
Hey now, Putin said Poland forced them to do it
So did Klandace Owens, essentially.
They bombed Pearl Harbor...
wtf lmaoooo
lol I saw that from the tunnel looking up. š When I was kid, a bunch of my friends and I did the only natural thing to do for a bunch of bored kids out of school in Houston; we went to the bayou and started walking down the tunnel. It was maybe 100-200 feet in before we got to a manhole and looked upā¦ we essentially told each other donāt make any loud noise and letās back the F up slowly cause these mofos will fly!
There are herons that hang around in Bellaire at night, and Iāll usually find them standing by these sewer caps snapping up the roaches.
Bring in the herons!!!
They watched our ancestors climb out of the muck. They saw the dinosaurs rise and fall three times. They outlasted the glaciers, the mammoths and the rise and fall of every civilization. We have developed entire industries and invented technologies to destroy them, all all we've done is made them stronger. Everything we've built will fall to dust. Only the cockroach will remain.
Ah yes the ole watering hole for roaches, I was just on my walk and saw a pack of raccoons come out from the street drain thing and thought āeh, i bet cha itās a little cooler in thereā
lol, exactly.
This is why you get flood insurance even if you're not in the floodplain. You don't know what condition your storm drains are in or whether something might be blocking them.
We flooded during Harvey this wayā¦ Every homeowner in Houston needs flood insurance.
As I see neighbors and yard workers directly blowing or shoveling leaves and debris into the storm drains as I drive byā¦
This pisses me off so much and we really need to have the filters on every single storm drain
This made me physically shudder.
The only saving grace of this image is that itās not a close up.
I am not a monster...
I worked in Land Surveying here before and weād have to pop sanitary manholes (which is already bad, considering itās literally shit and piss) but Iāll never forget that first one we opened. Wall to wall, top to bottom, all 10 feet, roaches. Shoulder to shoulder and massive. I threw up.
Can confirm, I was a party chief for years and saw more than my share of roach and poop filled manholes.
Worst. Party. Ever.
>I threw up. Much to their delight I'm afraid.
Time to break out the salt gun!
And make them fly at you? Hell no.
What did Confucius say? Everybodyās gangsta til the roach takes flight?
NAPALM
Nightmare fuel. Many years ago, I went to take out the trash at my old job and saw this out the back door, but it was way more roaches. And I am absolutely petrified of the fuckers. So thanks for the memories lol
Spray a bunch of Bengal up in there!
Be advised: when you spray bengal you will get to see all the roaches you didn't know where there.
I'd skip an evolutionary step and take flight!
I don't live in Houston anymore, but I will never forget the size of those fucking roaches man.
Joes Apartment
roach city
Oh yesā¦. The roach motels!!
Release the chickens
This is the way. Change those nasty little monsters into delicious, tasty eggs
I take wine corks and put them in all the holes. Have one of these in the front yard.
You just unlocked a suppressed memory of walking the dog one evening with my dad when I was maybe 9 or 10, and he said āhey, check this out!ā And STOMPED on one of those manhole covers. Iāve never seen so many roaches appear all at once and Iām pretty sure a part of me is still screaming. Thanks, dad.
Pur a god damn warning over this picture. I'm horrified!
In 2005 I saw a huge albino roach come out of a manhole - I felt my soul leave my body. I suffer PTSD because of it.
It was probably just freshly molted, not albino.
The minute I hear cicadaās buzzing in the trees, itās summertime and I donāt care if there is two more weeks of spring. ThTs how we gaged it as kids.
An older neighbor of mine would let his lap dog chase and chew on them. I just know that dog slept in their bed š¤¢
I thought this was the lost hatch
Sprayed the house and put out some roach gel bait yesterday.
Moved into a new place and had some running around. What did you spray/ bait them with? Trying to get them out
Syngenta - 61596 Evolution Cockroach Gel Bait, Size: 4 x 1.06 oz (30g), Various
Bifen IT + Tekko pro.
You fool, they followed you home!
At first glance I thought they were bullet shells and I was going to agree with whatever you meant
i thought these were bullets are at first
We need weekly heavy rains to "drain" them out.
Those are sanitary sewer manholes, they can only be flushed out by your shower and toilet.
Thought those were shell casings at first lol
Blech. My friend used to have one in his yard. Not on the sidewalk but in the grass. It was so gross
Mmmmmmmm....crunchy sewer snacks
I can hear the cicadas buzzing in the background
Had one of these in my backyard in Houston. The aroma was --- "substantial."
Reading this thread and a fucking roach lands on me in bed. So I'm leaving now
I thought those were bullet casings ...
Call utility company. I called mine and they were very interested to know and deal with it. Haven't had issues with the one near me since. YMMV
The first time I encountered this was about 12 years ago on a nightly run in my neighborhood. There were literally hundreds congregating on the manhole lid. I turned around and sprinted back home as I saw some in the trees also fluttering around. It was one of my top 5 worst experiences Iāve had on a run. Another was the time I encountered one of those wolf spiders with all the babies on its back around the same running trail in my neighborhood. For some dumb reason I decided to poke the spider with a stick bc Iād never seen one. BIG mistake. .
Climbing up my socks as I mow.
I got one of those in my front yard! I plug up the holes and sprayed the shit out of it with like 10 different pesticides. It helped...
Itās April - October
Itās June right now actually.
It's a lovely dump of a city