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Orangeburst said:
Your ticket is not TN, but wanted to share this for TN folks. I ran a red-light recently that has cameras and thought I was to expect a ticket. Looking further the particular direction of my infraction apparently does not have a camera. Anywhoo, I researched it and TN has a law that prohibits collection

Tennessee lawmaker burns traffic camera ticket, urges to ignore them
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I ran through a yellow >>> red light & I saw the "flash" go off that I thought at the time was to record my plate number. I waited for a couple of weeks to get my "ticket" in the mail but never got anything from LE.
 
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hog88 said:
Damn, we’re usual 2-3 hours behind your weather.
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This line of thunderstorms goes all the way down into Texas moving from Arkansas to W.TN area.
Maybe if you're lucky you can miss this storm for now. Jonesboro, Arkansas had a tornado come through their area today & did some heavy damage there.
 
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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
I ran through a yellow >>> red light & I saw the "flash" go off that I thought at the time was to record my plate number. I waited for a couple of weeks to get my "ticket" in the mail but never got anything from LE.
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Last year, I inadvertently got on the I-75 tollway in Atlanta one night at the Marietta ramp coming north. Speaking to a friend and others, apparently it could be more than a year before they send you a ticket. Not sure I buy that but heard it from at least 2-3 people. You would think they would allow out of staters a one time waived infraction. I still had my Texas plates and have changed them out but there is no way they can even forward now as my mail forwarding expired.
 
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AM64 said:
Change of pace - anybody know a reliable service in the Chattanooga area for a problem either in the line to the septic tank - in the septic tank - or field lines?
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Fryers in Soddy Daisy.
Stay away from the franchise guys. They screw up more than they fix.
Scenic city plumbing is good too but you’ll have to wait on them most likely.
What’s the issue?
 
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I got into the makers mark 46 tonight and was listening to music....I mentioned seeing Halford frenching some dude back stage at Starwood Amphitheater back in ‘85-‘86 the other day in The Pub...... this was before he came out. I’m retroactively toasting myself a double.... for the nuclear bomb sized buzz kill I suffered that night.
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I got into the makers mark 46 tonight and was listening to music....I mentioned seeing Halford frenching some dude back stage at Starwood Amphitheater back in ‘85-‘86 the other day in The Pub...... this was before he came out. I’m retroactively toasting myself a double.... for the nuclear bomb sized buzz kill I suffered that night.
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Jealous it wasn't you? 😘
 
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Carl Pickens said:
I got into the makers mark 46 tonight and was listening to music....I mentioned seeing Halford frenching some dude back stage at Starwood Amphitheater back in ‘85-‘86 the other day in The Pub...... this was before he came out. I’m retroactively toasting myself a double.... for the nuclear bomb sized buzz kill I suffered that night.
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I saw them in Nashville at the old auditorium bout the same time period. Halford rode his bike on stage.

Edit: 1984

A List of Concerts from 1963-1999 at Nashville Municipal Auditorium
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Fryers in Soddy Daisy.
Stay away from the franchise guys. They screw up more than they fix.
Scenic city plumbing is good too but you’ll have to wait on them most likely.
What’s the issue?
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Heard gurgling in the downstairs toilet - air bubbling up in the bowl. I took a shower the next day - things seemed OK. That night my wife took a shower and it overflowed downstairs. A flush from upstairs right now does OK, but a shower is too much. No yucky stuff coming up downstairs - just looks like water from the shower - no smell. Appears that either the tank is full - or not draining well through the field line, or the line to the septic tank is partly blocked. As my wife said, forty years was a good run. One thing for sure, a repair spread out over forty years is a lot less than what we'd have paid on our water bill for sewer service. Had to do dishes and the dishwasher uses a pretty small amount of water - more efficient use of water than hand washing; the drain after the first wash was no problem.
 
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Heard gurgling in the downstairs toilet - air bubbling up in the bowl. I took a shower the next day - things seemed OK. That night my wife took a shower and it overflowed downstairs. A flush from upstairs right now does OK, but a shower is too much. No yucky stuff coming up downstairs - just looks like water from the shower - no smell. Appears that either the tank is full - or not draining well through the field line, or the line to the septic tank is partly blocked. As my wife said, forty years was a good run. One thing for sure, a repair spread out over forty years is a lot less than what we'd have paid on our water bill for sewer service. Had to do dishes and the dishwasher uses a pretty small amount of water - more efficient use of water than hand washing; the drain after the first wash was no problem.
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Could be as simple as the ground water/ water table being too high. If things start to improve with less rain, you might be good soon.

I'd suggest, for now, if you have the option, to adapt you washing machine to drain into your yard, or anywhere other than your septic system. probably not as easy to do with your dishwasher though. Check your drainage outside and make sure you don't have a problem near your drain field where water may accumulate.

I guess you should have your tank pumped, but it will fill back up pretty fast, and if your drain field is clogged, you'll be in the same mess. Make sure you have access to the distribution box after they pump the tank so you can observe the output of the tank once it fills back up.

I've tried a few things for clearing up a drain field, but the easiest that quite a few people report success with, and I have had limited success with, is putting about 8 pounds of disolved oxygenated bleach (OxyClean) into the distribution box, every two days or so for a week. It's supposed to feed oxygen to the bacteria in there to help it eat the sludge. Dollar General has a generic OxyClean for about 4 bucks for three pounds if I remember right, I believe Target has a generic too, for around the same price.

I need a new drain field, but have been putting it off, while getting by for now.

Good Luck, I know it sucks
 
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Stew Cook said:
Could be as simple as the ground water/ water table being too high. If things start to improve with less rain, you might be good soon.

I'd suggest, for now, if you have the option, to adapt you washing machine to drain into your yard, or anywhere other than your septic system. probably not as easy to do with your dishwasher though. Check your drainage outside and make sure you don't have a problem near your drain field where water may accumulate.

I guess you should have your tank pumped, but it will fill back up pretty fast, and if your drain field is clogged, you'll be in the same mess. Make sure you have access to the distribution box after they pump the tank so you can observe the output of the tank once it fills back up.

I've tried a few things for clearing up a drain field, but the easiest that quite a few people report success with, and I have had limited success with, is putting about 8 pounds of disolved oxygenated bleach (OxyClean) into the distribution box, every two days or so for a week. It's supposed to feed oxygen to the bacteria in there to help it eat the sludge. Dollar General has a generic OxyClean for about 4 bucks for three pounds if I remember right, I believe Target has a generic too, for around the same price.

I need a new drain field, but have been putting it off, while getting by for now.

Good Luck, I know it sucks
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Thanks, for the info. I mowed Friday, and nothing unusual about the backyard where the field lines are, but I do agree about the rain and water table - I wondered about that. We aren't at the highest point around, but the ground slopes significantly in two directions away from the house and the field lines - doesn't do much for my hopes on the water table. We have a front loading washer - it and the dishwasher are pretty frugal on water - neither dumps a big amount at one time. Just did a load of dishes, and it handled that fine. For the time being, we're in pretty good shape except for showers, so I guess a quick blast to get wet then off for soaping and a fast rinse - not my normal style, but ... We've lived here for forty years, and this is the first problem, so I really can't complain.
 
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AM64 said:
The radar map shows you are mostly clear now - did you do OK?
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Yep. Thanks for asking, AM64. It rained really hard for about 6-10 minutes w/the wind blowing pretty hard.
Once it did that we were in the clear. It didn't do anything more....but move on out towards the TN river.
I looked out a minute ago and to my surprise there's no limbs & debris on the lawn to clean up..
 
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We are absolutely enjoying a blessed day in Mid Tn. Temp is about 70, Sunshine, low humidity, and a light breeze. It is the best weather day of the year so far.
I love Tn weather for about 8 weeks in Spring and 8 weeks in Autumn. Perfection is the only word to describe it. I hope you are able to get out and take it in.
 
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McDad said:
We are absolutely enjoying a blessed day in Mid Tn. Temp is about 70, Sunshine, low humidity, and a light breeze. It is the best weather day of the year so far.
I love Tn weather for about 8 weeks in Spring and 8 weeks in Autumn. Perfection is the only word to describe it. I hope you are able to get out and take it in.
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Great day for a hike.

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Heard gurgling in the downstairs toilet - air bubbling up in the bowl. I took a shower the next day - things seemed OK. That night my wife took a shower and it overflowed downstairs. A flush from upstairs right now does OK, but a shower is too much. No yucky stuff coming up downstairs - just looks like water from the shower - no smell. Appears that either the tank is full - or not draining well through the field line, or the line to the septic tank is partly blocked. As my wife said, forty years was a good run. One thing for sure, a repair spread out over forty years is a lot less than what we'd have paid on our water bill for sewer service. Had to do dishes and the dishwasher uses a pretty small amount of water - more efficient use of water than hand washing; the drain after the first wash was no problem.
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We had a contract on a house on Signal with the exact same issue. Downstairs toilet bubbling when the inspector ran the shower upstairs. The drain pipe is for whatever reason slow and that causes water to flow back up into the bend and pushes the trapped air out of your toilet. It could be as simple as a blocked vent pipe or it could be a clog in the line or a problem with the field lines. We didn't want to take the chance. The homeowners said they had never encountered it, I can't see how. They had the tank pumped in 2019 so it had to have been something else.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
We had a contract on a house on Signal with the exact same issue. Downstairs toilet bubbling when the inspector ran the shower upstairs. The drain pipe is for whatever reason slow and that causes water to flow back up into the bend and pushes the trapped air out of your toilet. It could be as simple as a blocked vent pipe or it could be a clog in the line or a problem with the field lines. We didn't want to take the chance. The homeowners said they had never encountered it, I can't see how. They had the tank pumped in 2019 so it had to have been something else.
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Like Stew Cook said, when it rains as much as it has rained lately, there is no place for the water from the tank to go.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Like Stew Cook said, when it rains as much as it has rained lately, there is no place for the water from the tank to go.
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May very well be but I wasn't interested in buying someone else's problem or having to adjust my behavior when it rained to keep my house unflooded. Our realtor said septic issues are the #1 reason for property lawsuits on Signal.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
We had a contract on a house on Signal with the exact same issue. Downstairs toilet bubbling when the inspector ran the shower upstairs. The drain pipe is for whatever reason slow and that causes water to flow back up into the bend and pushes the trapped air out of your toilet. It could be as simple as a blocked vent pipe or it could be a clog in the line or a problem with the field lines. We didn't want to take the chance. The homeowners said they had never encountered it, I can't see how. They had the tank pumped in 2019 so it had to have been something else.
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Like Stew Cook said, when it rains as much as it has rained lately, there is no place for the water from the tank to go.
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When I first noticed the problem, it was just the gurgling downstairs when my wife was in the shower upstairs - she likes to use a large shower head and handheld shower at the same time - lots of water flow. It got my attention, and I started reading up on it - this was maybe Thursday night. The next day it gurgled during my shower (I use a low flow head - and long showers), and then later overflowed when she took her shower. On Saturday I had her watch while I took a shower and yell if there was a problem - I hadn't been in that long when she yelled. She managed it with a carpet cleaner. I found out this morning that I can do a quick shower - on and soap - then on again for rinse. The fact that it will eventually overflow leads me away from the vent and more to the drain and septic system. So not completely blocked, but definitely slow to drain. So far the front loading washer and dishwasher do OK, but we're limiting that to real necessities. It's a nuisance, but better than when the power goes out - and a lot better than the snowstorm when we lost power and water.
 
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DancingOutlaw said:
May very well be but I wasn't interested in buying someone else's problem or having to adjust my behavior when it rained to keep my house unflooded. Our realtor said septic issues are the #1 reason for property lawsuits on Signal.
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If that is the case, Signal may not be the place to be. I lived up there across from the golf course in 1985.
 
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