Last night our beloved municipal sewer system decided that it was time to expand its horizons, to enlarge its kingdom beyond the straight lines of the evacuation pipes. Oh how happy we were to discover at 4am in the morning that our little cellar had been chosen as one of the noble destinations. Floating turds, minced shit, layers of used toilet paper and disposed condoms graceously wrapped themselves around all the objects in the cellar.

We spent the whole day wading through excrements and trying to wash them in an antiseptic way from everything that was worth saving. Sadly Nathalie's Powermac 8500 and my Amiga 1200 were not so lucky and the brown substance covered most of the circuit boards. We decided to dump them instead of trying to wash it all off and being allmost certain that it wouldn't work anymore anyway. An era has thus passed and I'm now left without the computer that so fundamentally changed my life so many years ago. I honestly have to say that I felt a grip on my heart when I tossed the ruined parts on the scrapeyard. I almost bursted in tears, really!

After cleaning for 14 hours we finally got most of the stench out of the house and got everything back into a supportable state again. We however didn't not clean the cellar in perfect detail since it's very possible that the next rain will have the same tasty outcome. Until the mayor decides that the cause is a flaw in their sewer system, they'll probable not do much and just leave us sitting in the shit. Monday we should know more about this and if not, we're preparing with the other neighbours to take legal action.

Below are some links to pictures that show what state the cellar was in after the water had all gone away. Note that this is probably not for the sensitive and easily shocked people, it's quite disgusting : first and second