Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, that is the definition of Murphy's Law. I think it needs to be revised and updated with this added phrase, "At the most inconvenient time." I would like to add this phrase because that is exactly what happens when things happen to go sideways.
A few years back my furnace fan decided it need to quit working, not only did it quit working, but it did so on one of the coldest days of the year and it was on a Saturday around three in the afternoon. When I discovered the problem it took me a while to understand what was broken and what needed fixing. By the time I came to that conclusion, it was around 6 pm.
As you know if you live out of town on an acreage, most hardware stores close at around 6 pm in small towns, and because it's the weekend most repair services are closed until the following weekday, Monday. Sunday nothing is open, and to get the part I needed I would have to drive to the city and that's what I did, but after multiple hardware stores I soon found out that I had a "rare" model of furnace fan that had to be ordered in. Murphy's friggin law indeed.
Here in the present day we happen to be in the presence of another cold snap, where temperatures can reach from below 30 to 40, add in the fact that we have had more snow this year than we have had in years and we have the perfect recipe for disaster.
I have a little guest house that I use regularly, and it has it's own septic tank and somehow the drain from the house to the tank is frozen, it should be impossible for this to happen. The line should never be full of water, because it only a drain, for when you flush a toilet, have a shower or use the sink. The tank itself is not full, so there can be no backup water filling the line either. I'm perplexed as to how this could have happened, but thanks to Murphy, I have to suit up and go out in the frigid wasteland that is Alberta and deal with poop water. Fun times.
It couldn't be a normal cold day say 10 or 12 below, no it has to be minus 29 with a 20 km an hr wind blowing in an unsheltered area. That is the joy of my New Murphy's Law, "Anything that can happen, will happen, at the most inconvenient time.
Scott Goerz
