If all the grand ideas the DUmmies have come up with were actually implemented, America would be a steaming open septic tank.
That reminds me of a news story from northern Ohio, maybe 20 years ago. It was around this time of year, temperature in single digits. An enormously fat woman, on the order of the Las Vegas behemoth except for being ambulatory, walked across her backyard, and her huge weight caused her to crash through the corroded top of her septic tank and the thin layer of soil covering it. She ended up several feet below ground, stuck up to her waist in sewage. Her shouts for help were not loud, coming up from underground through the new hole in her lawn. At any rate, there was no one around to hear her, due to the rural neighborhood, the exceptionally frigid weather, and the fact that she lived alone. So she remained stuck for, it seems to me, at least two or three days before finally being discovered by a visiting relative who happened to notice the caved in spot in the lawn. So rescuers came with some kind of winch, and hauled her back above ground, smelling like bobbolink but otherwise unharmed. In a TV interview, the fire chief was asked how she avoided frostbite over a period of several days, including subzero nights. He said it was due to the natural warmth of the decomposing sewage.
