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Originally Posted by 73ss454 The Weather!

Here's a good guideline for selecting a career/retirement location. If you're worried about your sewage freezing & cracking the sewer lines, then you'll probably want to look somewhere else.

New London is one of those special places where not only does the submarine's sewage freeze in the overboard hoses, but sometimes even the salt-water backflush solidifies. (Of course you don't discover this problem until next morning when you try to pump the tanks of the night's accumulation and the hose bursts.) When we started having to add anti-freeze to the saltwater backflush I realized that a change of location would dramatically improve my working conditions.

I've spent too many falls in that area dreading the ensuing winters. And the summers are too full of humidity & mosquitos. My reaction to the BRAC's threat of closing the Navy's New London submarine base was "Thank goodness!" Unfortunately I've just read that's not gonna happen after all... more generations of pain for young nukes.