There Must Be A Narrow Age Range For Storm Drain Tunnel Exploration

There must be a narrow age range for storm drain tunnel exploration. You know, the tunnels that connect the storm grates on the street eventually to creeks and rivers. Not sewage, just storm runoff. You have to have them or you’d flood when it rained, and cities with rivers or creeks going through even more so. You can get some fascinating networks of these in a city (I’ve seen cement tubes twelve feet in diameter or so, small old ones made of brick, corrugated steel covered in tar, living cave formations, and more), if you’re into that sort of thing, which I am.

When you’re under a certain age though, exploration can be difficult. I’ve run into tunnels so long that I couldn’t get away from my parents long enough to explore them fully. I’ve had cops called on me because people worried about kids getting stuck under grates and note being able to get out. I’m old enough now though. I could get to any one I want and explore as long as I want. Right?

Yeah…imagine if the cops found a forty year old guy crawling around a storm drain tunnel? I don’t think that would go well. I think there’s a narrow range for this when you can do what you want without coming off really creepy.

I’m past that, I believe.