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Sunday, 4 August 2019

‘Tornado of poop’: Melrose homes ruined after raw sewage spews from toilets

MELROSE, MASS. (WHDH) - Several Melrose residents were forced to leave their home when an underground blockage caused raw sewage to spew uncontrollably out of toilets in four homes on Thursday.

City workers responding to a call about a possible sewerage blockage on Brazil Street around 9:30 a.m. learned the main sewer line was blocked, resulting in a backup of the entire system, Melrose Mayor Gail Infurna said in a statement.

The bathrooms in four neighborhood homes were left covered in a river of filth and feces when the sewage suddenly poured out without warning.

Siliva Ortiz, who captured video of her toilet overflowing, says the mess has left a rancid stench in her home.

“I was getting ready for work and then I heard a bubble,” she said. “It was a crazy scene. It literally just spun and flowed out.”

SEWAGE BACKUP: People who live on Brazil St in Melrose say the DPW overpresurrized a blocked line which caused sewage to back up in to their homes. The residents say they have to shell out $ for cleanup until insurance covers. One resident caught it all on camera. @7News pic.twitter.com/e3kVWYZH7X

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Photos of the aftermath showed the entire bathroom coated in sewage.

“A tornado of poop started forming and started spewing out,” Ortiz added.

The newly-married Ortiz, who has lived on Brazil Street for four years, also found her wedding dress soaked in the sewage. She says it will likely take weeks to clean and repair her home.

“It destroyed everything. All of the floors, all the walls need to come out,” she said. “The whole bathroom has to be gutted.”

The blockage has since been repaired.

In a statement, Infurna said, “Our top priority right now is the safety and well-being of the residents of Brazil Street. I have directed my staff to assist residents with emergency accommodations and we will continue to monitor the situation closely.”

The city is still working to determine what caused the blockage.

Behold The Destructive Force Of An F5 Poop Tornado

Last Thursday, a “sewer blockage” in the town of Melrose, Massachusetts, had city workers scrambling to restore flow across the town’s entire system. The blockage was eventually cleared, but not before it created what one affected resident described as a “tornado of poop” in her bathroom, after raw sewage exploded from her toilet and immediately rendered her home completely uninhabitable. Let us now gawk together in astonishment at a video of this spectacular scatological phenomenon:

What can you even do when your toilet starts boiling with untreated human feces, and untold gallons of rich poop water begin furiously gushing across your floors? How can you even hope to recover your home, your possessions, your sanity? There isn’t even time to grab your stuff when actual poop is exploding out of your toilet as if from a fire hose. Do you simply run away, leaving it all behind? Do you try to build a hasty flood wall out of your own precious linens? Do you give all the way in, embrace the disaster, and start making snow angels in the filth? Is there even a right answer, here?

Four different Melrose homes on one street were terrorized by the poop tornado, which apart from the devastating psychological damage destroyed walls and floors and turned bathrooms into something out of a horror movie. Sylvia Ortiz, who took the short video of her bathroom being absolutely wrecked by a deluge of her community’s poop, told the Boston Globe “everything is pretty much destroyed” in her home, and described the poop flood as “like molten lava coming out at me.”

Here’s a 7 News Boston segment on the disaster, with more views of the utter devastation wrought on the affected homes. Truly the poop tornado is not the kind of thing you want to go chasing in your storm-mobile.