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Top Ten Symptoms of SWMM Modelers
The following top ten list
was presented at the International Conference on Stormwater and Urban Water
Systems Modeling held in Toronto on February 21-22, 2008.
Disclaimer: These reasons are
based on the responses provided by the members of the SWMM-USERS discussion
group. Thanks to Michael Gregory for his
contribution to this year’s top-10 list.
I am simply forwarding them without comment. This list has no technical or educational
value; it's intended for entertainment only; and it is not intended to be
offensive to anyone.
10. You consistently
aggravate your trip mates by seeking photo opportunities of unusual hydraulic
structures.
9. You are cursed by
numerical instabilities when calculating an appropriate tip for dinner.
8. "Just one more
calibration run, I swear this is my last!" is frequency emitted from your
cubicle.
7. Your visual
interpretation of landscape features has suffered irreversible damage because
all you see is a series of interconnected conveyance channels and storage
nodes.
6. You believe that
proponents of Rational Method and Manning's equation belong to a separate human
sub-species.
5. Your spell-check does
not even autocorrect misspelled words like swmmsuit, swmming pool, etc.
4. Your took your laptop
but forgot your swmmsuit to a pool party.
3. Your wife thought you
had irritable bowel syndrome when she kept hearing “one more run” from your
home office.
2. You are as fascinated
by manholes as dogs are with fire hydrants.
1. You invited your
in-laws to live in your basement when a SWMM model of your neighborhood showed
basement flooding in your house.
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