It’s late, the computer is low on charge, and I’m tired. But here’s a bit more information on how mobbers mob in Albany, California. Last night I went to sleep in a part of the house where I don’t usually sleep these days, and where I was not elevated from the floor on a traditional bed frame. In recent posts I described waking to the sound of a plumbing snake, and waking to the sound of the house water shutoff being opened to support some living-off-the-land exploit. With the main breaker shut down through the night, other methods of creating currents to transport pressure (sound) waves come to the fore. Some of these are increasingly dirty, like the use of the gas line that I had Pacific Gas and Electric shut down. Then there’s the determined use of propane fumes or vented gases from next door that might come through the sewer lateral, be channeled through trenches dug on the other side of fences through the irrigation system my mother installed in the side yard, or be pumped in after the point of demarcation and from an underground generator on the lot of the lowlife house.
In the early morning hours, the shock of what was probably pressurized air beneath the floor boards jolted me awake. There was one pulse, and then several more scattered within a small area. It was about 6:20am. There’ve been a few times as of late when I went down to the basement in the morning and looked for broken pipes. The velocity of the pulse reminded me of plumbing tools that shoot water at high pressure into pipes to break up blockages, tools that sometimes break pipes. It reminded me of the force of air from a compressor.
What was beneath the floor boards was one of those old metal heating vents running under the room to the register. There are a few pipes within feet, but given the sensation of an expanding vessel and the changing location of the pulsing, the event likely occurred in a large metal duct that runs the length of the room. The vent is exposed downstairs in the basement, painted over and tucked between crossbeams. Only recently did I understand what it was. In recent posts I talked about trying to disconnect some of the duct work from the furnace around the time I had the natural gas service to the house disconnected. But the old metal venting is built more into the floor, and removing them is more involved so, for the time being, they remain.
When mobbers attack with water, when they aerosolize the acrid exudate of their generators to scorch your breathways, when they inject dirty electricity into your walls to interfere with household power, or when they try to break your pipes with water fast and hard, consider those old metal vents and how mobbers might access them.
