I have seen so many people saying they're not going to pay their rates this year because "the sewer and stormwater drains have failed". Bruh, do you know that we've had around 400% more rain than usual over the past few months? No **** they're going to fail. The networks were designed to handle a 1 in 100 (possibly 1 in 50) year flood in the 1960s, the pipes are undersized and not designed to take the amounts of rain we've had. Not to mention the ground is saturated, the water tables are high af, which is going to cause flooding and overflows. Is it crap that overflows keep happening? Yes of course. I wish we could stop it. But does anyone have a few hundred million (or a couple billion) hanging around to fix the problem? I don't think so. And not paying your rates isn't going to help. And no, we aren't the only city in the country or the world that experiences this so I wish people would stop acting like it's only a local problem.
Tl;dr: I hate people lmao