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by luma 1036 days ago
One interesting thing I learned while in Las Vegas during a major rain storm, a lot of the buildings leak like a sieve. Word was that heavy rain happens so rarely that leaks are rare to present themselves and thus hard to discover and hard to troubleshoot.
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Same with your windshield wipers. You use them so infrequently, you don't notice the rubber disintegrated until the next time you need them.