Drain pipes & gutters or lack thereof...

For some reason, I started this file.

One of these has got to be a drainpipe!

Downtown San Francisco, CA.

Kyoto, Japan.

Straight down no nonsense drainpipe.

Uzès, France.

Looks like the gutter is covered.

Arrowtown, South Island, New Zealand.

Gray, outside of Macon, Georgia.

A bit of aging from seawater on Pier 25, San Francisco, CA.

When it rains that’s going to be a lot of water on the sidewalk for pedestrians to avoid.

Lisboa, Portugal.

Nice to protect the downspout & pedestrians’ feet.

Cittá di Cefalù, Sicily, Italy.

That’s gonna be one wet sidewalk in a rain.

Uzès, France.

Malmgårdsvägen, Stockholm, Sweden.

Malmgårdsvägen, Stockholm, Sweden.

Watch out for wet feet when leaving this house in Miramande -Village classé, France.

Very classy. Terra cotta?

Château de Grignen, France.

No downspout.

Historic Huegenot Street A Nat'l Historic Landmark. Hasbrouck House ca. 1712. New Paltz, NY.

No problem here, right into San Francisco Bay.

Tiburon, CA.

Some very old Federal style? buildings in Greenwich Village, NY. The drainpipe looks very old.

Nice that the drainpipe enters into the sidewalk.

Cittá di Cefalù, Sicily.

At a hotel entrance drive, a submerged drainpipe to keep the feet of guests dry.

Abbazia Santa Anastasia, Castelbuono, Sicily.

Again for the benefit of guests. Nicely done in terra cotta.

Hotel Foresteria Baglio della Luna. Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.

Beautiful copper ending into the wall.

Turin (Torino), Italy.

No worry about people’s feet here in Ustica, Sicily, Italy.

New drain pipe in a very old house.

High Falls, N.Y.

Kentfield, CA.

One drain into the flower bed & two directly out onto the driveway.

Murray Park neighborhood of Larkspur, CA.

Cute in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.

Directly down an old building in Natchez, Mississippi. Jerry Lee Lewis started out in the bar in this building.

This was the first plastic drain pipe that I’ve seen. Probably temporary for the construction.

Turin (Torino), Italy.

Much nicer in copper, even though it dents easily.

Ragusa, Sicily, Italy.

Now that's a long straight drop.

Stockholm, Sweden.

The painted drain to the left goes down two stories & the water reverberation is really loud in our bedroom.

Kentfield, CA

The folks in this Brooklyn Heights brick building I am sure don’t hear the water coming down this drain.

Brookyn, NY.

Now that’s a lot of drainpipes in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sometimes the drain needs some help.

This is the usual type of bend from the gutter.

Balestrand, Norway.

Sometimes a doctor is required like Dave's Rain & Gutter Service,

Kentfield, CA.

Nice bend in a heavy duty pipe.

Saoû, France.

Some tricky bends in Città di Ragusa, Sicily, Italy.

That’s fabulous gutter work around the turret at the Château de Grignen, France.

Pretty & nice copper bends in Siracusa, Sicily, Italy.

Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence, France.

Copper bent to match the architecture on Scenic Drive, Carmel Point, Carmel-By-The-Sea, California.

Heavy duty bends & soldering in Château de Montélimar, France.

Whoops, bad dent. Balestrand, Norway.

They have to keep the snow & ice out of the gutters in the fishing village of Bud, Norway.

San Francisco California’s Chinatown.

Now this becomes intricate. Follow those drain pipes in Kyoto, Japan.

Atop a San Francisco, California Pacific Heights estate.

Wilton, England.

Very cute terra cotta work in Taormina, Sicily, Italy.

Look carefully.

As they say farther north in Minnesota, “Fer cute!” But your shoes can still get wet if you don’t exit carefully during a downpour.

Savannah, Georgia.

I couldn’t resist the graffiti adornment.

Stockholm, Sweden.

On the road from Egg Chebbi Desert to Skoura, Morocco.

No gutters nor drain pipes in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Cape Dutch architecture was designed without roof gutters & drain pipes. The water flows down into strategically located channels.

Guest house at Babylonstoren Farm Hotel, Franschhoek, South Africa.

In Groot Constantia, the portico above the front entrance, in this Cape Dutch estate, protects people at the entrance from the water flow.

Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa.

I guess the living roof absorbs water, to a point. The gutters look like they were installed in a later era.

Oslo, Norway.

Maui, Hawai’i.

Look out below!

Musée Réattu, Arles, France.

It did smell a bit of pee here.

Arles, France.