More Excitement On My Street

Today I was on the phone and just then I started hearing jackhammering. It looked out the window and there were two guys who had marked out a space on the asphalt street just across the alley from my house. A little while later there was a backhoe with a jackhammer on the end (never seen that before) and they were digging a hole where they had marked it earlier. After a while it got quiet, so I looked out again. One of the men was down in the hole they had dug about 4 feet deep.

Some time later I heard noise and when I looked out I saw several trucks, a bunch of men and a huge spray of water about 50 feet high, mostly aimed at the house across the street.

Woo hoo!

Some time later I went out to exercise at the gym and they had the street blocked off with trucks and men everywhere and the water spray was still going.

When I came back I came in from the other end of the street and parked in front of my house (behind some trucks from the water company). I saw a guy who looked happy to talk and asked him what was going on (all innocent like). He explained they had hit the water line and maybe the gas line and both might be off. Hmmm, I just checked and my water is running. Maybe it's from the water tank, but there's pressure you don't usually get unless the main line coming into the house is going. They're still out there making noise, so there must be something yet to fix.

I looked up to see if the water was still going and saw ice hanging from the power or phone lines overhead. It was surreal. Where the men had dug the hole there appeared to be snow and we don't have snow on the ground (haven't for days).

I may have to update this article later, but for now it's a mess with the road blocked and noise and who knows what.

This is excitement in my part of the world.  :-)