Um. Right.

[etakyma]

For the past few weeks, my town has been ripping up my street. And now that I am working from home, I am getting the loud noises, the dirt movers, the big trucks literally *shaking* the house with the construction. Not kidding - I have things falling off tables because the vibration is so *there.* The tires on some of these trucks are higher than I am tall. No shit, it's like they're building the Great Wall or something.

This has been going on for a while. Orange cones, big blinking lights, *detour* sign in front of my house. Piles of dirt everywhere.

Today, the town finally caught up with whats really going on and I got a yellow printed NOTICE shoved in my door.

NOTICE: UPCOMING CONSTRUCTION WORK AND DAYTIME ROAD CLOSURE

Um. "Upcoming"?!? Methinks you are a little late. As the notice indicates work will *begin* on April 1 and continue through September 1.

I have the front shovel of a dirt-mover laying about in front of my house behind the detour sign. I have a messy patch all down the street and across my driveway from where they've already put in one new pipe. They just used a massive construction truck to move a pipe with a 3 foot diameter down the street.

I THINK THEY'VE ALREADY BEGUN!!!

Comments

[ksl2025.livejournal.com]

most unusual that they would start early. Construction is usually the sort of thing that is slated to begin on the first and doesn't start until the 30th.

So in the sign guy's defense...LOL...he probably thought this contractor would be like all the others. Hell, he will finish the job on time at this rate too. Betcha he doesn't get hired again.

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

I know, right? So weird! My street could be an advertisement for "nothing ever happens here" usually. And now? Well, I've got the cops directing no traffic ('cause we don't get any) and all these guys in hard hats around (and the vibrations in my house every time a truck goes by are kind of fun, in a "omg the world is gonna end" kinda way).

And now they've cut my water off. It'll come back in a couple of hours, I'm sure, but still.

We knew this construction project was going to happen. There's been town meeting about it, it is posted on the town Web site (so you can track their progress) and the big light information billboards are up at the town recycle station advertising the sewer/water project was going to affect *these* neighborhoods and *these* streets. And since I'm right on the river, it makes sense they would start here and move up. But starting a month early (according to the information notice) is an interesting development.

[conjured-1.livejournal.com]

Cut your damn water with no notice? Nice. I'll trade ya. I'll deal with your noisy, house rattling, messy construction adn you can deal with the Catholic church across the way that is strictly for Mexicans and celebrates EVERY KNOWN Mexican holiday with loud fiesta music, usually starting about midnight of the holiday.

Oh, the joy of modern living.

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

Well, the water came back within about an hour and a half, but now it is all brown with sediment. Yuck. So I've opened the taps to try to clear it out.

I only have a couple of churches in walking distance, and all they do is play music chimes a few times a day. At six pm it is about three minutes of music. I've got a huge population of brazilian people in my town, but they are mostly on the South side and I am on the North...