Andy spent yesterday uncovering three more culverts — he found them by their stakes. He has one more to do tomorrow, and even the stake is buried for that one. He’ll have to poke around looking for it.
Even though he didn’t take another picture, he finished uncovering the culvert.
Here’s what the road looked like upstream of another of the blocked culverts.
And here’s what it looked like downstream.
As you can see, the damage isn’t that bad. But the ditches are partially filled and if we get another gully washer we will have more problems, but not as much as if he had done nothing.
Even if we don’t have more damage this year, he plans to have Orlando come up later to fix the road so he can plow this winter. When he does he’ll have Orlando fix the ditches.
We had to do periodic roadwork even before the fire, but not nearly as much!
July 18, 2014
Andy must be the fittest man around your neighbourhood!
He’s not doing too badly for 79 years old. 🙂
Sounds like an awful lot of work to keep the roads in decent condition. Suddenly I’m glad I have a regular tarmac road outside my house! Though I guess the fantastic scenery compensates for all the road-work….
I’m with you, I wouldn’t like to fix the roads myself. He does love it up there, even though all the trees burned down. As you said, the views are great.
It’s amazing how much fires change water flow. We’ve learned about that the hard way here in the Front Range of Colorado. It sounds like you’re learning about it too. So sorry that Andy has to do all that work.
I too wish it weren’t so much work for him. But he does seem to be happy, and that’s all I care about.