We were lucky with the weather this week — there was no more rain damage after last Sunday. So yesterday they uncovered the culverts that had been reburied:
They cleaned the culverts that had been plugged:
They used the extra dirt to start filling up the part of the road that had been washed out:
And they replaced a two-foot-diameter culvert with a four-foot one:
If all goes well they will continue working today.
What’s happening in your life?
What’s happening in our life? Utah visiting us from Wisconsin.
I wish that something would!
NOW you’re talkin’ !!! that is a major culvert there.
i hope it works!
maybe you should just pave the ditch with concrete in that area… like you would a swimming pool! at least the water would move through then without restructuring the dirt everywhere! … i think i’m only half joking. this is surely getting expensive. not to mention time consuming!
i’ve been reading reading reading! side-tracked from my escapism list sort of … but still enjoying life. in the A/C!
The five visitors (family) just left. The plumber was here to clear out the pipes. Carly bought a fake poop & set it on the toilet seat which was curved, not like the usual flat seats. It fell in & looked like a flashing was needed. It didn’t make it to the main sewer. Dr. Oz talks about poop & shows fake ones so seemed fine for this comment.
Looks like an edit is needed; flushing instead of flashing.
LOL. bhb.
trusting carly is a child?
Carly is 10. Her mother said she couldn’t buy the poop–not nice. Her father said yes.
A bit chaotic at the moment. So not real clear on what is happening at the moment.
Mike,
Who’s Utah?
Rummuser,
Be careful what you wish for!
tammy,
We’ll see if this weekend’s work helped. It started raining, hard, just before they left. We won’t know until tomorrow how much damage it did. We definitely will not try this approach again next weekend — our pockets are not that deep!
bikehikebabe,
That was a visit you won’t forget. I don’t suppose they offered to pay for the plumber? Even though it was a nuisance it does make a great family story.
Evan.
That sounds interesting, if not necessarily pleasant.
tammy,
“i’ve been reading reading reading! side-tracked from my escapism list sort of … but still enjoying life. in the A/C!” I’m curious about how you’ve been side-tracked, and I’m glad you have the A/C and are enjoying life!
Utah is our grandson, our youngest daughter’s oldest child. We picked him up at the hill billy airport in Little Rock earlier in the week. (hill billy airport = Bill and Hillary Clinton International Airport) Yesterday we dropped him off in Northwest Arkansas so he could visit his dad’s family. We pick him back up next Saturday when we go up for a gathering of my wife’s family.
mike!
i like utah’s name.
strong. unusual but not weird. very nice.
i once had a teacher named minnesota. had to do with a fascinating family story that escapes me now. she was a favorite among us! and NO. she never allowed anyone to call her minnie!
tammyj — Utah is actually his middle name. In his age group, there were a several boys named Ethan when he started school, so it was decided that he would go by Utah instead.
Mike,
Thanks for the explanation. It is an unusual name. I love the idea of the hill billy airport. 🙂 Hopefully Hillary and Bill have a sense of humor.
Well, that’s the sort of thing we don’t have to worry about when we live in a typical city street! No problems with culverts, just litter from schoolkids and badly parked cars!
The big event in our life right now is the continuing heatwave – the longest heatwave for seven years with temperatures up to 30C. Some days my 91 year old mum just finds it too hot to go out of doors.
event happened elsewhere in NZ, a series of earthquakes that affected both sides of Cook Strait: Seddon (small township in South Island) and Wellington (seat of gov’t and 3rd largest city in North Island).
Up here in Auckland, we motor as usual although weather has been moderately better; some rain today but otherwise almost Springlike 🙂
Nick,
Yes, your lifestyle is different from ours!
30° isn’t record heat here. It’s not that unusual in the summer. On the other hand, Washington DC had a series of days where the low temperature didn’t get below 27° at night. It was a lot hotter than here and very humid during the day. The Chicago area was having similar weather. So we’re not complaining about our dry 30° here. We do have a little air conditioner in the living room that we turn on. My guess is you very seldom have the need for A/C?
Cathy,
NZ does have a lot of earthquakes, doesn’t it? It sounds as if your temperatures are comfortable, especially for this time of year.
Jean,
I’m not sure if we have a lot that are truly very big, but I think we are on some significant fault lines. The ones down in Wellington were not as serious as Christchurch; Wellington definitely on a fault line whereas none were originally thought to be through Christchurch at the time of their major damage…
Nice to read international weather directly from your friends.
Cathy,
That’s interesting about the fault lines. Apparently there’s still a lot more to be learned about earthquakes.
bikehikebabe,
I agree!
I just read somewhere, that the fault line that was responsible for Wellington was an unknown – it had something to do with some other fault line though; a kind of add-on. Hence the aftershocks have been multiples plus – apparently that means something significant but I’m no expert 🙂
You must have felt accomplished because there is progress in the project. You need those huge culverts for the roadwork you intend to do.