On the Friday before Memorial Day, we had quite an exciting afternoon around here! I heard a strange noise coming from outside and looked around the corner to see this…
The water main on our corner had burst open and there was water shooting 30 feet in the air like a geyser! It was pretty exciting…and a little scary!
I called 911 and the police and fire were all there within 10 minutes…it took the water company a good 45 to make their appearance. Maxwell thought it was all pretty awesome though…
Within about an hour, they managed to get the water down to just a very small geyser, thank goodness…
Maxwell had gone inside and drawn a picture of the scene which we then took back out to show the policeman. He was very impressed!
Once the water was stopped, the water company worked to fix the busted pipe and that was really exciting! Diggers, jackhammers, trucks…so much to see. Luckily GJ and Daddo got in town just in time to observe it all!
When Spencer got up from his nap, he got to go check it all out too!
In that picture above you can see how the water just dug a trench through our neighbor’s yard across the street. It was like a river running down the street! We were without water until about 7pm but they got it all fixed and patched the street and, by the next morning, you could barely tell anything happened. One bonus of it all? It was a great way to meet a lot of our neighbors because everyone was coming outside to check things out!
Exciting stuff!
It was pretty excited and there was a lot to see – especially for two little boys who love construction trucks!
The water works told me the cause of the failure was due to a baby they found in the pipe.
Inside joke…..