Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Slow News Day....

The streets were cordoned off and the prisoners were desperately attempting to elude capture...

well, not exactly...

Our friend Duwayne was working the little backhoe for the electricians and the folks who had come by to mark on the ground had done their deal... but they did it with a certain 'lack of precision'...
Here you can clearly see the yellow line indicating the gas line, well centered in the grass area next to the sidewalk... if you look at the top, right hand side of the picture, just below the edge of the sidewalk, you can see the gas pipe in question... not exactly even 'close' to the line!

Duwayne managed to nick an inch long tear in the plastic pipe, the first one that he's had in 30 years of this sort of fun, and when he heard the hissss...

The electricians were gone in a flash! and people were called and the cops came and asked folks in the homes nearby to grab their pets and wander away for a little while. Then...
The news anchor, one of our neighbors, came and then
the camera guy showed up and the interviews started and the newspaper guy came over with his giant telephoto camera...

While all this was happening, the guys from the gas company dug up the pipe about 10 feet down the line and clamped it off (pretty simple trick with the new soft pipe stuff) and made a repair...
and everyone had coffee and went back to work... but it was on the Channel 6 news 3 or four times that day and in the paper...

We went to a fundraiser for a local councilwoman that evening (or the next) and in the course of everyone giving me a gentle hard time about shutting down the neighborhood, it turns out that there have at least two other gas leaks within a couple of blocks- within a couple of weeks!

Must have beeen a really slooow News Day...

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