Gouranga
Software Engineer
I got a chuckle out of this so I thought I would share. Our city recently decided they would need to dig out my ditch and my neighbors and regrade the whole setup. They really got a LOT more than they counted on. To begin with my one neighbor went insane at the thought of his front yard being dug up, especially when there is NO drainage problem (we had 3 tropical storms go through our subdivision last year and nothing backed up in the slightest). After he annoyed the city council, mayor, engineers office, they gave up on his property. My other neighbor could have cared less until they started digging and big time pulled up his gas main (they are about 6 inches underground in our subdivision.) So after the gas company can in and repaired everything they got going again and within 10 minutes dug up the water main in front of his house. so after another day they finally finished his house. Got to my property, dug up my gas main in the first 5 minutes then my water main. I have never seen a backhoe guy as pissed off in my life. When they finished my ditch I was chatting with him and he told me he had been asked to do a couple other ditches in our subdivision and pretty much told the city what they could do with their ditches. Needless to say the city has since decided it will not be attempting touch another ditch unless they are specifically requested to do so.