the water main break ..

tuesday night we were finishing up dinner at mom and dads .. the kids had gone home with jeff .. i was helping mom clear the table and start dishes ... she went to turn on the water .. and .. no water .. a few minutes later you could hear the back hoe coming down the road .. so i called the water dept and sure enough the lady said .. do you live at grand point .. yes mam i said .. well then you have no water ... they are working on it .. not sure if they will have it fixed by tomorrow she says .. good night .. i relay this information to mom .. and go home ..

by the time i walked home jeff and the kids had gotten in the ranger and gone down the street to investigate what was going on .. and yes .. cash is wearing his new fire man costume and ellie is wearing her new fairy outfit .. at least she has on shoes ..

evidently there was a huge geyser of water squirting up into the air .. the sheriff showed us on his phone .. a pipe underground broke .. someone going down to grand point called it in on their onstar .. onstar called the delaware county sheriff .. he came and checked it out and called the water department .. we tried to do dishes .. no water .. heard the backhoe come down the road .. kids and jeff jump into ranger to follow the back hoe to the muddy mess ..

in case you wondering how it all came about and why we are outside in our halloween costumes looking at the water department dig a hole in the ground instead of packing to leave for saint louis and finishing homework ..

before he could start to dig with the backhoe 2 things had to happen ..

1.. rec had to show up to say that yes indeed the power lines are above the ground and on the other side of the street .. so the very nice rec guy had to get up from dinner at the table with his family .. jump in his very big bucket truck .. drive over to our neck of the woods and indeed confirm what the water dept had told him .. he stayed for a total of 5 minutes .. got back into his big bucket and drove home ..

2 .. the phone company had to come and mark their lines .. they are underground .. the backhoe driver said that he would wait until 8:15 and then he was going to dig .. the water went off at about 7 .. i guess he figured that waiting for over an hour was enough .. it was getting cool and he did not want to sit in his backhoe all night waiting for some guy to mark phone lines ..

the good thing is the water came back on about 9:45 .. i had already done all the laundry for saint louis and we didn't have to much homework .. the bad thing is the kids had to take a bath in the pool .. that was the only water supply we had .. and luckily the water was not to cold .. we didn't wash our hair but we washed our feet for sure ..

i was quite an exciting night .. hanging out with the water department ..