Tom
[ 29 May 2001: Message edited by: 2K1SunsetSS ]
Have a great day and lets get on with show!
O.K. with you 'Bo? 
The little yellow thing in the sky has made an appearance thi am
It's about friggin time!
Sun is shining .. not a cloud to be seen.
Got the shift light (thanks Hawkeye) and ASR reverser installed last night. Was also able to rebolt the front latch on the convertible top without undoing any fabric ... that was a relief ... and saved a trip to the dealer
Have a great day, eh!!
of course the sun is out first thing after a gloomy weekend 
We had one heck of a weekend with our construction......
Pick a utility. Any utility......and that's what we hit. (Yes we did a locate prior to digging). Had a visit from the Fire Dept. twice, Police once (neighbor complained about the backhoe on Saturday morning. It was 7 a.m. and we're allowed to start at 6 a.m., so it wasn't a big deal).............and so on and so on and so on.
Found the water line on Friday night...the hard way. Luckily, we already had the water off, so all we had to do was splice a patch in.
Due to the electrical conduit not being in the same line in one area of the trench as the phone/cable conduit, Steve barely caught it w/the backhoe during a clean-out sweep and looped the secondary. It fried our new 200 amp service AND the transformer. Thank goodness Steve didn't take a jolt. The casing of the wire didn't even get damaged...it was just tugged out of the box and shorted out, causing the damage.
The Natural Gas line ran for an hour until someone could come cap it. That was knicked while feeling for it with a shovel. Even the guy who came to repair it knicked it. The line is softer than the dirt around it.
Steve's at home right now trying to get sewer hooked up......the septic tank collapsed on Saturday. We had it all marked as to where NOT to drive the backhoe. Unfortunately, we only marked the end of it where the lid is. The back tire of the backhoe found the other end of the tank where it exits into the drainfield, and now we have big hole with a puddle. We spent all day yesterday digging a trench under our house for the new sewer.
Etc, etc, etc.................
So, we're going to the grocery store down the road a couple of miles to use the rest room. We're showering at the County building where I work, and doing a lot of BBQ'ing.
The electrical was restored about 5 hours after it was taken out. A very fast response time for the repair crew considering it was a Sunday on a Holiday weekend. Of course, it was just as the Coca-Cola 600 was starting......so I missed that!
I left for work this morning while the gas crew was getting the gas back on (out for 2 days).
The City Plumbing Inspector is at the house w/Steve right now looking at our new sewer layout.
At least nothing else can go wrong.
I'll have pics of everything uploaded later this week.
With everyone we've asked and talked to about this, no one has said anything about it. UGH. Why is it always after the fact?
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Originally posted by HTWLSS:
At least nothing else can go wrong.
Wanna bet?!? 
But I sure hope nothing else does go wrong!!
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Originally posted by poSSum:
Wanna bet?!?
THANKS!
It's really surprising that all of the utilities were off - I thought they were supposed to be on the ball with these things.
Expensive mistakes, but at least we're learning by them.
Good thing is we're now hooked up to sewer and can now shower at home. Steve worked his butt off to get us hooked up before bedtime. He's exhausted.
