An Oops Moment for the Maintenance Guys Today

Roger's doing dinner dishes while I'm doing the journal entry today.   Actually, he does the dishes nine out of ten times!  That's OK by me, for sure.

This morning, though, we had breakfast and I did the dishes while Roger took Maggs out and I put soup ingredients together for the crockpot.  I had lots of water.  No probs.

When I finished, I went in to take my shower and had no water. Rog was back by then and went out to check our lines and discovered that the maintenance crew was working on a water line two sites away and had turned off the water for about an hour.  About that time I looked outside to see the fire hydrant directly across from us gushing water across the street. They had opened it to relieve the pressure on the repair they had made.  They hadn't expected what they got.  The pressure of the water put a big crater in the front of our site and sent gravel and water up onto our cement pad, under the RV, and back behind us for a long ways.  What a mess.  I didn't get a picture of the hydrant in action but only of the aftermath.  Once they got it shut off, we had gravel everywhere.  It truly looked like a cement truck had dumped its load.  

We were concerned about the electric box in the back of the site.  We have a surge protector plugged into the box and it hangs down about 18 inches and then our power cord is plugged into that.  We were afraid that the surge protector was under water although we had not lost power or heard/seen any sparks flying.  We lucked out.  The water was about an inch below the connection of surge protector and power cord.  That would have been pretty ugly had it been any deeper.

A guy showed up with a shovel to get all the gravel off our pad and then Rog went out and hosed it down as there was just this layer of what looked like cement silt everywhere.  It got cleaned up and then the guy came back and filled in the huge hole (see the fresh white fill in front of the power pole) that the water pressure had made in the front of the site.    

Rog had pipe insulation on our water hose because it's been close to, or freezing at night. It was soaked inside as well as out so we got to make a trip to the Lowe's for more and he got to rewrap the water hose this afternoon.   Of course ours was the only site affected and Roger wants to know what we did to deserve so much fun.

We got his glasses mailed off today.  Hopefully, Christina who is our favorite assistant at the doc's office, will pick out a suitable frame for Roger as a replacement.  It will be fun to see what she comes up with.

Can't wait til tomorrow to see what our next adventure will be.