\u201cCan I look in?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
He couldn\u2019t hear me over the sound of the dump truck and started to climb out of the hole.<\/p>\n
I walked closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was wondering if I could look in,\u201d I said loudly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSure,\u201d he said. \u201cHere\u2019s the water main.”<\/p>\n
He was standing in a pit about four feet deep on the east side of the street. His boots were a foot-deep in brown clay-y, ooze-y mud. He poked his shovel in the corner of the pit to show me the water main. I saw nothing but ooze-y, clay-y slop.<\/p>\n
He pointed toward the middle of the street near where last night a guy named Derrick had sprayed bright yellow one-call marks locating the gas lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe water main might be leaking somewhere up there.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA bit more street to dig up,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYep,\u201d he said. \u201cNot sure how far.\u201d And then he glanced quickly up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope you weren’t planning to go to sleep until about 2 or 3am. We\u2019ll be banging out here until then. And we just called in the big trucks.”<\/p>\n
I laughed.<\/p>\n
3.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s 9:40pm now. There has been no crashing. No smashing. No banging. No big trucks.<\/p>\n And the fair and industrious Trudy just announced that the water is back on.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. \u201cCan I look in?\u201d I asked. He couldn\u2019t hear me over the sound of the dump truck and started to climb out of the hole. I walked closer. \u201cI was wondering if I could look in,\u201d I said loudly. \u201cSure,\u201d he said. \u201cHere\u2019s the water main.” He was standing in a pit about four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}