From December 26-28 it rained. Constantly. This storm wave ended up dropping between 6-7 inches of rain, and lucky for us, we are far enough east of the Mississippi to avoid the heavy flooding that little towns as little as 7 miles away got. However, heavy rain can also cause the soil to be washed away, and that is what was happening at our apartment building.
I went to go to work on Monday and saw that the City public works had our road closed. It was raining pretty hard and I didn't really look around that much, just got them to move the barrier so I could get out of our complex. At lunch, I saw this post on Facebook:
Great. Another sinkhole. This is the second one that has come up in our building area. Last time, it was in the parking lot across the street from us, this time it was in ours. The fear at this point, is that since our building has a pretty big drop off, the structure might not be sound, depending on the expanse of the sinkhole.
I got home that night ( I had to park up the road and walk in the rain) and decided I would make cookies and take them to the workers having to work all night.
I took them a plate and most of the night we listened to the music of jack hammers and workers yelling at each other as they pull up our street and dig into the hill beside our building. Tuesday, they turned our water off and we were without water all day.
They turned it back on that night around 7:30pm and we were so excited we could use our toilet again! But it was a short-lived victory, as it was turned back off again a few hours later so they could prepare to work on the sewer line. We filled the bathtub that night with the beautifully green-ish water so that we could flush the toilet tomorrow and refill it with a bucket.
I'm glad that they didn't make us evacuate the building, since we didn't really have anywhere else to go and couldn't afford to put ourselves up in a hotel for a week.
Let's add on to being without water with all of the noise. This sinkhole is literally outside our bedroom window. Can't they make any machines that are quieter? I "slept" with earplugs the last three nights and still could hear everything. Last night we heard the soothing sounds of a backhoe scraping up the road and putting the road bits into a dump truck.
So, at this point we haven't slept very well the last three nights and have been without water for two days. To make it even better, last night they knocked out our power and we had no heat to go with our no water or anything else.
Turns out, the sinkhole was not as bad as they initially thought, and it will be fixed by the time we get back..I am welcoming a weekend away for the new year celebrations..maybe we can finally get some sleep! ...nah
Welcome to life, huh? Sometimes, I just have to laugh and remember how blessed we truly are that we had running water, power, and heat to lose in the first place.
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