Washington D.C. Metblogs » watermain http://dc.metblogs.com Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:31:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Watermain Break in Bullet Points http://dc.metblogs.com/2009/05/11/watermain-break-in-bullet-points/ http://dc.metblogs.com/2009/05/11/watermain-break-in-bullet-points/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 02:45:37 +0000 tonigm http://dc.metblogs.com/?p=8676
  • If you have to have a huge underground pipe break in your neighborhood, a warm spring morning is not the worst day for it.  If you live below grade, it’s still pretty traumatic.
  • I didn’t know pavement could do that.
  • The overall response from the City workers was great; the sad thing is that they’ve done this so often that they have it all down pat.   I wanted to kiss them for working through the 4-hour downpour that evening that I’m sure kept it from getting any worse.
  • The contractors were out in force; we had 3 business cards for specialists in water damage in our mail slot within 8 hours. 
  • Now I know what rush hour sounds like without traffic on Florida Avenue.   And that articulated Metro buses can back up very, very long distances.   
  • Life goes back to normal pretty quickly, all things considered.   Until the next one breaks…
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