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Life’s a ditch… the nightmare result.

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After arguing with state officials for a month and pleading with them to let us fill in our collapsing ditch, this was their answer.

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A veritable Marianas trench at the end of our front lawn.

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It’s huge.

More than twice as wide than it was.

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It’s ugly.

A massive scar on the landscape.

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See the gravel? They were supposed to replace that with dirt and seed it.

They didn’t.

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See the sloping sides on which the temporary mailbox they refused to move sits? They were supposed to build those up so they wouldn’t collapse.

They didn’t.

This is worse than it was before.

A total nightmare.

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40 thoughts on “Life’s a ditch… the nightmare result.”

      1. That sucks!
        The city came out and sawed the sidewalks for new braille curbs. They did the other side of the street then went away. Then, a couple days ago, a new crew sawed up the intersection, around the sewer manholes, for another project. They never came back either.
        In the meantime, a weird bump in the road – 12″ from where the asphalt was dug up for the new curbs, which causes drivers to lose control for a second, has been reported many times but remains ignored.

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      3. Your story reminds me of Winnipeg about 30 or so years ago. The Department of Roads spent 6 weeks at least tearing up the busiest road in Winnipeg, laying a whole new foundation, building it up to last, then paving it with a special winter-resistant pavement. It was beautiful, smooth, an incredible piece of work. Two weeks later the Water Department tore it all up to put in new sewers. Someone had to know new sewers were planned, but the departments did not talk to each other. Millions of dollars were wasted. The replacement road was nowhere near what had already been built.
        And no one at City Hall would say a word.

        Look at the good side, Rg, you still have a mailbox, albeit a temporary one. They could have loaded it on a truck snd taken it away. It was in their way!

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  5. Start a bureaucratic nightmare for them.

    My mom’s neighbor across the street is in her 80s and everyone in the municipal government knows her. 🥴 She writes letters and makes phone calls and leaves messages and emails and pictures and complaints and when they come to talk to her she takes them to show them in person… They can’t reject the 80-year-old taxpayer so they sent some inexperienced young thing who she sends back to the office and says send me the supervisor. 😛

    I don’t know if she ever succeeds but I know they try to avoid her as much as possible. 😀

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      1. ENERGY! Of course you have the energy. Once you start writing the email it will rush in on you. Remember, the more local media you get in the CC area the more likely one or more will pick up your story.

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