A big truck backed down the driveway and knocked down the power pole. Wires are in the yard.
Turning off to save batteries.
Most exciting thing to happen 'round here for months 
How’s this for local excitement: A couple of months ago the house across the road where my wife’s friend had lived for forty-five years got sold.
The town sends a letter around the neighbourhood: no objections to a little upgrading, right? New guy wants to renovate the place. Sounds good.
Last week a crew comes in, starts a little work around the place. They take out a few boards, some shingles, toss it all into a dumpster. And they just don’t quit! Now there’s nothing left of the place but a hole in the ground.
Yesterday a huge truck arrived loaded with timber, plywood, and all that.
No objection from me, but it seems like a wee bit more than just a little renovation.
Maybe that was the guy’s way of getting 'round some local regulation, I dunno, but I’m laughing.
We lost power for a few days in the big blizzard storm that recently hit the East coast and it was a cold couple of days and warming up food on the woodstove was getting old yet glad we had it. Do you have battery powered trains Tom? just in case you need a train fix? My only battery powered unit was the MAC Speeder I built for the build challenge and it ran several laps on the indoor loop.
Years ago at my grandfathers house which was on a main road a over height truck went by and took down the wires and tore a chunk of siding off his house. The truck never stopped.
Building permits and requirements vary and depends on where you live. I have seen “renovations” go as far and tearing everything down except one wall to meet the rules. Another case they actually built a house around an existing house. It was funny to look in through the studs and see a complete house sitting there. Once closed in I don’t know if they dismantled the inner house. There are ways to get around everything isn’t there??
Kinda like Tom’s story, we once lost power when one of the local clowns drove his riceburner like an idiot, lost it and took out the power pole at the end of the street, we were in the dark for about 2 hours.
John, your “renovation” story reminds me we had a project out here where the developer building a big condo project was supposed to keep a historic old Victorian house intact until it could be moved off-site, but the construction crews somehow “accidentally” backed a massive bulldozer into it and then “had” to tear down the rest of the house for “safety” reasons, it was all done and over with in a weekend, city building dept people were furious and threatened to pull the permit on the whole project, but the city counsel intervened and only charge the guy a pittance penalty. Goodbye craftsmanship, hello condo.
Sheesh and here I thought most of us were constantly in the dark. About this thing, that thing or any other thing. I guess it’s not as bad as I thought. 
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