On Thursday, May 20th, after a long awaited almost 3 weeks of driving over what some neighbors called our "goat path", Perry county FINALLY came and fixed our road! Ask all the wives on our road, and they will all agree how uneasy it was to pass over on the 7' wide, mushy temporary road. It wasn't going to last us much longer with all the continued rain and use.
The old culverts were in a definite rusty and bad state!
We spent most of the day down there watching all the excitement of dozers and dumping of churt and rocks. Tobias loved all of this! And, I think I enjoyed it just as much as the children!
The culverts or "tiles" were 40 feet long. That in itself was pretty impressive as they picked them up with ease and dropped them into their place.
We lost count of how many loads of churt they dumped
It took them most of the day, but by 4:30pm we were driving across a very improved road! It will remain a bit bummpy until the grader comes out, but we are so thankful!
Other road damage: A month after all the flood damage, we still have to take a long detour on our way to church on Sundays. Hwy. 50 (a state road) that connects Centerville and Columbia is still out. We have not seen the damage, but it must be a bridge that was washed out. Everywhere we go on major roads, we see roads repaired by gravel, we are thankful, but wonder when they will asphalt the repairs.
On Thursday, May 20th, after a long awaited almost 3 weeks of driving over what some neighbors called our "goat path", Perry county FINALLY came and fixed our road! Ask all the wives on our road, and they will all agree how uneasy it was to pass over on the 7' wide, mushy temporary road. It wasn't going to last us much longer with all the continued rain and use.
The old culverts were in a definite rusty and bad state!
We spent most of the day down there watching all the excitement of dozers and dumping of churt and rocks. Tobias loved all of this! And, I think I enjoyed it just as much as the children!
The culverts or "tiles" were 40 feet long. That in itself was pretty impressive as they picked them up with ease and dropped them into their place.
We lost count of how many loads of churt they dumped
It took them most of the day, but by 4:30pm we were driving across a very improved road! It will remain a bit bummpy until the grader comes out, but we are so thankful!
Other road damage: A month after all the flood damage, we still have to take a long detour on our way to church on Sundays. Hwy. 50 (a state road) that connects Centerville and Columbia is still out. We have not seen the damage, but it must be a bridge that was washed out. Everywhere we go on major roads, we see roads repaired by gravel, we are thankful, but wonder when they will asphalt the repairs.
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