Anna Maria Island where Beth's mom (NaNa) lives is currently the home of an engineering and/or construction project gone bad quickly and I have the pictures to prove it.
When we got here in early May the city was doing a little work at the intersection of 69th St and Marina Drive to improve the drainage. It seemed to me like a pretty simple and quick project, put a bigger drainage pipe under the road, tie it into the pipe that drains into the canal, fill in around the pipe, repave the road and you're done. This was probably a one week project that they somehow managed to turn into at least a three month job that was just recently completed.
Yesterday this project got it's first real test. Not a tropical storm or hurricane but a real heavy rain.
Well, something went wrong! The heavy downpour caused erosion around the pipe which resulted in it popping out of the ground causing more flooding or standing water than I've ever seen at that intersection.
There is more rain on the way today and throughout the week. When we rode by a few minutes ago they now have a backhoe holding the pipe down so the water can drain which I'm sure the homeowners down the street are both appreciative of and befuddled by. I'm sure there is going to be plenty of finger pointing around city hall tomorrow morning.
Thank God these guys weren't in charge of the coliseum, pyramids, Acropolis or Great Wall!
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| If the water rises another three feet that sucker is gonna drain the water like crazy! |
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| They may want to change the children playing sign to a "No Wake Zone" sign! |
