The Department of Transportation (DOT) is "actively working" (you know how these things are) on expanding the main East-West near our house from its current 2 lanes to 6 lanes... Now, this has its own problems (traffic, traffic, traffic) and its own humor value (how many times do you figure they can dig that up?)...

Lately, we've been watching as they put the curbs in - cement curbs about a foot-and-a-half above the current level of the dirt where the road will eventually be... That's right: no road, no rocks, no nothing - just flattened dirt and curbs 18 inches up... (Why? Who knows)...

The fun part is it rained today... So it was good to see that the basic layout of the road for drainage is sound - the water all ran towards the sewer grates... It was bad to see the water then form very large puddles (or small lakes) below the sewer grates, as those grates are part of the curbs, and therefore several inches above the current water line... Ah well - I wonder how long this will set them back?