^^ Well at least the celphone light showed you the boo-gy-man won't lurking in the room.
Check this one out Ven:
At about 8:00 am a fellow at my work told me they had snagged a water service pipe while installing some storm drain pipe. No biggy... or so it seemed.
Due to "pressure zones" the water main could not be turned off. See this main helped lower pressure of the water system nearby. If they kill the water main here pressure will become to high nearby and burst peoples house services down the road a ways.
Gotta fix the leak while the water main was still turned on. Again no big deal... or so it seemed. The water main was made of some of Americas dumbest idea ever. Asbestos cement. Very fragile pipe. And it turned out there was a small crack in it. Little by little the what was a small leak was growing larger until.... the main waterline burst.
Shortly after sundown....
I used my PR-1 on medium to take this photo.
The backhoe bucket over the water spewing stopped it from spraying 50 feet (16m) in the air over traffic during rush hour. Nobody crashed but holy crap, it won't pretty!!
What should have been fixed by lunch time kept me at work until 2:00am.
The car whizzing by... all that water was undercutting the roadway and eventually caused a giant cavern under the pavement. Waterline was fixed by 11 after the county folks finagled pressures to keep things stable while the main was turned off. Then the road had to be fixed.
Between the bill the contractor will get for cops, county workers and the cost of the damages... that little mistake of scraping a pin hole in a pipe could end up being well over $100,000.
Looks like a time when an old boss decided to take 1 more swipe with the bucket when i told him to wait and I would dig it out with a shovel. Idiot pulled a 3/4 service out of an 18" main across the street. He said that wont be to bad. I just laughed and said umm ok. 2 minutes later when the road started caving in...............You and I both know how THAT story ended LOL
Edit: This was on a Friday afternoon about 3pm. Funtimes. NOT.