My brother comes home and says there's something going on up on Broad St, the main road that goes by my neighborhood. He leaves again. A little while later, I hear a helicopter, a constant drone like he's hovering. It goes on for 10 minutes and finally I decide I want to go take a look.
The end of my street is practically at a traffic light controlled T-shaped intersection. Two police cars are blocking Broad Street off, diverting people to the left turn at the intersection. On Broad Street were a good half dozen fire engines, about a dozen trucks from the gas utility. I find out there was a major gas leak. The road is closed to pedestrian traffic as well so I walked down one of the side streets to the other end of our neighborhood. There's water running in the street, I would guess to keep the drains from building up gas. I get to the other end of our neighborhood and the smell of gas is quite strong. They're digging a hole right in the middle of the first intersection that connects to us.
I was planning on taking a bus downtown to transfer to another bus to go to a neighboring town, where I would be close enough to walk to my chiropractor appointment. I can't afford to Uber there and back, it's almost 50 dollars. Plus if I tried to Uber, I doubt if their guidance software can handle the road closures. I mean it's a clusterfuck out there right now. There should be a lot more detour signs. I got people barreling up my street at 40-50 mph (in a residential 25 mph zone) only to get to the end and find they can't go that way, either. I get that they're frustrated but that doesn't excuse their driving fast like that.
Well, if we all blow up, it'll be in the news and that'll explain why I stopped posting anymo&({V+(>> carrier lost