Water and sewer were reconnected today. I imagined a simple connection a few feet below the surface. Na uh. We drove up and the entire street was closed off with a gigantic pile of dirt. On closer inspection, there were multiple holes - the kind that cause buried alive nightmares. The extremely rectangular hole takes up about half the width of the street. Hopefully, the replacement pavement won't bottom out cars as they pass on the street.
One unfortunate fate
We had hoped to save a small, but perky crabapple tree. It survived the demolition, the excavation, and the backfill of the foundation. The utility reconnection was it's undoing...
And one happy outcome
And so closes the saga of the cave-in. With the window well and the backfill finally in place, all is right with the neighbor's sidewalk. It actually is probably a good thing in the end. They had a 1 to 2 foot drop off of their walk before, level ground seems much safer. Now the worst that could happen is tripping, stumbling 5 feet and falling head first into our window well.
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