Post #52 - Throw Back Thursday

It was a mid-November day in 2003 when I walked outside to check the mail and noticed something wasn't right with the secondary utility pole that borders our property beside the driveway.  

It was leaning over my car.

So I moved my car and called someone.  The pole would totter back and forth between upright and leaning. I hoped that when they arrived that it would be leaning so I didn't look like a froot loop for calling them. 

It was. 

Then it moved back as he approached it.

That's when things really started happening. 

If I remember right, it only took about half an hour for that first truck to get here. Which is mighty quick.

 They unhooked the lines and removed the old pole.

Meanwhile there were several trucks lined up down the street waiting their turn in our driveway. One to dig the new hole, one with the new pole, and a bucket truck to hook up the lines again.

 

All the kids were fascinated by the process. 

This little guy was especially interested in the big trucks lined up out front.

When they backed into the driveway, they were right outside our dining room window. And they never shut off those diesel engines.  

It got pretty fume-y inside the house.

 

Since our electric was off, I had to use the flash on all the inside pictures because it was beginning to get dark.  

And since the electric was off, I didn't have to cook supper. I took a break from picture taking to pick up supper at one of the businesses in town.

Because I was using the flash inside it was still on when I stepped outside to snap the last two pictures. I bet they really appreciated that.  
Or maybe not.

Anyway, they worked until dark to dig the new hole, set the new pole and attach the lines.

And then we had electric again.

And we were mighty appreciative. 

The end.