What The Lowest Bidder Looks Like

Since March our streets have been dug up by what appears to be the lowest bidder for sewer and water pipe replacement for The City of Santa Rosa.  They have been driving front loaders, dump trucks, tractor trailers with rock, rollers, scrapers and yes, a back hoe at our little corner.  It has been absolute hell.  The windows rattle and the noise if deafening.  The dust is all over the street and coats our house, sidewalks and cars. 

On Friday, they park their equipment all around our wee houses.  Today, I came home to the back hoe parked across the street....

We have asked several times when the job might be completed so that we can have some peace and hopefully, cars not coated with grime and dust but there seem to be as many excuses as neanderthals driving big equipment up and down our streets. 

However, as I know these not so mannerly workers earn quite a bit more than I do these days, it is hard to imagine that they must be at the bottom of the list of bids that the City acquired.  It is a relationship with TerraCon that I would love to end as they seem to think that the front of our house is their play land and their parking space.