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Yesterday I was walking home from work. Going down the center of one small residential street with no sidewalks, I noticed that the cracks in the street were a little wet. Then I realised that water was gently flowing out of the cracks. I stopped dead in the center of these cracks. I looked all around, and saw water seeping up out of cracks in the street all around me, and really gushing out of the ground in the grass just beyond the curb. I made a mental note of the address so when I got home I could call the county about the broken water main. I continued walking, and about two driveways later, I noticed the front end of the water running down the gutter, pushing a bunch of tree pollen in its path. I realized that the break had to have occured seconds before I got there for the water to have travelled such a short distance. I turned around, and looked back at the cracks behind me to look at the seeping water again. At this point, the water was shooting up out of the street about a foot into the air. It was pretty cool looking. Like a muddy fountain. I walked home rather briskly and called the county emergency water/sewer line.
This morning, on my way to work, there was a huge, crude patch where the water leak had been. There was mud everywhere. That's got to be a wretched job, standing in a hole full of muddy water trying to fix a broken water main. I bet those guys got paid well though, since it was after hours.
Anyway, I wish I had a camera with me.
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