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This happened in my town where the put load dispersing plates down while installing prefab concrete walls for a parking garage. The road surface was undamaged, but the weight crushed the storm and water pipes under the road that later caused the road to collapse lol
Fuck me what a fuck up that must have been
In the end it was alright, turns out the city still has asbestos and wood pipes under the street and the calculations were for concrete and steel.
So that incident got them to finally replace them.
Another incident a street over and only a month or so later took out the landlines of every AT&T customer for the whole region. A small Fiber to the Home ISP was installing underground cable and hit the splice room with their boring machine. No one told them that the utilities under our town are all run through a large tunnel network and not 3" conduit. Which to be fair, doesn't make sense because the "town" is a single street and has a population of like 6000, but there is indeed and underground tunnel network that was used during prohibition.
So some poor sap had to sit in a hole in the road for 5 days manually re soldering phone lines.
Your town sounds pretty cool heh
It would be if it wasn't just boomer retirement town now. Beautiful area, but average age here is like 53 or something.
Lots of cool people though, we have a commie town councilwoman who got elected last year. The young folks all know each other and hang out all the time. Also surprising concentration of both young and old LGBT couples here. We have a bunch of older lesbians that ride up and down main street at the end of every pride month in their big trucks waving pride flags and shouting down bigots lol.