road work

Heavy roller smoothing out the new pavement in front of the house around 11 o'clock at night.

There's nothing quite like the drone of heavy machinery rumbling along, beeping while backing up and pounding the pavement into submission to help one fall asleep at night. At times the whole house shakes. I woke up more than once last night due to the road work going on out there. The road didn't look like it was in bad condition before. A smooth new road is always nice. Of course, it takes a while to get to that point, not as long as you might expect, but time nonetheless.

The last two days have seen uneven pavement across the four lanes of the road out front. I think that contributed to an accident a couple of houses down. I heard a little screeching of tire, the sound of (I presume) tires going across a few textures of pavement and then a thud. It wasn't incredibly loud or distinct but it was enough to get me up looking around. I didn't bother going outside to really see the damage but I did manage to see a car parked awkwardly partially on the street and partially off the side from an upstairs window. We live a block away from the emergency vehicle station so their response time was quite good in this instance.