Be careful what you wish for
I thought Burlington Northern redoing the railbed north of me would be a good thing. Wow, was I ever wrong about that.
Meet the piledriver that’s on a 1.1 second cycle just half a block south of me.
Yes, in so far as piledrivers go, that’s a big one. With all my windows closed it’s louder than my radio. To drown it out I need to turn the music up louder than I ever listen to it, even when drunk on my ass.
This is Day 2. Burlington Northern hasn’t return my calls yet, but the City of St. Paul says they’ve got the noise permits for construction until December. The piledriver specifically is OKed through July 31st, but that’s for quite a stretch of track and hopefully the noise will abate as the piledriver moves down the track.
But seriously, you haven’t lived until you’ve tried writing while a three-story piledriver is doing its thing half a block away.
UPDATE: And now, as suddenly as it appeared, the piledriver is gone. No clue if it will be back or what.
Meanwhile, this in the email from buddy Don.
Don’s son-in-law, Matt Nuttall, btw, is deserving of a long overdue photo credit for the Norm Loserman Day 1xx series that’s been running in the mast since last week.
so you are enjoying your stimulus package?
From the Saint Anthony Park Yahoo Group: To summarize: pile driving starts April 27 and goes through May 22.
The road is closed May 25-May 27 and July 1 through August 20.
Gonna be a long month for you.
Actually, closing Raymond is always a good thing as it forces traffic to reroute. St. Paul’s tragic design flaw is that there are only about five North-South routes from St. Paul to the northern burbs and all five of them carry interstate levels of traffic daily.
Oh God, I’m so sorry. Something like that would drive me to murder.