A good night's sleep? A pipe dream.
Last night I was up quite late because about 12' from my condo they were ripping up the street (as in RIGHT outside, just past my very narrow yard). They were jack-hammering away, having started before I got home. At about 11 PM I went out to find out what this was about, and apparently some water pipes had leaked and were flooding the houses across the street, so they were cutting up the road to get at them. They said they would probably be busy for another 2 hours. Unfortunately they were actually working there, very noisily, until well past 3 AM. It was impossible to get to sleep until they were done. I got up an hour later and got in later today as a result. As I was leaving my house I noticed the street where they had cut up the road was slowly flooding. The water was being carried away via drainage, but it seemed to be pumping out faster then it was draining, and this is right outside my condo. Lovely, so the way to fix the leak across the street is to create one right outside my condo. I Spoke to the one guy just sitting there in his truck who said they had to work on this later, as there was a much larger leak elsewhere that the crews were working on. This means (A) I may get home to find my condo flooded and (B) they may be jack-hammering away all night tonight as well in hopes of "fixing" this problem.