Hey everyone!! Sorry for the delay in making a new post, I was focusing on studying for my neuro/endo exam. It was quite the marathon...seven weeks of material!! The exam ended up being 170 questions and 4 hours long! So glad it is over. I have been meaning to write this post for a while but just haven't gotten around to it. It tells the tale of a double-wide trailer being moved down my itty-bitty street.
I first realized something was going on outside when I heard a loud ruckus while studying. I looked outside my window and saw the head of a tractor trailer. Now this really surprised me because normally you don't see tractor trailer in Dominica (This might have been the first one I saw). I had no idea why it was outside of my apartment, so of course I go out on my porch for a better look. This is what I saw...
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| The Tractor Trailer |
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| I guess the traffic police? Not really sure...they just did a lot of yelling |
The trailer seemed to make pretty good progress until all of the sudden the "traffic police" realized it might get caught on the low hanging power lines. (I would have thought they would have scoped out the maximum passing height for all obstacles ahead of time but I guess that's not how they do stuff down here...) So the next picture shows their solution to the power lines...remember these are live power lines.
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| Yup a guy sitting on the metal roof with his feet on a metal air-conditioner, lifting the power lines up with a piece of wood. I guess they don't have OSHEA guidelines.... |
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| EEK! It made me so nervous. All I could think was this guy was going to get electrocuted in front of me |
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| He survived! Whew. Thank goodness |
After successfully navigating the power lines, they ran into a new obstacle. They road was not big enough. They were stuck between the Dominican version of a "rock and a hard place" ...aka a french drain that was a foot deep and a shipping container bar (They use old shipping containers to make buildings. Pretty good recycling of resources).
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| Oops they are stuck! (Funny side note..this door leads to my old SGL room) |
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| Beginning to saw. |
Here is a video of them cutting the roof...
Needless to say this was an interesting experience to watch. It would never happen back in the states. My sister and parents got to watch by video-chat and I was entertained by a good 4 hours, watching them try to move 20 feet. They finally got the trailer through and went along their way. They did take down the main gate of campus in order to get the trailer onto the main part. It was kinda of like a runaway train that just knocking everything out of its way.
I think in total they moved 3 trailers and improved a little bit with each subsequent trailer. There was another crazy thing that happened during the trailer ordeal but that is a topic for another blog post (get excited!).
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