Compared to some of the streets in Guaymas though it was in pretty good shape so it wasn't looked at by the city for immediate repair. Two of the landlords sons had filled in the ditch left on our street by the water and traffic resumed. The street to the north of us had a very deep ditch dug into the side of it and some people had to jump this ditch to get to their homes and couldn't park their cars there safely.
Roy and I wondered about what would happen when the grader would come as our water supply line from the cities water supply to the house and apartment was lying on top of the road, as you can see in the photo below, it is the blue line. We could see a broken waterline in our future.
Yesterday morning a grader showed up along with a fellow whose job it seemed was to supervise. Our landlord explained to them about the waterline and the grader man very carefully covered it up with no breakage. He certainly is good at manoeuvring his machine.
Working at covering the waterline.
While they were here our landlady asked them to cut down the height of our parking area to the street, so for a small renumeration they did this also.
When they got our street looking good, they headed up the street behind us to survey the damage. After looking at it for awhile they called for a couple of truck loads of gravel and the grader operator proceeded with the repairs.
Apparently they decided that if they cleaned off part of the incline on the hill side of the street it might help the flow of run off in later storms. So the grader proceeded to clean it up a bit, you can see how much he cut the hill beside the road.
Below, one of our neighbors goofing off for the camera.
He did a nice job of cleaning it up and then they were gone for the day leaving a couple of piles of debris to be picked up. This morning a front end loader and truck came along and they proceeded to load up the piles from yesterday.
Result, two streets that look much better and are easier for the cars to drive on. Mission accomplished.
Grader working on cutting the hillside a bit.
