Road construction outside our house started in earnest today, and they did not mess around. The backhoe had not been there fifteen minutes before half the road in front of our house was rubble. It took them longer to get it off the truck than it did to destroy a large portion of road that had laid there for more than 50 years.

By the time I returned home from work this evening, it was too dark to photograph, but it appeared the blacktop was entirely gone. I parked around the corner and walked to the driveway, not noticing that that the first five feet of our drive way also had been removed. Nearly fell on my face.

Next step is to lower the street in front of our house by 11 inches. Once they do that, I think I’ll stop trying to get up the driveway in the dark.