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I don't know what's going on with that road. I feel like I can't trust my senses anymore.
Sunday was the rumbling in the distance and trucks driving by, but me not able to see what was going on.
Monday morning was the horribly strong vibrations and trucks working on the road near my house. I saw brown dirt under the part of the road that the sheep foot roller was rolling over. The big truck that presumably was tearing up and grinding the old road was ahead of the roller. This was on the far lane from my house.
Since then, I've avoided driving on that road as I don't want to drive over a bunch of gravel, especially as it is a steep hilly road. I've driven down other side streets instead. My house is on a corner, so I can do that.
Monday night, it was dark outside when I got home. It looked like my side of the road hadn't been worked on yet. The center yellow lines were still there - they hadn't been ground up.
Tuesday morning when I woke up and looked outside, the trucks were parked near my house, but no noise was being made; no rumbling. Yet my side of the road looked like it had been ground up. Could I have slept straight through them working, and all the rumbling and vibrations?
Tuesday night, again dark outside when I got home, the road looked the same as it had in the morning. When I walked to the mailbox, I could see some grey powder on the edge of the grass by the road, and the road smelled like cement powder. I wondered if they had mixed concrete powder into the ground up asphalt, and if they were letting it settle.
This morning I saw no trucks; I don't think any work was done today.
This evening, again dark outside when I got home, the road no longer looks chewed up. Looking at it closely and walking on it, it looks like only a top layer of asphalt was chewed up, and that the bottom layer was left. The yellow center lines are somewhat higher than the lanes on both sides. But how can that be, when I saw dirt the other days? Surely that sheet foot roller wouldn't be used on hard pavement? Aren't the sheep feet meant for compacting dirt?
Maybe what looks like old pavement is really new pavement? Or a new sub-layer for the new pavement. I don't know. I hope this isn't the final product.
But why would they have left the center yellow lines, instead of grinding them up too? Makes no sense to me.
Sunday was the rumbling in the distance and trucks driving by, but me not able to see what was going on.
Monday morning was the horribly strong vibrations and trucks working on the road near my house. I saw brown dirt under the part of the road that the sheep foot roller was rolling over. The big truck that presumably was tearing up and grinding the old road was ahead of the roller. This was on the far lane from my house.
Since then, I've avoided driving on that road as I don't want to drive over a bunch of gravel, especially as it is a steep hilly road. I've driven down other side streets instead. My house is on a corner, so I can do that.
Monday night, it was dark outside when I got home. It looked like my side of the road hadn't been worked on yet. The center yellow lines were still there - they hadn't been ground up.
Tuesday morning when I woke up and looked outside, the trucks were parked near my house, but no noise was being made; no rumbling. Yet my side of the road looked like it had been ground up. Could I have slept straight through them working, and all the rumbling and vibrations?
Tuesday night, again dark outside when I got home, the road looked the same as it had in the morning. When I walked to the mailbox, I could see some grey powder on the edge of the grass by the road, and the road smelled like cement powder. I wondered if they had mixed concrete powder into the ground up asphalt, and if they were letting it settle.
This morning I saw no trucks; I don't think any work was done today.
This evening, again dark outside when I got home, the road no longer looks chewed up. Looking at it closely and walking on it, it looks like only a top layer of asphalt was chewed up, and that the bottom layer was left. The yellow center lines are somewhat higher than the lanes on both sides. But how can that be, when I saw dirt the other days? Surely that sheet foot roller wouldn't be used on hard pavement? Aren't the sheep feet meant for compacting dirt?
Maybe what looks like old pavement is really new pavement? Or a new sub-layer for the new pavement. I don't know. I hope this isn't the final product.
But why would they have left the center yellow lines, instead of grinding them up too? Makes no sense to me.