As long as it’s not snow
A lot of umbrellas were abandoned in Chicago today.
When it rains like it did today, I just walk in the rain, sans umbrella. I am that person you always see, looking pathetic, with their umbrella inside-out. There is really no point for me to even bother. I’d just as well get wet.
And… because I can’t help but post these photos, check out the “pothole” my parents encountered when they arrived home from work today.
Is it still called a pothole when it is this BIG? The view of this photo is coming away from my parent’s house – they have to cross this bridge each day to get anywhere – there is no other way into their home (our their one, sole neighboring house).
The barricades were not up when they got home. Apparently, my mother “went to the town hall immediately to tell them about their pothole EMERGENCY.” So the police came out and set up the barricades.
It’s always fun when my mom calls me, all excited, to tell me a story like this. She is so animated.
According to my mother, the pothole is the width of a car, by 3′-0″ lengthwise. She also said it is over 4′-0″ deep. Hmm, judging from the photo, I don’t think my dad is that tall… unless he is standing on a ladder or something?
Anyway, can you imagine driving home in the dark and not seeing that thing? Whoops…
Themocracy
We had a giant pothole like that in our town too. It closed the bridge for several months while the city tried to figure out what to do. 🙂
WTF?! Wow, that’s serious. I think that’s just a pot. Not a pothole.
ajooja – Several months? Wtf is up with that?
Cat. – Hee hee. Why are they called “potholes” anyway?
Dad was standing on a ladder…. I wish I could have seen it in person!
Christina – So mom isn’t crazy, after all! Just kidding, I never thought she was crazy 😉
No, I am just standing in the hole, not on the ladder. It was about 3.5-4″ deep. What you can’t see is that the part of the road which hasn’t fallen in didn’t really have much of anything underneath it.
Oh my gosh….that’s crazy!!!! I’ve never seen a larger “pothole” in my life!
That’s definitely a straight-up hole. Yikes! I had a few near misses with maybe 1′ diameter, ~1′ deep today but nothing like that. Even when part of my street’s bridge collapsed, it was just along its edge.
If your dad’s about 6′ tall, then 3.5′ deep looks about right.
Ok, I’m just cracking up that your dad climbed into the pothole for the picture. 😉
Holy kraut! That’s no pothole, that’s a sink hole!
Yikes! That is HUGE! We had a hole like that in our YARD over the summer. The village came and filled it in, but it still looks a little low to me. We are going to work on that when it stops raining just to be sure we don’t lose any kids in it.
OMG – what a hole! Since the highway I normally take to get to work is under severe construction now, I’m limited to side roads. One of which is also under serious construction. And the limited part of the road we are allowed to drive on is in seriously bad shape. Every day, the potholes get worse. Another reason why I shouldn’t drive to work in the dark … or get a job in the city!
I think the hole was 4 feet deep, I wouldn’t let your Dad stand in the middle where it was the deepest. I was afraid the hole might suck him up.
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Uh huh, sure mom! *wink* That’s a horrible pothole. Lucky nobody got hurt!