hopefully they will let us uproot our trees rather than tearing them down

[bertha katzenengel]

We live next to the neighborhood well house. I learned 15 minutes ago that today they're replacing the pump. Not a big suprise: we have had no water since yesterday.

Part of our land, our front yard, extends out in front of the well house. We planted five crepe myrtles along the ugly chain link in front of the well house, and they're filling in nicely. We also planted redbuds and dogwood in the yard. But the water company has an easement, so we've known we'd have to move the trees.

But on such short notice? I had to call our landscaper. I hated to do so on a work holiday. I hope he gets my message soon and calls me back.

:grr:

[prole_for_peace]

1. you got short notice because they don't care..

i hate tree razing. it is happening a lot here. there are very pretty wooded lots near main streets and when some developer decided to build on them they tear up and down anything there. my office building was built IN the trees. they had to take down the ones right next to where it was going to be and for the parking lots but it isn't all stark and naked like most places.

i think the strip malls and new housing developments would be so much prettier and attractive with some damn trees. big ones not the little decorative ones they plant to replace the beautiful old oaks they ripped up. i would never buy a house in one of those horrible naked hot looking complexes.

and i live in se texas where it gets so hot and they tear down nature's air conditioners and replace them with hot ass cement and asphalt.

sorry for the rant but it just makes me so damn mad

[bertha katzenengel]

2. Makes me mad too, kmlewis. Really mad.

They completed their work and our water started running about half an hour ago. But god, that little POS water company is going to get an earful from me tomorrow.

edit: oh, our landscaper couldn't make it here, but that's moot. The workers dug up one of our crepe myrtles, and manhandled the other trees -- all less than 5 years old -- in order to let a drilling truck through. No one knocked on our door even to say "do you want to do this yourselves?" which tells me the water company didn't even tell the drillers that they were working on an easement -- that the water company did not own the land they were working on. :grr: