July 1, 2013

There are a lot of gas wells being drilled here now.  There are big trucks, mostly large dump trucks, going by constantly, some going really fast.  This was one of the 'oversized loads'.  The berm is barely a foot wide before the hill drops off sharply on both sides at this point.  A couple of days after this, a super oversized load met two dump trucks here.  They took about 10 minutes backing up, finding a spot for one to stop and others to pass. Also later in the week, the kids started pumping their arms to get the trucks to honk.  At first I thought maybe they shouldn't 'distract' the trucks, but then realized that all the trucks were honking, which meant they saw and knew kids were around, and they seemed to slow down quite a lot after Monday.