Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Day 19, 1/19/2011

The Water Wagon drives by on its way to a delivery. 

This truck belongs to one of the vendors who deliver water to homes that don’t have city or well water. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there are a lot of dry cabins up here, as well as homes that can’t dig a well on the property because of permafrost. 

Permafrost can wreak havoc on homeowners in several ways, one being actually heaving the ground under your house up in the winter, and having parts of it sink down in the summer as the ground underneath begins to melt. It also does a number on our road system, keeping construction crews working on patching up the same holes every spring.

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