{"id":34787,"date":"2025-10-05T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34787"},"modified":"2025-10-05T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:06:39","slug":"danger-construction-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34787","title":{"rendered":"Danger, Construction Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier in the summer, the property management announced that roofing crews would be on site in August.  The announced schedule never matched up with when they were actually here, though.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34623\">They were here in August<\/a>, then some September dates were given, and the September dates didn&#8217;t happen, then they were back week before last, and then they returned this week on Thursday and Friday to work on my building and the adjacent building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine my joy to open my front door Thursday morning to the site of a crane parked in my front yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251002_092544132.jpg\" alt=\"It's a crane! In my yard!\" class=\"wp-image-34778\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The crew, which includes several young Amish men, was tearing stuff off the roof and tossing it down out in front of my apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251002_093016823-1200x720.jpg\" alt=\"Stuff from off the roof. I have no idea.\" class=\"wp-image-34780\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And they had a palette of wooden beams onto which the metal roofing was going to be attached ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251002_093021735.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden planks, suspended in the air!\" class=\"wp-image-34781\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided the best thing to do was to get the hell out of Dodge for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday morning, while my building wasn&#8217;t done&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251003_081149882.jpg\" alt=\"My building, showing the wooden planking and no metal roof\" class=\"wp-image-34784\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;they were working on the building adjacent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251003_081132931.jpg\" alt=\"View of the next building, with cranes and work trucks\" class=\"wp-image-34782\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They were hard at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251003_103537948.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34785\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And they seemed to be making good progress throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251003_133850300.jpg\" alt=\"The work crew, working on the back side of the building adjacent\" class=\"wp-image-34786\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They did not complete their work on Friday &#8212; the overhands still need to be finished &#8212; and as they left the crane and some other work vehicles on site, I assume they will be back on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acorns have been falling for about two weeks, and they make a definite <em>pling!<\/em> sound when they hit the metal roofs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the summer, the property management announced that roofing crews would be on site in August. The announced schedule never matched up with when they were actually here, though. They were here in August, then some September dates were given, and the September dates didn&#8217;t happen, then they were back week before last, and<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34787\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Danger, Construction Zone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}