Uh oh! Do work crews outside your house or on your street scare you?

Oh dear woodpigion that is discrasful! I mean they should have opened up their little maps found out where the water was, Where the gas was etc,etc And no the work crews outside my house usually do the job right maby make a lot of noise but do it righ neverless.

I don't have that problem much as I'm out in the sticks, but we do have power outages alot because of high winds blowing tree branches over to knock down power lines. A lot of people get in accidents on the main road here too, and when they hit one of the poles, that knocks out the power. Last week we had some really bad wind, and trees were down in a lot of places. Our power was out, and I called the electric company who gave an estimate of 2 hours to get it fixed. It took over 5 hours to get the power back. I really hate losing power here, because I can't even run the water without it. It always takes much longer for them to fix than what their estimates are.

I have felt such a pain, we are currently living in a house that had been lived in for the prior two years by a bitter woman who was unhappy she did not get the house in the divorce, now everything is broken and everything is dirty and we had to pull up all the carpet and the house is so big and there is so much wrong that we have been at a crossroads on what to fix first. I finally got cold water in the kitchen where I did have to scald my hands from washing the dishes all day, since the dishwasher was trashed. We got most of the lights working but there are still many that don't turn on, we have to have a electrician come in a replace some switches. We have 1 bathroom working on a full time basis with 5 people to use, we are hoping the other 2 might be up and working soon, but we are waiting for the plumber to come and tell us how that is going to cost. We are currently working on leveling the backyard and getting the sprinklers up and running again, they seemed to have all been broken. I am thinking in a few years this house might be liveable for more than just us and we might be able to invite others over and not be embarrashed. I would love upgrades, but right now I am just looking for something that works right.