Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Temporary traffic light down at Houston and Norfolk

Well, that was a helluva 10-minute storm...

A reader delivers this report:

That quick storm that blew through the neighborhood tonight knocked down a huge temporary traffic light/street lamp pole and attached wires on Houston St in front of the Red Square building. DOT has been doing work here as part of the Houston St construction project and put up these temporary light poles a couple of months ago. As usual, looks like they went with the cheapest contractor and subsequently got shoddy, unsafe work. You can see the knocked over pole in the middle of the pictures. It looks like it wasn't secured to anything, and the concrete base was blown right over by the wind from the storm. The gold SUV across the street swerved to miss the falling wires and hit another pole, but shortly after drove away. Luckily no one else was hurt.





So will workers just prop the pole back up and leave it to fall over again the next time a thunderstorm rolls through?
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 9:36 PM

    Grieve, I haven't seen many posts about mosaic man lately, how is he doing? Does he have a roof? Been down in VA for a minute, but try to look in every so often...

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  2. EV GrieveJuly 13, 2011 at 9:41 PM

    Far as I know he's doing OK... he is on Facebook and Twitter now... he sent me a hello the other day.

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  3. nygrumpJuly 14, 2011 at 9:32 AM

    He was working at 2nd at St Marks earlier this week - or trying to work, so many people were thanking him and praising him...

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  4. EJuly 14, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    Sure enough, they propped it right back up, ready to fall again when the wind picks up. Asked Susan Stetzer to look into this. Thanks for the advice!

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  5. glammaJuly 14, 2011 at 11:58 AM

    holy cr@p. this seems incredibly dangerous.

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