After work today, I sent Mark down to Safeway to get some fresh bread. As he came in he was yellling
DAD… FIRE HYDRANT… BROKE… WATER… DO SOMETHING
This was the view out the front door.
Some kids had been jumping on the hydrant connection and broke it off. Within 10 minutes of calling the City of Saskatoon water works, the hydrant was shut down (and Avenue E lost their water) and order was restored. Luckily the water sprayed away from the house and I didn’t have to pump out the basement. Still, no one forsaw the probability of kids jumping up and down on a hose a foot off the boulevard?
