It's not raining right now, but there is a gentle river flowing down the street in front of our house.
The reason for this? Apparently a water main broke. The same water main that broke last year and would mildly flood the street. They fixed it that time by patching over the crack in the street where the water came out. I'm sure it was more technical than that, but this is the answer I'm most comfortable with so let's go with it, shall we?
When my dad got home from work tonight he said that water was coming up out of the street by our driveway. Soon it was flowing more heavily, and then little geysers of water started to sprout out of cracks in the patch they'd put over the original leak last year.
Eventually, enough water was flowing to push up the concrete and make an actual bubble in the street.
At some point, a city worker came out, walked around the leaks, and put two cones over the patch in the road. Way to go, guy!
Right now, four hours after the leak originally started (we think), some more city workers are out there working on it. They'll probably just patch it again and again until it starts leaking so badly that we have a huge sinkhole in the middle of the road, which will keep expanding until all of the neighboring houses are sucked deep within the earth.
What an adventure that will be.
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