Lost Gravel Truck and A T & T

Weird title? Remember the little post about the telephone pedestal being under water, how I had no phone service, poor pitiful me. I felt like there was no need to call the phone company while the water was high, (by the way DRY HIGHWAY!!) anywho...The pedestal is now dry so I call the phone company. After punching the right numbers and pound signs, 20 minutes of lovely music, not remember a password that I set up 15 years ago, finally I talk with a HUMAN. Mrs. Butler, we'll send someone out right away!

Telephone guy calls at lunch...Mrs. Butler, I was prepared for a wet pedestal, I get here and its dry. (Imagine that with all the water) He said that he believed me, but that he had run the test and it showed a "raw line". Which he said means that there has never been service hook up at that site....BUT I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 10 YEARS AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD A PHONE! He needs to do more testing.

In the meantime, I call Tim and tell him what was said. He reminded me that a "lost gravel" truck had been up our drive and turned around in the same spot that our phone lined is buried. W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-L!!!!

Telephone guys calls back about 2 hours later, he has found the problem...a heavy construction truck/equipment has been in your yard Mrs. Butler and when it turned, it twisted the wet soil and twisted the telephone cable out of your box. Our phone cable is only buried about 4 inches deep.

To make a loooonnnnngggg story short, logically with all the water, we all, me, Tim, Dad (who has worked for the phone company, now an independent contractor for it) thought that it all had to do with the "flood". We were wrong.

I now have phone service again.
Signed,
Loving My Life and ALL ITS DRAMA
Kaye