I went out front to have a smoke. I thought I would walk the 35-40 metres to the sidewalk and have a look at the work they are doing. They are tearing up the whole street and the sidewalks to replace them. They are even putting a sidewalk on the other side of the street, yay!
I noticed that there is now a trench where the sidewalk used to be. They were almost to the sidewalk in front of the driveway to our garage. I asked one of the workers when that would be filled in, so we would be able to get our cars out of the garage.
"It depends on the rain." he said. They can't work in the rain. They have to finish digging the trench; build the forms; fill in the gravel; and then pour the cement. They might not be able to pour cement today or tomorrow (since we have rain in the forecast for both days) and it will take a day for the cement to dry. That means that my car would be stuck in the garage until at least Monday. Man am I ever glad I decided to go look at the work.
Since it is a weekday, most people are at work and there were only three cars in the garage, counting mine. The worker asked me whose cars they were and I told him that the one at my end of the garage was one of the first two doors and the one at the far end would be near the end of the townhouses on the other side of the plaza. There are 27 parking spaces and they all get used. I just went and looked. I guess that worker got hold of the people who own the other two cars, because they aren't there now. Someone could have had a nasty surprise.