Big Bertha has been working for a month along the waterfront, but she's moved only 24 feet. I don't think Bertha even has her head underground and the project is already two weeks behind what the team expected. The engineer's original estimate was 6 feet per day to start, accelerating to 35 feet per day under downtown. It's something about fiberglass strands getting tangled on the face of the drill, which sounds pretty aggravating. The drilling part is supposed to be finished about this time next year, with the tunnel open for traffic about a year after that. Ha.
We're back to rain this week, and our crispy lawns and shrubs are gulping it down. I went downtown yesterday with a friend, and we zigzagged slowly through the construction maze where Big Bertha is lazing around.
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