Happening on Our Street

 At the sound of big machinery, I looked out the sliding door and noted the street was being paved! This is so great as one of the potholes in our street was so large across, little taxis would dip all the way in and then climb out. I recorded Marco Polos as I knew at least two of my grandsons would have wanted to be there. Lots and lots of big earth moving machines.

A very wide machine that gravel coated with tar was dumped by a huge dump truck in the front - the tar would smoke and it was all evenly dropped down out of the back onto the street. 

A tar slurry was laid down, and then this large load of gravel and tar

This machine would even out the gravel and tar by scooping places too high and backing back over places to low and pushing more gravel in. He followed the big wide machine dropping the gravel and tar out the back.

Lots and lots of men were shoveling, and hauling, while others were guiding and directing the machine operators. Holes and edges were hand shoveled in and around the edges were tapped down by other men.

This rolling machine has three or four flat surface wheels on both ends of the machine that rolled back and forth, back and forth leveling out the road till it was smooth.

This machine may look smaller but actually it is just as big as the last machine, just taken from farther away. It has a long big wheel on the front and back that packs down the road and makes it all smooth. They drove back and forth, back and forth, for a long time that day.

Many men were working in the hot sun with the hot gravel and tar shoveling and raking the gravel and tar with that nose pinching smell all day long until the road was all done.

All the streets going north and south are done in this area. Soon I expect the east and west streets to get done too. Wow!!! Won't that be great?! Traveling on smooth roads to and from the temple area.