Monday, November 5, 2012

Hate it when that happens.

Garbage truck driving down the street in Fondren and then BOOM!  Part of the road collapses with the garbage truck stuck in the resulting hole. See pics below.  City crews of course came out there immediately.  Just one problem, Fondrenites had been calling the city for over a week about the problem, with no results.  The reader who sent in these photos provided details in an email (yes, I spoke to him and confirmed the email.).


He said he and others called the city ten days ago after water began flowing out of a storm drain without stopping. Nothing happened. No one from the city did anything.  Garbage truck then falls into the hole when the road collapsed as it passed over the weak spot.  Our reader wrote:

"The street caved in as the garbage truck passed over it.  The back end  of the garbage truck was in the hole.  We have had low water pressure
for over a week, and there has been running water out one of the neighbor's (who lives directly in front of the hole) storm drains for that long as well.  There is basically a river running underneath the
street right now.  This is going to be a mess!

It's unreal that it takes a garbage truck falling into a sink hole before you can get the City's attention.

The lady driving the garbage truck said "She almost pooped herself".









28 comments:

Anonymous said...

SO many other spots just like this in Jackson just waiting to collapse.

The city will have a huge mess on its hands soon, and masses of people will have little, if any, water pressure. Of course, the water won't be fit to drink anyway.

Anonymous said...

@3:11 - I have been saying that for over 10 years now and your right. BUT WE HAVE A CONVENTION CENTER!!! WAAAHHHHOOOOOO!!!

Anonymous said...

There is something poetic about a lady driving a garbage truck almost pooping herself. Aaahhh...Fondren.

Anonymous said...

Good to see those massive tax kickbacks to David Watkins helping the city address our infrastructure problems. No doubt successes such as that today in Fondren will stimulate hordes of "young people" back into Jackson. We need more taxpayer subsidized high end rentals and we need them NOW!

Col. Reb Sez said...

I hope you gave her a hug and a bottle of Gatorade in case you ever want to run for office!

Anonymous said...

The problem is not that this happened. Water leaks and other stuff like this is going to happen. The garbage truck is lucky it didn't disappear!

The problem is the sorry, lazy, don't give a shit people in the Public Works dept. The haead of it should be fired immediately.

Anonymous said...

The head should be fired? You don't even know his name. Dan Gaillet is the best. Came from the private sector. Inherited total crap. Relax. He is a white guy.

I love effing idiots. Admit it. You have never met Dan.

You assumed he was black, didn't you? That is the reason for your stupid ass post.

Anonymous said...

Curious to know how long "Dan" has held that position.5:50!

Anonymous said...

Have KNOWN Dan for 15+ years. He's not the problem. Read these words carefully. I'll make it easy for you. Jackson is flat BROKE. If Jackson was a business it would be in bankruptcy court or no longer exist. There is no money to DO ANYTHING.

Anonymous said...

Well, yeah sure, you're going to have occasional annoyances like sewage flooding the streets, garbage trucks falling into sinkholes, and of course lots and lots of murders.

But on the other hand, think of all the really compelling arguments in favor of living in Jackson.

Anonymous said...

I live in Fondren. One thing we all could do is clean out the stormwater drains. The sub-surface pipe thats cracked will cause a hole in the future. Some residents blow leaves to the middle of the street instead of proper disposal. They clog the stormwater system and the water opens another route. The water, stormwater, and sanitary lines are going to be replaced- but citizens can dispose of yard waste properly to help in the present.

Anonymous said...

I'll second that we are lucky to have Dan Galliett. I can promise you he does a great job with the resources at his disposal. We are an old city that has a lot of old city problems, 'tis not his fault.

Anonymous said...

This is a horror story waiting to unfold. Forget slow faucets, wait till Jackson has a big fires or high rise fire. With all that equipment engines, towers, ladder trucks, platforms and aerials and low to no pressure. Yeah I know most have pumps on board but at the speed and pressure they operate they need enough water to function.

Go to youtube and watch fire fighters with low water pressure. Sad sad.

Anonymous said...

" We are an old city that has a lot of old city problems, 'tis not his fault."

"Well, yeah sure, you're going to have occasional annoyances like sewage flooding the streets,..."

"Old city problems"? NYC, Philly, Boston, Baltimore, other places are at least 100 years older, and I don't recall many stories about sewage flooding the streets, over 200 leaks occurring on the same cold day, etc.

The blame belongs solely with the voters who put the powers that be in their present positions. If they keep voting for crooked, incompetent losers they will continue to get the same results, and watch those can flee, flee.

Anonymous said...

Jackson is turning into one big sink hole...you get what you vote for!!!

Anonymous said...

If Dan is so great why is he working for Jackson? I'm just asking.

Anonymous said...

Guess what folks. Thanks to our good friend Bill Waller and his majority opinion in February of this year, if you had driven over that spot and disappeared, good luck suing the city for negligence. Not fixing the hole is a "discretionary" action that is subject to immunity, even if that discretionary action is completely negligent. There used to be a lack of due care exception to immunity, but Waller and his buddies got rid of that pesky thing

Anonymous said...

Ambulance chaser.

Go buy insurance like the rest of us who dare to drive in Jacktown.

Also what Jackpot do you expect to get from the near bankrupt Jaxson?

Anonymous said...

The City has insurance like everyone else. Ask your defense attorney buddies, at least the ones who haven't been laid off

Anonymous said...

i am in ridgeland and my water bill spiked up last year; i left a voicemail with waterworks, and that afternoon a city truck with 3-4 workers was out front checking for problems. (and for you race-obsessed, they were all black and great guys-- they cared!).

turns out it was a leak in irrigation, which i had repaired and those guys told me to mail a copy of the repair bill in; they promptly adjusted my bill down. a well-run town--

Anonymous said...

I know Dan. And David Willis. And Robert Lee. And Chan Burns (now gone). And John Thompson. And Joseph Warnsley. They are all incompetent, but Dan is the best of the poor bunch. He is decent, but has been drug down to the level of the idiots and is now a lazy employee like the rest of them.

Anonymous said...

Yeah a real shit hole. Tell that to Whole Foods at their groundbreaking this Tthursday at 10 a.m. at Highland Village.

WF is known to invest in shit holes. EYHO.

Anonymous said...

If WF wasn't known for investing in shit holes before they surely will be known for doing so going forward. Think Harvey will be taking them on a tour a few blocks down from HV where shit is actually getting pumped and routed through yards and parks through above ground shit pipes? Asshole.

Anonymous said...

Control your anger 5:20. Good God!

Anonymous said...

Ryan (5:20) is still pissed. You need to get a new job. I mean for God's sake, cant your boss help you....err ....us???

Anonymous said...

Hey Ryan....Yeah a real shit hole. Tell that to Whole Foods at their groundbreaking this Tthursday at 10 a.m. at Highland Village.

Shadowfax said...

Excellent thread. Hillarious posts. Good stuff. I never realized there was this amount of talent lurking or is is lurking talent. Anyway, quality stuff. Needed the guffaw but Cap'n will find a reason to grumble and groan.

Anonymous said...

The bitter clingers who think a new high end supermarket will save Jackson are:

-- the same ones who thought JPS would turn it around if only it had better buildings
-- the same ones who thought tourists would flock to Jackson if only the city had a convention center
-- the same ones who think that crime can be spun to a seemingly unsuspecting public as not that bad or only a small nuisance
-- the same bitter clingers who are underwater on their Jackson investments and can't get out



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