I got an email from my mom last week saying that although we had talked a lot about the dynamite blasts rocking our building, it didn't really register until she saw the photos that the digging and blasting were directly under our building.
Visit the Picassa album and you'll see that we took a tour of the caverns below our building. Apparently they're building a huge underground water tank to store water pulled from the lake. Storing it under ground will stabilize the water temperature between seasons and will obviously remove the heating effects of the sun. So what's the point in that? Apparently they'll use this water for heating and cooling in a bunch of area offices and hospitals. These underwater caverns will do the initial warming in the winter and keep the water cooler in the summer, making the entire heating and cooling process more efficient. Pretty cool, eh?
If you didn't notice, the caverns are huge. Mom was jokingly worried about having something like that built in the rock below, but based on the success of the subway tunnels and all of their underground garages and the like I'm not worried. It's actually quite cool. The blasting and digging should be done by the end of the month, then they'll work on putting in the pipes, the heating and the cooling system. I think Miranda will miss the surprise of each dynamite blast, even if they did always happen in the exact same ten minute window each evening.
If you care to comment, feel free to tease Miranda about her photo. Doesn't she look like Garth from Wayne's World?
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