So here’s what happened. We’ve been digging drainage ditches for pipes for our house. You know we keep all the water away from the foundation that twice as old as any of you.
So my friends are happily digging away with the back hoe we rented and guess what we cut the power. Second time this has happened, same tools, same project, at least not the same person. The worst part of all this was a huge storm came through the night before so power was out in half of lower Terre Haute. So dumbass frat kids who cut their own power generally get placed on the bottom of the priority list. On a side note we also cut our phone line and we still aren’t sure how this happened.
So that night we went on numerous runs to campus and stole coolers full of ice in order to keep our food frozen. So catapult kids gave us some odd looks when we walked in to their kitchen stole all their ice and left with out saying a word. Some our food made it through the night.
The next day while I was at work, Schroeder was digging with the back hoe and as he was doing this a huge puff of smoke flew in to the air. Guess what, we just cut the gas line. So after about an hour of calling around they get a hold of the gas company and they say they’ll send someone out. They also decide to call the fire dept and see who will get here first. So a few minutes later we see the fire dept barreling past us and then back the other way, then we see the gas company pull in and the guy drives right up to the gas line gets out and check out declaring he has no idea how to turn it off.
So the fire dept shows up being led by Rose-Hulman security. They got lost trying to find us. They didn’t know where to turn off the gas either. Campus security gets Gary Burgeous on the walky talky (our housing advisor) and tells him “That us boys at the pike house just cut the gas line, but everyone’s ok”, Ted then whispers to Vosmek the next words out of Garys mouth will be hilarious. Garry then says over the walky talky “stupid little shits I told them to mark it first” To which all the brothers laugh because we asked the utilities company to mark it and no one did. Thankfully no one got hurt though we did stink up our property quite a bit.
Later that night, the power company finally showed up and fixed our electricity. Though they were extremely pissed at us, and gave us a bit of a lecture. Luckily power is now on, and gas and phones our soon to follow today. We were thinking we should cut the water supply just so we could have all utilities cut to the house. That would’ve been hilarious, more so than the rustic living we were all going through for the past couple of days.