Pipeline: Pre-screening by Sauls Seismic

Someone was just here from a company who was hired by the pipeline contractors to document and log cracks and such in customer's homes, so that if there are new ones caused by the project, proof of it not being there previously will be on hand. This was of course one of my concerns, with the project being so close to my home, and the terrifying "what-if" possibility of cracking our foundation, or even our well, while they were blasting.

To date, I had no contact whatsoever from PSNC, or even from Sauls, before this man appeared on my doorstep. I had no warning a man would be coming to my home. It was a complete cold-call. I had to call the people of the PSNC project myself to verify that this visit from Sauls was even part of their plan. The people I spoke with over the phone associated with the PSNC project were surprised at the manner I was contacted. You just don't send a man door to door and expect him to gain entry into your home.

The guy doing the inspections is a nice small-town fella, but he reeked terribly of cigarette smoke. We dissolved into a conversation about henna. He wants a big smiley-face on top of his balding head to torment his boss with back home.

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More Pipeline Shenanigans

What a bunch of dumbasses. Jack Cox, land agent of SME with the PSNC pipeline project just called here. He wants to know if we have any lines buried along the pipeline, like gas lines, electric, phone. I told him I thought HIS boys were supposed to know all that, weren't they? Didn't they have all that mapped out already? Weeellllll, sometimes the homeowners put in other lines.

He said he was calling me to tell me that the pipeline was coming our way. I said I knew that. Could he tell me when?
No, he couldn't. They don't know exactly.
Well, don't you boys have a schedule? It seems like on a project this big you'd be working off some kind of schedule. They'd have to know. Don't they have to have something like that registered down at the planning department?
"Well, I don't have that information."

I asked him when they'd be on my land.
Well, they'll be out there to survey, and mark the 50' easement (nowhere is there legal documentation that that easement is 50' that we can find, by the way).
"When will that be?"
"I don't know that."

Folks, as far as I know, the surveyors have already been out here, and the boundaries are marked.


So, why is this man even calling me? To tell me there's a pipeline going in? Well, gee, I already KNEW that.

Remind me to put a rotisserie chicken carcass out there with some black candles and a few trinkets. Just for funsies.