Clang...clang...clang

Reverberations of a pile-driver working the new courthouse site, about 3/4 mile away and over a rise of land -- not bad here, but I know it is driving some downtown workers batshit.  Me, the site drives me batshit -- filled land right next to a tidal stream, lies in a flood plain where I have seen six feet of water in a February storm.  With soft clay subgrade, hence the pile-driver for foundations.  And with no on-site parking.

But the city fathers and city mothers were dead set on having the damned thing right downtown, and they had this site lying vacant since Urban Renewal in the 1960s.

Damn right it was vacant.  For a reason.

Your tax dollars at work.