Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Pit and the Backyard

I have a lede to introduce:

DECATUR, GA (CBS46) -
For the last 18 months, Jay Brown and Shannon Golden have been looking for an answer, and felt like they were stuck in the mud - the mud pit their backyards have become.
It started with a relatively small trickle of water running across the middle of his yard, according to Brown. He said it appeared shortly after DeKalb County finished working on water lines under the streets near his home.
Since then, the 6-inch-wide trickle has become a 15-foot-wide swamp stretching from one edge of his property to the creek on the other side of his neighbor Shannon Golden's lot.

I was engaged to read the rest of the article, I thought this was a well written piece.  It is descriptive and catchy. What terrifies me is that the bog ranges in depth from a few to several inches deep, and the homeowners don't know what it is! How terrifying it would be to  witness a growing pit in my backyard? I surely do hope that it isn't a natural spring. 

1 comment:

  1. It was well written. Hope they don't have problems with alligators too.

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