some of that Trial and Error whiskey and the Eagles Cowboys game. Go Birds!

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Roads are first built with funding then adopted for maintenance. That's VDOT for most of the state other than the 2 x counties mentioned.

no it can burst through freezing. It's the most likely. Won't be an issue if you have pex though, it's usually the copper hot

It seems to depend on the road, and perhaps where it is within the county, vs town inside the county. Looking at their street projects, some are funded by VDOT, others by CVTA, some are grants from federal funding, and some is paid for by the county.

https://www.chesterfield.gov/579/Road-Projects

because Henrico votes for a competent goverment and still has the city manager system Doug Wilder got rid of in Richmond because it was holding him back from being a complete disaster

Lane Bryant is super nice and have so many sizes!

So the pipes will only burst when they start to thaw? I have all the faucets open, so it would make me feel much better if the bursting part was preventable.

Ya its just alot of issues that Henrico doesn't really have to even think of. Henrico and other surrounding counties also don't have to really think too much about how to draw in people because RVA does that for them. The counties score big time on just having to focus on basic services while Richmond is tasked with heading regional efforts to maintain tourism, population growth, transport, etc. Henrico, Chesterfield, Powhatan, and Hanover can all just aboard the revenue stream that is Richmond.

Did the yeti challenge last year, good times!

its determined. Easy to diagnose from what you said. You've got a frozen cold pipe. not the main, as you still have hot water.

Drip your faucets

water elves. The tree elves deliver trees

Richmond also has more concentrated poverty than the surrounding counties which isn’t really something easy or cheap to fix

no water is almost certainly frozen pipes. Probably under crawl. You want to deal with this soonest

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I think working today should be a voluntary thing. There’s enough people who would volunteer if respectfully asked and offered double pay that we can keep things running enough.

Everyone should be entitled to guaranteed time off.

Density makes it cheaper to maintain actually. Sprawling roads like the ones in Henrico normally mean less tax dollars per mile for funding. Richmond overall has far more services to maintain, is massively disorganized, and also struggles to maintain its tax base.

I made some yesterday but with rum. Good luck!

Scary couple of days in our household. What we thought was food poisoning ended up being an early case of appendicitis for my wife. She had surgery yesterday and this morning had a hard time breathing. Thankfully she’s better now and the CVS on Iron Bridge being 24hr pharmacy helped a ton with getting her medication early this AM. We’ve had a very eventful year between a house purchase falling through at the very end, then a successful house purchase, and our wedding last month. Hopefully no more big events and we can end the year on a relaxing note!

Chesterfield doesn't maintain its own roads. VDOT does.

Good luck and stay hydrated!

Patient there several times. Great people there.

Heading two hours further East in PA in a bit to see more family. This is the part where I start getting hit with grief as I’d normally be seeing my dad during this leg of travel but he passed 4 years ago.

Very true. I moved here recently and came from a city with lots of huge suburbs. Even just replacing the sprinkler system in the 3 parks were blowing the budget apart. Let alone a bunch of other common area issues that are cropping up.

Many cities have fully banked on the associations to do maintenance and code enforcement so it’s not like they can just come in and fix things either. Should be interesting to watch at least.