Martians on Bridlewood Drive

 

It had been an ordinary week on Bridlewood Drive, an average street in a a nondescript subdivision in a common Alabama town. Then the residents spotted a strange shadow. Looking upward, they saw the behemoth rising from behind their overpriced homes. 

Children screamed. Men and women ran for their safe rooms...if they had one. Those who didn't have their own resources called 911, but help from the city never came...

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Is our rather late Halloween story true? Partially, but the invader wasn't a Martian spaceship. It was a new City of Florence water tank - just what everyone wanted for Christmas.

In fairness, the project had been announced three years before, but many paid no attention. Others had no idea what the new 120 ft. water tower would bring to the quiet neighborhood in terms of industrial architecture. Now it's halfway completed, and it's too late to complain.

For those in Florence just happy that it isn't in their backyard, remember that all City taxpayers are footing the bill. Just how much did this lovely spaceship model cost? The projected budget from 2021 was eight million dollars. We're betting the tower is running over the initial projections. Happy holidays!