[ckissick]

How bad must those drillers feel? Talk about the domino effect.

As a geologist, I've been around a lot of drill rigs. The worst thing we ever hit was a 4-foot pressurized water main. (The town of Oakley went without water for two days.) The driller jumped in the truck real quick and got it out of there before the hole swallowed everything. We made a 30-foot geyser. Cool!

I didn't feel so bad about it, in terms of being at fault, because we drilled right where the water company guy told us it was safe. He was mighty sheepish, after that.