An Interesting Follow-Up

 

I did learn something new from yesterday's electrical outage event.  Have you ever wondered how they put those very heavy steel plates over the construction trenches on our roadways?  I found out watching this process take place.  They use a big robot machine resembling a dinosaur.  They pick up the steel plate with what looks like a magnet.

Then they swing it into place using some kind of remote control device.  That man in the lower right of this photo is operating the control.

After it's in place, the man with the remote folds up the robot while the other two workers put down some sealing asphalt around the edges of the plate.

The guy operating the robot packs it up and drives away.  It's an interesting operation requiring a lot of heavy equipment that must cost a lot of money.  I'd say they would be wise to get this issue fixed soon before it costs more money.