better than tv!

We were woken up this morning at 7am by some crazy screeching noises, when I looked out the window there was a big yellow crane on the street right in front of our building. I decided to make some coffee and watch all the action...
First they unloaded a bunch of I-beams and assembled them on the ground. Once the beams were bolted together the crane lifted them onto the roof of the building across the street. It was quite a sight to see!







They lifted a few small loads of wire, tools, and various other things, and then came the big daddy: a pre-constructed building! I think it's a unit for central AC, but I'm not totally sure. Whatever it is for, it was very impressive to watch it being hoisted up in the air.








And voila! Everything's up on the roof now. I can only imagine all the engineering and coordination that took place beforehand to make all this possible. We have a fire house on our street, so I'm sure the permits required to close down the block were pretty complicated. It was really fascinating to watch all the guys work together to get everything up there so fast. (The whole thing took about 6 hours.)