October/November 1999

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Last updated: March 14, 2004

October/November 1999
In October/November the neighbourhood looked like a big ditch with a myriad of dirt piles and small special-purpose machines everywhere. (Click on the pictures for full size). The exitement was total and the winter with 60 cm (2 feet) snow and frozen ground was closing in on us. We had lots of luck - the winter came one month later than usual! The images are clickable!

In October/November the neighbourhood looked like a big ditch with a myriad of dirt piles and small special-purpose machines everywhere. (Click on the pictures for full size). The exitement was total and the winter with 60 cm (2 feet) snow and frozen ground was closing in on us.

We had lots of luck - the winter came one month later than usual!

The images are clickable!


This ditch I dug by hand to speed up the process. Winter was closing in fast! It is about 50 cm deep.	This is one of the ditches from the houses to the central.	This is one of the two small excavators that made our high speed Internet connection a reality! They are very kind to the lawns since they are fairly light and have rubber tracks.

Water is always present in the ground here in Northern Sweden. The cables are protected in thick PVC-tubes (d=10cm) and the cables are insulated to withstand the water.	Everyone was very understanding and didn't make a big fuss about the lawns being temporary destroyed.	Now, a year later, there aren't any visible tracks of this mayhem.

-What is a nice lawn worth compared to Internet access? -Nothing! :)	To the left is the "bomb shelter" (no, we're not afraid of invasion...) in our block. We have a 100 Mbps-outlet there and the kids gather there with their computers and play online-games during weekends.	To the left is the room where all switches are (behind a heavy duty-door, mind you!).