It was dark this morning when Rabia and I left the house. We walked our usual path toward the lake tunnel, a concrete barrel vault under Routes 5&20. Standing on the broad sidewalk that spears through the front end of solar village, looking southeast toward the lake, dim tunnel lights illuminated large chain-link gates that have blocked off both ends for two weeks now.
Fun fact. A barrel vault is the simplest and maybe the most ancient of architectural forms, found as far back as Sumer in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago. Such tunnels are found underneath the giant ziggurat temples built by the Sumerians and Akkadians. These dark channels beneath human-built behemoths are still holding up thousands of years later. In other words, our lake tunnel is a basic but strong design.
Rabia and I walked up to the fence and stared in. Actually, Rabia was sniffing........