Exxon Valdez? Not exactly.

In between bouts of rain, tar guy came by to spray the foundation with, well, tar. They call it damp-proofing, I call it an environmental wasteland. Things might not have looked so bad had we not had rain shortly after. With the damp-proofing complete, the city inspector came over and signed off on the foundation. So far, so good. In the next few days, bobcat guy will return and backfill the deep moat around the foundation and our nasty oil slick. I give it another twenty years before it bubbles up to the surface. We'll be long gone by then.