Operation Broadwell: operation broken water line

The house is almost sealed up. I say almost because we are probably a full day or so away from having everything sealed up on the outside. Last week we had to run a new water line out to the meter. Wow! What a job. Derek came one day last week and helped finish digging up the pipe out to the drain. He also boarded up the upstairs window so it wouldn't rain in any more and helped my husband do a few other little odds and ends. Chris came over and helped spot my husband while he dug with the mini backhoe. All was going well until POOF went a loud noise. LOL Yes, they hit the main power line and had to call Cilco to turn it off and fix it. So many roots they couldn't feel the line until it was too late. Wonder how much that one will cost us! Oh well over and done. They were able to get the drain tile in. Today the McCanne family, Vince and Jeremy came to help out. They were able to get the rest of the insulation board on the sides that were ready for it. Bro. McCanne did an outstanding job cleaning up the junk upstairs and pulling nails. My husband was so excited to walk in and have that done. Makes it easier for him to work. One more outside wall to tear off and seal with insulation board and we will be ready to go inside for the winter. Can't wait to be done out in the cold. Jonathan and I have been working on the basement, trying to get it ready to paint so we can move in a makeshift kitchen and place to sleep. We need to be out of our current home in about 12 days. That is not a long time! Jonathan has pulled everything out of the ceiling that is there. All the nails, pipes and metal hangers. Nathan came a couple of days last week and they were able to get the old basement wall down and carried out. What a HUGE job that was. It looks so roomy down there now. Won't be such a bad place to stay for a while. Much better than 90% of the world lives in. I didn't get any photos there yet but will do that next time I go. We so appreciate all the help we had this week. Those men have no idea what a HUGE blessing they were to my husband who can get discouraged a bit as to how slow things go when it is just our family. Having even just one other man there is so much more help.