The amusing picture was taken by gobsmacked homeowner Andrea Adams, who couldn’t believe it when she saw Jimmie at work in her driveway in Hood County, Texas.
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So viral, in fact, the attention got to be too much: “I’ve shut down my Facebook, turned off my email”, she told USA Today.
Jimmie Cox didn’t want to be viral star, he just wanted to do his job.
Cox said he only took the call to pick up a little overtime.
As for working blind underwater, Cox told WFFA: “In this line of work, people do it a lot”.
Submerged from the waist up, Cox had reached down into a five-foot hole in an attempt to clamp the line. “There was a lady running around”, he said.
One utility worker has left the internet stunned after he literally dived into his work while trying to fix a leaking pipe. That didn’t work he said “so we had to cut it and put a valve on there when it was underwater”.
He has since received Facebook messages “asking me, essentially, what the hell I was doing”. “Because my husband is never going to believe this”, she said to Cox, having gone out to check on his progress.
She took the photo a week ago, when a waterline break led to a gusher in her front yard, she told WFAA.
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When a water line burst in her Hood County neighborhood, Andrea Adams chose to check out what was going out outside. Then she walked outside to see Cox – well, half of him – hard at work to fix the problem.
