1 Never stopped any contractors.

2 BTW, I may be angling to kill the thread, but I know of a great example of construction malpractice. Back in 1937 Moscow subway, the best of the world, yada yada yada, was going to span Moscow river. It was an architectural marvel, using the landscape to its advantage. The design had a single large arch from reinforced concrete. Well, long story short, it was completed on time despite the weather conditions. 50 years later it became very apparent that workers added salt to concrete in order to make it set in Russian winter. Someone came up with rather fancy reconstruction plan, which has succeeed (won't go into that). The fun part is, many Russians point at Stalin's time and basically fall to the "Mussolini made trains run on time" fallacy by claiming that everyone was done great under Stalin and who didn't work well was executed. Guess what... They added that salt even though if the story got out, someone was probably getting a firing squad. I'm pretty sure the contractors laying the asphalt in Oregon aren't going to be executed if it fails to bind to substrate.

3 Well, it only sprinkled a little. Alex, our apartment handyman, always supervises these things as they're happening, so he won't let them do it if it's going to go bad.

4

Well, it's 3PM local time and they never did it. I looked again at the warning the complex left for us, and they were originally supposed to do the paving on Wednesday. Today was supposed to be painting the lines.

I think that when it started raining this morning, Alex probably called it off.