Curious why crews working on the street in front of their house left without finishing the job Friday, Rachel Gayhart and her husband, James, decided to look through footage from their surveillance camera.

What they wound up seeing reminded Rachel of “something out of a horror movie.”

Rachel Gayhart, 32, said she was getting ready to leave for lunch with her husband about 11:30 a.m. Friday when she saw crews setting up at the end of her driveway at 2855 Wilson St. on Lorain’s east side. She remembers asking them not to block her in because she would be leaving.

“I left, came home about 2 o’clock, and noticed the (temporary) patch was still there,” she said.

When James, 34, came home Friday night, he suggested looking at footage from the security camera.

“We rewound the security camera to see what they did,” she said. “At the speed we were watching it we just saw (one of the workers) walking up our driveway.”

Slowing it way down revealed the horrifying site.

As a worker operates a large piece of machinery in the road, a large circular saw blade — about three feet in diameter — comes loose and flies out of the machine.

“In slow motion we could see this circular thing come bouncing up the driveway,” she said. They went outside and saw gouges in the apron of the driveway, gouges in the grass of a neighbor’s yard and a large laceration, where the blade had lodged in the side of the house next door, right underneath a front bedroom window.”

Of the worker, Gayhart said, “He puts his hands on his hips, looking around like ‘I wonder if anyone else saw this’ ” before walking up the drive to retrieve the blade.

“Just out of shot of the camera, he’s taking it out of the house before looking at the blade spots in the yard,” she said. “He the puts blade back in machine, finishes cutting up the patch and drives away.”

After calling police and leaving a message for the Lorain Utilities Department, Gayhart said her husband set to work putting together a video for Youtube.

The finished video, titled “How To Not Repair A Street (Or, what happens if the cutting wheel is not properly secured),” is a combination of security footage and photos set to the fast-paced “Sabre Dance” song.

A little before noon today, Rachel was still waiting to hear back from the Utilities Department but said someone, apparently from the city, had been outside inspecting the blade marks.

The Utility Department referred calls to Ken Shawver, Lorain chief deputy safety-service director. He did not immediately return a phone call.

Rachel Gayhart said she and her husband want some answers, adding “We don’t know if he actually told anybody that he damaged the house.”

But they’re also thankful nothing worse happened.

“Had it been like two feet to the west, it would have hit a gas main,” Gayhart said.

And the house it became lodged in is now unoccupied, but “the people that lived in the house before had five kids that were always outside,” she said.

And the reaction to the Youtube video?

“We both put it on our Facebook pages,” Gayhart said. “Not to many people were surprised that it happened in Lorain.”

Contact Rona Proudfoot at 329-7124 or rproudfoot@chroniclet.com.