Have you heard the word on the street? There’s a party … for the street.

A New Orleans woman knew just how to toast the first anniversary of some inconveniently incomplete road work in front of her home — by staging a little party.

Natalie Harvey lives in the Lakeview neighborhood of the Big Easy, and couldn’t help but laugh that the construction on her street was unfinished a year after it began. Inspired, the nurse baked a “replica” cake complete with construction worker Legos, miniature Cat trucks, traffic safety equipment and a “road closed” sign, posing in front of the real-life nuisance with balloons and a party hat.

“Happy first birthday to our street construction! It was one year ago this week when they first began to rip up our street,” Harvey joked in a March 16 Facebook post. “One year later, half the street is impassable — just last week, we had a massive, 6-foot-deep hole!”

Shots from the woman’s faux fête have since gone viral with over 1,100 likes and almost just as many shares. In conversation with Fox News, Harvey said she’s amused that her post struck a chord with so many people from near and far.

“I thought that I might get a good reaction locally for my post, since New Orleanians are used to the awful road conditions here. I didn’t think it would spread across the country and even world!” she said on Monday. “I guess construction delays are universal. I’m glad that I could make some people laugh after all of the frustrations of the last year.”

“I made the cake and posed for the photos to give my neighbors a reason to laugh about the situation,” Harvey joked. “That’s how people in New Orleans deal with absurdity — we celebrate.”

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