Today, it's raining. It's been raining all week and they said that we have a new storm blowing in today. Hopefully it will blow by quickly and we will be back to sunshine.
5 weeks ago
Today, it's raining. It's been raining all week and they said that we have a new storm blowing in today. Hopefully it will blow by quickly and we will be back to sunshine.
I slid off the road on Monday morning on my way to the job site. I was moving into the next lane to pass a truck on my way up the pass when I hit a patch of ice. It had been slushing (fat rain, rain/snow mix). I have been driving a Ford Explorer while I am out of town because it has 4-wheel drive. Unfortunately the only thing that rolls more easily than a Ford Explorer is a 12 passenger van. I remembered that as I was carreening out of control down the interstate and the only thing that I could think most of the time was "too fast, i'm sliding too fast." I thought for sure that it would roll once I hit the gravel, but thankfully it didn't and I am alive to tell the tale.
That's where I left the road.
The damage. Pretty much the only casualty was the tail light, and some gouges in the paint from the barbed wire. I thought when I initially stopped that something was wrong with the front end, but the snow plow driver helped me drive it out and it seems to be running just fine.
As I was spinning I actually remembered to turn my wheels into the spin. I would like to credit Austin for talking about turning into the slide and the physics involved over and over again. It could have been the thing that stopped me from rolling.
After all was said and done and I was sitting at the job site I decided to give my mom a call and let her know what happened. I said that it had to have been the hand of God that saved me from a roll over. Then she told me what had happened the day before. She and my Dad had accidentally fasted on Sunday thinking that it was fast Sunday. When they had realised their mistake they shrugged it off and my uncle who was visiting my parents and had fasted with them commented that they must have needed to fast. I'm glad that they did. I am thankful for the extra protection from my parents faith.
Last night there was an El Camino in my dream. I'm pretty sure that it was this one. I don't know what that means. Is it significant if you dream about an El Camino?
We had some problems again today. The water unexpectedly rose and flooded our prep area. The flooding made it more difficult for me to get from my truck to the barge. The situation was exacerbated because I had so many layers of clothing on that I was almost wider than I am tall.
I had to come down a little hill on the right, then walk across the boards in the upper right, climb up onto the trailer, walk across the trailer, pull the boat over, walk through the boat, climb over the anchor line across the boat, pull the boat over to the barge and then climb up onto the barge.
It made me feel like I was doing an obstacle course in a sumo suit.
This is why I was wearing so many layers. The wind was so cold it froze the water the second it stopped moving. Burrr.
Oh wait, we are working the weekend.
This is how my week has gone.
Monday-5 feet of drilling in 10 hours of work. For reference I expect that we should get around 50 feet done in a good day.
Tuesday- 5 feet in 10 hours again
Wednesday-
This happened. That rod on the right used to look like the one on the left, but the bit sheared off during drilling and wore the threads off of the rod. We couldn't retrieve the bit and we can't drill through the bit, so that meant that we had to scratch that location and move 5 feet away and start over.
Today- I woke up to several inches of snow on the ground. The drive into work was harrowing over the pass, but the brutal part was the wind. The drillers spent 5 hours getting the rig up and running.
Luckily my waitress didn't sit me at this table for dinner tonight.
This is how my week has gone.
Monday-5 feet of drilling in 10 hours of work. For reference I expect that we should get around 50 feet done in a good day.
Tuesday- 5 feet in 10 hours again
Wednesday-
Today- I woke up to several inches of snow on the ground. The drive into work was harrowing over the pass, but the brutal part was the wind. The drillers spent 5 hours getting the rig up and running.
Luckily my waitress didn't sit me at this table for dinner tonight.
Now that would have been pathetic.