Brian
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Six K-12 schools.
Fourty something houses.
Multiple feet of snow on all of them.
People freaking out as flat-roofed buildings all over the area collapse under the snow load.
...And only one bad-ass work crew to shovel it all off in a race against the clock.
With the exception of a few misc. small buildings tomorrow, today marks the probable end to our brief period of winter work. Thirteen and sixteen hour days, no weekends, and rapidly changing weather have made the past few weeks run together. You can't stop because the snow doesn't last forever.
My boots stink like a flooded sewer. My eyes are circled with fatigue, I have a few new callouses, and my body ahces. But we did it, again. We did it better than any other contractor could. All twelve of us.
From here on out it's the waiting game till the snow melts enough to let us back in the woods. Or normally it would be, if I wasn't moving. But now we get some time off to collect unemployment, and hopefully get some ice fishing in. I'm catching the meanest fuckin' Pike there is this year, even if I have to dive under and grab him up with brute force.
Just wanted to share my elation at getting to sleep in tomorrow morning. HALLELUJAH!
Fourty something houses.
Multiple feet of snow on all of them.
People freaking out as flat-roofed buildings all over the area collapse under the snow load.
...And only one bad-ass work crew to shovel it all off in a race against the clock.
With the exception of a few misc. small buildings tomorrow, today marks the probable end to our brief period of winter work. Thirteen and sixteen hour days, no weekends, and rapidly changing weather have made the past few weeks run together. You can't stop because the snow doesn't last forever.
My boots stink like a flooded sewer. My eyes are circled with fatigue, I have a few new callouses, and my body ahces. But we did it, again. We did it better than any other contractor could. All twelve of us.
From here on out it's the waiting game till the snow melts enough to let us back in the woods. Or normally it would be, if I wasn't moving. But now we get some time off to collect unemployment, and hopefully get some ice fishing in. I'm catching the meanest fuckin' Pike there is this year, even if I have to dive under and grab him up with brute force.
Just wanted to share my elation at getting to sleep in tomorrow morning. HALLELUJAH!
