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Together Again - Buildup to a disaster
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Thanks Longbow. Still praying for your family. Looking forward to the next installment.
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A week of moving rock, clay and topsoil took a toll on everyone. The mound is building up and the temporary dam at the far side of the bridge is holding back more and more water every day. Everyone was part of the team, and to be honest hard work was relaxing. “At this pace, the dam will be completed in two more weeks” said one of the ladies working on the stones for the spillway. By 3PM the work stopped and everyone went to the shade to rest.
The survey stakes show about where the finished dam will stand. It will be ten feet tall, 230 feet wide and the spillway and overflow area will be on the side that the grain mill will be constructed. The top two feet of the wet side of the dam will be covered with stone fragments to reduce the erosion from the waves. The plan is for the dam to hold back 8 feet of water. At eight feet and a quarter inch, a stair step spillway will discharge the water on the dry side of the dam and into the creek. The dam is designed to add at least 4 more feet, but the footprint of the dam would increase dramatically, and without a bulldozer is out of reach with the equipment.
“Shoes and clothes are falling apart, and we are running out of thread for patching the rips. By next summer, we will be walking around in just strips of cloth covering the vital areas”, said Carrie. The other choice was wearing only the military supplied clothing. The women just were not sold on that fashion style yet. The camo clothing was comfortable, but just hung on everyone. Salvaging more clothing as we search and explore other areas is another option, but it will take time.
Clothing is now on the growing list of things wearing out.
The scouting mission to the wind farm was shelved when one of the turbines on the Blackhawk red lined during the warm up. The service doors are open and four of us are helping find the fault. Until the problem is discovered the trip is on hold. The flight is long enough, that two helicopters need to make the trip for safety reasons. Worse case is we build some rigging to pull the turbine and put in a replacement. There are two spares in all the gear we have from Dayton. “How hard can that be?” I grumbled under my breath.
The three teenage warriors took a new path for a patrol to the Northwest about six miles from the base. The fires opened new routes to areas that had been forgotten in the rural county. A stone cutting company had long ago abandoned the quarry, when the bigger players in the area hired away all the good employees. The small quarry, with hundreds of blocks and equipment from the 1950’s sat for decades. The current owner of the land was a collector of old stone cutting equipment and hand tools. In the middle of the quarry was a metal shop building that he used to repair and rebuild the old mining equipment. Hundreds of books and maintenance manuals for the steam and electric units filled his office shelves.
Behind the shop was an old Cat dozer protected from the weather with a lean to. In crates around it were spare parts, hoses and extra tracks. The hour meter on the dozer read 785 hours. It was obvious the owner was restoring it when the disaster hit. His notes said it was purchased from a farmer who used it for building a pond and never used it again. The farmer said it was too slow and just left it in a corner of his equipment barn until it was purchased at an auction. Next to the dozer was a worn dump truck with a heavy duty equipment trailer still attached. The tires on both the trailer and dump truck were all low on air, but not completely flat
The body of the owner was found on the floor in the bathroom of the office. The cold, bugs and time left just his bones and soiled clothing on the tile floor. The three disturbed nothing else. They knew they had to radio back the discovery for the adults to figure out what all this stuff is. Thirty minutes later one of the pickups showed with four adults up to see what they found.
“It’s getting dark; we can campout here for the night. Sleeping in the shed will be better than under the stars and keep the mosquitos away”, commented Carrie.
“I see an old South Bend lathe and a knee milling machine in the corner,” said Craig as he used a flashlight to see what is in the shed as dusk fell. The rest of the evening the seven sat around a fire talking about what all the stuff they found can be used in rebuilding. The group was hoping the dump truck worked, because the labor on the dam would be much easier with it.
Daybreak came and the group started laughing at each other. Months of hard work, and somewhat limited food items has thinned everyone. This somewhat out of shape group is much healthier than they were when the disaster started. To be honest, some have never looked better.
A week of moving rock, clay and topsoil took a toll on everyone. The mound is building up and the temporary dam at the far side of the bridge is holding back more and more water every day. Everyone was part of the team, and to be honest hard work was relaxing. “At this pace, the dam will be completed in two more weeks” said one of the ladies working on the stones for the spillway. By 3PM the work stopped and everyone went to the shade to rest.
The survey stakes show about where the finished dam will stand. It will be ten feet tall, 230 feet wide and the spillway and overflow area will be on the side that the grain mill will be constructed. The top two feet of the wet side of the dam will be covered with stone fragments to reduce the erosion from the waves. The plan is for the dam to hold back 8 feet of water. At eight feet and a quarter inch, a stair step spillway will discharge the water on the dry side of the dam and into the creek. The dam is designed to add at least 4 more feet, but the footprint of the dam would increase dramatically, and without a bulldozer is out of reach with the equipment.
“Shoes and clothes are falling apart, and we are running out of thread for patching the rips. By next summer, we will be walking around in just strips of cloth covering the vital areas”, said Carrie. The other choice was wearing only the military supplied clothing. The women just were not sold on that fashion style yet. The camo clothing was comfortable, but just hung on everyone. Salvaging more clothing as we search and explore other areas is another option, but it will take time.
Clothing is now on the growing list of things wearing out.
The scouting mission to the wind farm was shelved when one of the turbines on the Blackhawk red lined during the warm up. The service doors are open and four of us are helping find the fault. Until the problem is discovered the trip is on hold. The flight is long enough, that two helicopters need to make the trip for safety reasons. Worse case is we build some rigging to pull the turbine and put in a replacement. There are two spares in all the gear we have from Dayton. “How hard can that be?” I grumbled under my breath.
The three teenage warriors took a new path for a patrol to the Northwest about six miles from the base. The fires opened new routes to areas that had been forgotten in the rural county. A stone cutting company had long ago abandoned the quarry, when the bigger players in the area hired away all the good employees. The small quarry, with hundreds of blocks and equipment from the 1950’s sat for decades. The current owner of the land was a collector of old stone cutting equipment and hand tools. In the middle of the quarry was a metal shop building that he used to repair and rebuild the old mining equipment. Hundreds of books and maintenance manuals for the steam and electric units filled his office shelves.
Behind the shop was an old Cat dozer protected from the weather with a lean to. In crates around it were spare parts, hoses and extra tracks. The hour meter on the dozer read 785 hours. It was obvious the owner was restoring it when the disaster hit. His notes said it was purchased from a farmer who used it for building a pond and never used it again. The farmer said it was too slow and just left it in a corner of his equipment barn until it was purchased at an auction. Next to the dozer was a worn dump truck with a heavy duty equipment trailer still attached. The tires on both the trailer and dump truck were all low on air, but not completely flat
The body of the owner was found on the floor in the bathroom of the office. The cold, bugs and time left just his bones and soiled clothing on the tile floor. The three disturbed nothing else. They knew they had to radio back the discovery for the adults to figure out what all this stuff is. Thirty minutes later one of the pickups showed with four adults up to see what they found.
“It’s getting dark; we can campout here for the night. Sleeping in the shed will be better than under the stars and keep the mosquitos away”, commented Carrie.
“I see an old South Bend lathe and a knee milling machine in the corner,” said Craig as he used a flashlight to see what is in the shed as dusk fell. The rest of the evening the seven sat around a fire talking about what all the stuff they found can be used in rebuilding. The group was hoping the dump truck worked, because the labor on the dam would be much easier with it.
Daybreak came and the group started laughing at each other. Months of hard work, and somewhat limited food items has thinned everyone. This somewhat out of shape group is much healthier than they were when the disaster started. To be honest, some have never looked better.
Thanks for the update. Figured you had run outta steam. Glad to say I was wrong.
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