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A few clips from this job in Cordova
Posted by Daryl Moistner on October 25, 2018 at 2:03 pmA lot of rain with a few bits of nicer weather here and there. Topo of a 4 mile corridor in virgin forest for once of those Road to Now Where projects. Actually to a future deep water port for oil response operation. In case there’s another one of those Exxon Valdez fiascos.
Jon Payne replied 5 years, 11 months ago 14 Members · 15 Replies -
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Jeez Daryl – I thought you were in the middle of nowhere until I saw the Cheetos!
Thanks for the video! Beautiful country you’re in there…
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WOW! Beautiful country and quite the job. Thanks for sharing.
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I love the rain…
That was AWESOME!
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Looked a lot like another boring day of work here in Kansas………………………NOT!!!!!
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Not a lot of grade change, should be an easy road design for the engineers 🙂
Glad to see you’re still around. Missed your posts!
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Ah, gotta love that SE surveying!
have the devil??s club spines pussed out of your hands yet?
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Sounds like you dodged the big storm that just clobbered Cordova. Sustained 90 mph winds, quite a bit of damage from what I hear.
Willy -
Great to see some action from your side!
greetz from Belgium,
Christof
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Bravo!
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Clobbering Storm or not, I’m jealous…
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I was on a job today were we had to walk through the woods about half an hour to get to the car. My wife was joking about having another formerly wealthy local client, now not so wealthy, pick us up in his helicopter. I was thinking Daryl took a helicopter to most of his jobs in Alaska, but has not posted anything on Beer Leg in a while. Check in this afternoon, and there you are. Really.
Thanks for the clip.
Ken
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You know what they call hurricanes in Cordova? … Weather. Some local told me that.
We couldn??t work that day, plus I didn??t want to work that day. Building we are staying in just shudders like imminent state of collapse. I went down to the Marina to see the wind, rain, spray, mist, and white caps and that derelict was straining against her anchor chain. I didn??t realize it had broken free until I saw it the next day on the other side of the bay grounded.
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Awesome post.
I wonder if FBI and CIA guys sitting at their desks get the same feeling of
“WOW my job would be so much cooler if I did things like that.”
whenever they watch a James Bond film!
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