Well, it's that time of year again in Mississippi.
We have our annual conference in Vicksburg put on by the Mississippi Association of Professional Surveyors starting on Thursday and ending on Saturday. We typically have about 300 surveyors who attend this conference in order to earn needed PDH's and to see the latest and greatest surveying equipment from area vendors. See this website:http://www.mississippisurveyor.co m">MAPS
And we are having days incessant rain! The typical daytime highs are in the mid-thirties, and it freezes at night. The freeze-thaw cycles are pretty tough on our roads, and makes surveying a sloppy mess when you can get outside. Around here this time of year, mud and water are our biggest issues. An ATV helps if we can cross the full flowing creeks and ditches. I am trying to satisfy client needs with reduced good days to get outside. Typical in Mississippi are also the wild swings in temperature. It was five degrees here last week, and it hit sixty a few days later!
Ya'll be careful out there. B-)
This weather is weird for sure, Harold. We've finally dropped back to normal temps here in Anchorage, but statewide it has been strange! Nome was 8 degrees warmer than here yesterday. My son, who lives in St. Marys on the Yukon/Andreafski rivers can only use his snowmachine on the river! Shipping him out my old 4 wheeler so he can at least go moose hunting. I'm looking forward to fresh moose, so it's worth shipping the old thing out there, + I'll have wheels when Bec and I go up that way this spring.
Be careful on those black iced roads, they can be a killer! Throw a bag of kitty litter in the trunk for those bad spots.
-JD-
Can you imagine how much fun Vicksburg could be if Thursday and Friday we got snow like last week. There'd be a LOT of surveyors bobbing around at the end of Levee Street!! :-O
I can vouch that the Mississippi Convention is a really good show. Encourage everyone in the area, if you can go, GO.
Larry P
Don't the farmers usually start planting crops that far south about this time of year?
Nope. Too wet. Usually after the end of February you will see seedlings springing up!!
Harold,
Chris and I just arrived in Vicksburg. We will be at the entire conference.
Jimmy
Y'all grab Chris King and Chris Pesnell from Maptech, Inc. and have them show you the way to the office over in Pearl/Brandon.
We had a few days of dry weather a while back. Fields are plowed near the Black Belt overlook on the Natchez Trace Parkway just South of Tupelo. It is now very muddy with a recent three inch rain.
Just arrived in Vicksburg and looking forward to two days of excellent seminar topics and cool surveying gear shown by the vendors.
Work resumes next week, weather permitting!