If I stay there will be trouble & if I go it will be double.
I probably screwed up the lyrics to the Clash.
Anyway............The weather guessers are calling for rain today but they have done that all week and have been wrong all week so I'm thinking about going up close to Tennessee and do some trout fishing today.?ÿ
It will probably rain. It beats surveying though. A bad day fishing beats about anything.
Amen!
"My worst day (insert activity other than work) is still better than my best day at work." - Abe Lincoln
This time of year in FL is "freaky weather season". The weather wizards here are the same. I hate when they forecast pouring rain all day, and it is pouring when I'm about to send 4 crews out, so I send them all home. An hour later the Sun comes for the rest of the day. Lost revenue hurts.?ÿ?ÿ ??ÿ
Caught these beauties last night across the street from my house.....
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Good luck and enjoy the fishing.......
Dear Mr. Provenson,
It's okay to survey in the rain.
Signed,
Every surveyor in Oregon and Washington
p.s. you can fish in the rain, too.
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Rain gear
This happened my first year here in Texas. We would all be sent home and then by 10am the rain would quit. I told my crew to buy, rent or borrow rain gear. We would leave the office, drive to the job, 30 minutes later the rain would quit. We got out and put our rain gear on and went to work. Kept our clothes dry even though the grass was soaked.
Lightning, now that's a different story.
Dear Mr. Provenson,
It's okay to survey in the rain.
Signed,
Every surveyor in Oregon and Washington
p.s. you can fish in the rain, too.
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You can include Southeast Alaska too. When I worked in Eugene I was told if you don't work in the rain, you don't work.
Around here I'm happy as a lark to work and fish in the rain, because it's not snow.?ÿ
One of the fringe benefits when I was solo was I just kept my fly rods in my work jeep?ÿ
I live in Georgia and it is in the Board Rules that if the first drop hits you it is Gods fault and if the second drop hits you it is your fault.
I do not survey in the rain. Now way in hell! This profession does not pay enough for me to do that foolishness.
I will hunt and fish in the rain though.
I caught 2 pan sized rainbows.?ÿ
California Surveyors melt in the rain just like the Wicked Witch of the West.
Placed I have worked, and attitudes when it comes to wet weather:
Yukon Territory - If the equipment can physically still work, you are working. (at -50C, you can shoot huge distances...... right up until the total station batteries freeze up). Data collectors reside inside your jacket until needed so they don't freeze..... eyelashes get pulled out because they are frozen to the eyepiece.... lunch involves building a fire to defrost your sandwiches.....?ÿ
British Columbia - Rain is a part of life. Calculators live in a ziplock bag. We generally break for coffee when the rain is so hard we can't see the backsight.
Washington - Total stations generally get put away in total torrential downpours, but GPS keeps working. There is a reason Rite-In-the-rain was invented in Tacoma.
California - don't bother leaving the office in a slight drizzle, but you're still expected to work in 119F heat.?ÿ
