a few pics ... what a fight... I'm all wore out ... unrelenting wind towards 100 mph ... (reminder to self ... goggles! stops the eyeballs from being lacerated by the ice crystals... )
...even the surveying mons couldn't hold up ...
The winds destroyed the windsock at the Chevak airstrip...
... just daydreaming of Oregon ....
Yikes! I'm glad its you and not me there right about now....
Just testing to see if my dancing banana works...
You guys get the award for tough duty... I would have waited until it at least dropped to 40. 🙂 Stay safe out there Daryl. BTW, see if you can get that post re-habed!
Daryl,
That is one of the best resume's I've seen for prospective employers yet!! You're ability to work under duress. You're ability to go the necessary 120% or more...You're ability to provide deliverables no matter what timeline...the list goes on and on, and only from just a few pic's!...Stay safe and the day awaits that I may toast a good porter in your name for your dedication and efforts.
Pablo
The other day you posted on your visit to the air museum because your gig had been postponed...then I saw the big storm headin' to Alaska. Thought of you but figured it would be a typical weather channel dud. Looks like the real thing in your pics!!! My daughter decieded not to go back to the ski patrol at Alyeska this year, glad she is not there if this is what Winter will look like!!
Be careful and safe, Derzu..I mean Daryl.
Seeing your pictures brought a flash of Jeremiah Johnson finding fellow trapper frozen and still holding his rifle.
Keep you powder dry....
I'll never complain about working in the Florida summers again!
Brrr!
Usually when viewing your photo's I am overcome with a feeling of jealousy... I must say, today that is not the case. lol. Very cool though! Working in the worst storm Alaska has seen in over 40 years... That is some real man stuff there!
They were calling it a Snowicane on the channel I was watching.
I wonder how many SE surveyors set monuments when it's raining sideways...;-)
Stay safe my friend.
Dugger
Some pc of equimpent probably hit the mon. Snowmobile, or truck. Seams reasonable to set them flush up there. And, I would ENJOY working with you. With proper equipment, of course! Thanks for the photos.
N
Be careful out there!
You need to learn those seven important words all surveyors need to know; "My equipment won’t function in these conditions.";-)
@Nate, undoubtedly a snowmachine (snowmobile for midwesteners) hit the pipe. It is out of the ground so far due to years and years of the permafrost pushing up on the monument flange which is in the active layer (6" of ground that thaws each year above permafrost).
Had to go put on a coat just to sit here and finish looking at your photos.
OK, I was just guessing.... but what you said raises some more questions:
HOW do you set a stable mon, in Alaska?
Nate
I have worked in Adak Island, Alaska multi-weather
and Naples, Florida summers.
I would have an instrument that said shutting down too bloody cold!
Any rate Daryl given tis Sunday and over 31 C here in S OZ ,shall have a nice coooool ale!
And yes I am just wearing a pair of shorts......
RADU
PS no use applying for a job in S OZ as we do not get snow......LOL !
...check this one out...bent nearly 90 degrees... a 2 1/2 in. diam. stainless steel monument...the most durable and strongest mass produced survey monument in the history of surveying markers ... .couldn't a done that snow machine much good...
... got pounded today...wind in the mid sixties...The four wheeler became useless because of the growing snow drifts so we got a snow machine this morning and tested it out by burying it in one of those snow drifts... after getting it out and on to the airstrip a couple three miles away we made a consensus ... Frig This! ... ..its just wearing..
The place where we are staying and hunkered down is a frame building of plywood...shudders and shakes with the wind...I'm going.. Jeeez, I hope this thing doesn't come apart...
..seems to be settling down now...mid forties..
Y'all don't set type A geodetic monuments up there? I would think a 70' or 80' smooth rod would be less susceptible to heave. When working in Pa. I noticed all the fire hydrants had 8' flags on them for the very reason of snow plows.
...but no mosquitoes or bears to worry about. Small consolation I know.
Is this the airstrip topo for the Alaska DOT you were talking about in Tacoma?
Stay safe Daryl.
Doug