Complaining on the Job in 1832,?ÿ guess he wasn't from the South.?ÿ In the original field notes.
1875 notes in the O.T. read something like:?ÿ Mosquitoes and flies are everywhere making it hard to even breath.?ÿ The men cover their faces as best they can but their spirit is suffering.
I've got a copy of it somewhere but can't seem to find it now.?ÿ I wonder what a "suffering spirit" sounded like in 1875...?ÿ 😉
That sounds like the Summer of 1995.?ÿ Gnats.?ÿ Billions of gnats.?ÿ Couldn't draw a breath without inhaling a few.?ÿ Needed Covid masks, I guess.?ÿ But, then, when you put your eye to the scope you had to pull a few out of your eye lashes and blow away those hovering by the lens.?ÿ We were on a road project gathering a thousand or more points all day, every day.
I pulled up to a job in Nebraska, circa 1980. We were going to run cross-sections and?ÿ a profile through a little draw at the edge of a subdivision; for designing a new sewer line. So we pull into this short, dead end street and it looks like this draw is on fire. Upon closer observation; it's not on fire, those are gnats! Billions and billions of gnats!
Making it almost intolerable...
Mosquitoes and flies are everywhere making it hard to even breath.?ÿ The men cover their faces as best they can but their spirit is suffering.
Sounds like just the place to re-settle the Indians.
Must be a city slicker.
I'm not going to get a minute of sleep tonight after reading that post.
Was surveying beside a big ditch on the Currituck peninsula one summer in knee deep weeds.?ÿ Suddenly started seeing little frogs jumping all over the place.?ÿ Next thing all over the place were copperheads!?ÿ Lots of them!?ÿ After that, a couple surveyors might have been seen jumping all over the place!;)?ÿ No one got bit that I know of. Funny now!
@j-holt gross.
@learner yuk.?ÿ I cannot click "like".
The guy should have quit surveying and become something like an accountant.
@j-holt typical Texas survey...