Saturday, September 15, 2007

Thought We Struck Oil

One of the Russian guys (barelee spiks inglesh) who is working (perpetually wandering around more like it) on the site calls me and is shouting...KREEES KREEES shotin allova, evriwaya .....KOOM EER KWIK.... So I make a bee line to the site to find this.... but what is it?

At first I thought we could hang up the dolphinarium and just make 70 bucks a barrel, but it was not black. I asked him what happened (through my other Russian person who spiks goot inglesh) and as it turns out a truck was trying to hoist a generator set and its axle weight fell through a small sink hole breaking a high pressure irrigation pipe that had leaked and made an underground void. The truck wheel sank in and broke the pipe. Needless to say the crane driver was shocked to see a funnel of water shooting into his open window.

This is just one of many weird things that have plagued this project. Afterwards the massive amounts of water formed a small lake, which generated millions of mosquito's that plagued us for weeks. The pipe was fixed... now were waiting for Murphy's next act.

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