Monthly Archives: January 2017
Frack By Night . . .
Last night was a little quieter than last night, with only about 20 trucks coming in, so not bad at all.
Except for the rain. And rain. And more rain.
It wasn’t long until the entire pad was flooded, especially the potty trailer area.
What wasn’t under six inches of water, was just six inches of mud. Very heavy, very sticky mud. Your boot would sink in and it was hard to pull it back out.
But even rain doesn’t stop the frack. Nearby lightning, yes, rain, even heavy rain, no.
Otherwise the crane is just one big lightning rod.
And it doesn’t stop at night either. With enough light, they just keep going.
It’s looking more and more likely we’ll move over to Westhoff. a town without a traffic light, just a two-way stop sign in the center of town. But instead of a 2 hour round trip back to Kenedy, we’ll only have about 10 minutes. Much nicer.
And much cheaper, with both gas and park rent.
Thought for the Day:
Movie theater popcorn cost more per ounce than filet mignon.
Who hadn’t already figured this out?
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First Night on the Gate . . .
Well, Jan and I survived our first night shift on the gate, her as Gate Guard out by the highway in the guard shack and me working out of my truck on the pad, 5 miles inside the gate.
The night went fairly fast, with the only downside when it rained for a bit and turned my little corner of the pad into a mudhole.
The route into the pad is very convoluted, with a lot of turns, Y’s, T’s, and deadends. There is maybe 40 pads spread out over miles of roads, none of which are on any map or GPS.
I’m really glad I drove out there on Saturday in the daylight, otherwise I might have had a problem too. But, although no roads show up on the GPS, it does leave a trail of blue dots on the screen that I can now follow in and out.
One guy left the pad about 7:30pm heading home for the night. The he showed back up about an hour later, lost and bewildered. I guess I got him back on track because he never showed back up.
Of course he could just still be driving around out there somewhere.
The whole phone thing continues to confused. I was happy to see that we have a good signal and can make calls from the proposed new RV park, so that’s a plus for moving.
But on the strange side, apparently, although I can’t make calls from that area, I can receive them. My friend, Nick Russell, called me right at 5pm right after I got to the pad after dropping Jan off.
Weird.
And of course I still have text and data.
Landon’s doing the flag football think this year.
Looks like he’s having fun.
Since I can’t do the blog from our gate right now, new blogs may be kind of intermittent. But I’ll get them up when I can.
Thought for the Day:
“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.” Tacitus
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