I now live on Mars
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We’ve gotten a bit of favorable winds which allowed the planes to go in and drop water and our smoke has diminished by 50% which means it’s about 20% of what Jexnell is seeing. It’s still difficult working though, so I’m keeping heavy labor to a minimum.
I went out to the boat yard today and swept up a pile of ash and sawdust in metal shavings from my previous efforts in building a service cart and now I am working on my wooden workbench.
Because the smoke is lifted we went out driving and I took my wife to see the school complex that I did the structural drawings on about six years ago.
But that’s not the whole story because the High school stadium (which has been completed for about 10 years now) first hit my desk in 1996. The high school never got built.
Between then and now we designed (and construction was completed on) the elementary school and middle school in this town ship; but the high school has been on hold since we completed the drawings in late 2014. So I retired not knowing if it would ever actually be built, and in spite of some code changes made to the plans after I left it is out of the ground . . . finally!
That green stuff is Exterior grade gypsum board and it will all be clad in metal, concrete, and glass.The gymnasium is just steel framing at this point though.
On the same square mile we did the Glacier Point middle school and also the Harvest elementary school.
I went out to the boat yard today and swept up a pile of ash and sawdust in metal shavings from my previous efforts in building a service cart and now I am working on my wooden workbench.
Because the smoke is lifted we went out driving and I took my wife to see the school complex that I did the structural drawings on about six years ago.
But that’s not the whole story because the High school stadium (which has been completed for about 10 years now) first hit my desk in 1996. The high school never got built.
Between then and now we designed (and construction was completed on) the elementary school and middle school in this town ship; but the high school has been on hold since we completed the drawings in late 2014. So I retired not knowing if it would ever actually be built, and in spite of some code changes made to the plans after I left it is out of the ground . . . finally!
That green stuff is Exterior grade gypsum board and it will all be clad in metal, concrete, and glass.The gymnasium is just steel framing at this point though.
On the same square mile we did the Glacier Point middle school and also the Harvest elementary school.
glacier point and harvest elementary have both been done for years but the high school was a long time coming ( In the planning stages since 1990!)
Ionly got photographs of half the new buildings. I also got nothing of the stadium, so when the school is completed I will put up a tour of the whole business in photographs.
Here’s a long shot photograph of glacier point and a Closer photograph of the braced framing on a typ classroom.
Ionly got photographs of half the new buildings. I also got nothing of the stadium, so when the school is completed I will put up a tour of the whole business in photographs.
Here’s a long shot photograph of glacier point and a Closer photograph of the braced framing on a typ classroom.
Today's noon report
The sun is a smidgen brighter than yesterday, still socked in tho. Air quality is still horrible, starting to worry about my birds. Unlike us they use 100% of their lungs all the time. There is no reserve like we have. To get more air they increase respiration rate. I mention this cause I saw three dead small birds on my trip to the store. No outward trauma so I am guessing smoke inhalation. Since this all, this smoke, started rolling in I have not let them out for their normal flight exercise time.
The sun is a smidgen brighter than yesterday, still socked in tho. Air quality is still horrible, starting to worry about my birds. Unlike us they use 100% of their lungs all the time. There is no reserve like we have. To get more air they increase respiration rate. I mention this cause I saw three dead small birds on my trip to the store. No outward trauma so I am guessing smoke inhalation. Since this all, this smoke, started rolling in I have not let them out for their normal flight exercise time.
Well we got a brief rain in Fresno County this morning, and I’m hoping they got a better one up on the mountain side where the fires are still going.
Anyhow the air quality today is the best it’s been in months. Before the Big Creek fire up above us, we were suffering all the smoke from the complex fires in the bay area.
I felt that this was coming when I saw that forecast off the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately I was hoping for a much more substantial rainfall and this was not it.
Anyhow the air quality today is the best it’s been in months. Before the Big Creek fire up above us, we were suffering all the smoke from the complex fires in the bay area.
I felt that this was coming when I saw that forecast off the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately I was hoping for a much more substantial rainfall and this was not it.
