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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Luck in Hindsight

This is Steven Petrick posting.

Yesterday we spent a chunk of the day making the first shift of material from the warehouse to the off site storage facility.

In hindsight, we had incredibly good luck in this move.

To begin, it rained fairly heavily Sunday and through most of Sunday night. Rain continued off and on Monday, and remained mostly overcast, which kept temperatures down.

Shifting cargo is a lot easier to do when it is in the 70s Fahrenheit than in the high 90s or low 100s.

The truck arrived late, happening to arrive at the warehouse during one of the periods when no precipitation was falling.

We got the cargo loaded and reached the off-site with no trouble. Opening the door, a new stroke of luck. The rain on Sunday had created puddles inside which let us immediately identify where the leaks were. The puddles remained because it was too cool outside for them to have evaporated before we got there. This allowed us to adjust our plan to use the space to optimize avoiding the leaks.

Better, we headed back to get a tarp to cover the products we were storing, and by the time we got back it had started raining yet again, just enough to verify exactly where the leaks were and that nothing we had was under them, but not bad enough to cause us any discomfort.

We could not have had better weather for the operation if we had tailor made it.

We are stuck with the leaks, but they are not going to be significant problems. We are very lucky that it was raining when we occupied the site, as if it had not been, we might have stuck pallets in places where the water would have gotten to them in the intervening period.

This is luck in hindsight.