This week marked the start of Single Parent Season for Susan. I was down in Nova Scotia to kick of a busy few weeks of travel. My trip coincided with some heavy rainfalls for the Nova Scotia area. When I picked up my rental car, the girl asked which way I was headed, I said Keji and she said it wasn’t too bad down there.
Up towards Truro, there was heavy flooding due to the 100mm rainfalls and timing with high tide. Here is a picture from the internet of one of the on-ramps to the 102 highway. When we were down in August we drove on this street.
I was working down at Kejimkujik National Park, moving along on our new site within the park. I was down to do the installation of our new instrument field, working with the regional staff and some contractors. The site is located near an old farmstead from the 1920’s, so there are some areas of archeological interest. The guy in the picture with the white hard hat is an archeologist brought in to watch every bucketful of earth dug up. If something turned up all work would have to cease.
Not often you see a bobcat get stuck, but with the 85mm of rain the site received over Sunday-Monday and probably hitting a hole from the de-stumping, it did delay things awhile.
As well as digging and pouring cornet, we were trenching and running power and signal cables.
Things were moving along until the holes/sonotubes started to fill up with water.
We were back at it early Wednesday morning, you can see the dirt steaming in the early morning sun.
After replacing some of the sonotubes that had collapsed, the cement truck arrived and then things started moving. After a couple of days of standing around and watching, it was non-stop for most of the afternoon. Despite the tight schedule we completed this step and I didn’t have to reschedule my flight.
I’ll be back down in the near future to mark out our building location and finish up the instrument field.
