Drill Bits and Dynamite Part Nine
That's all good and fine, except that there are no drill bits and no dynamite in this story. There are however.... trees falling out of the sky. That'll just have to do for now. This is back on the Sea to Sky project again. Cut 10 was in full swing with drilling and blasting operations. The tree fallers were working up above on the nasty Cut 9. I was in the parking lot above the Cut 10 job and started to notice that the traffic was starting to slow down and bunch up. On this narrow ribbon of highway it was always a sign of a problem when the traffic did this. It got to the point where there was no north-bound traffic at all. A minute later, south-bound ground to a halt. I called on the radio, asking if anybody knew what was up. It could be a broken down vehicle, one of our trucks dropped a rock...anything out of the ordinary would do it. One of the guys called back, yelling gibberish at the tip of his lungs. I asked him to repeat, so that I could understand him. Same th...