Week 16 - My last week
My last week started with the seventh wettest day in the previous thirty years, with 157.4mm of rainfall over 24 hours. But in a couple of hours, after it stopped raining, everything had dried out and looked normal again. It certainly put paid to any paving happening as the stockpiles were saturated. We use this sophisticated 3D model to track progress. Made by the TuSRAP Interns using paper and monopoly houses & hotels During the rest of the week, we only got two shifts of runway asphalted due to further rain, leaving a little over half to do next year. Saturday was a tidy-up day, and we prepared everything for the Christmas break. Last Saturday, a small Piper Navajo Chieftain DQ-LIA arrived as a medivac plane for the Google Cable Project. As we still occupied the old apron, the alternative parking area for planes, I suggested the Piper could park in front of the Air Traffic Control building as we had done our asphalt trial there. The levels were all good for pushing a light ...