Rain!!

The photo is me gettin my M-ATV certificate.

Well, a little bit of rain.  It's cold, dark and windy today and then we got some sprinkling action.  I doubt it was enough to knock the dust down, but we'll see tomorrow.  This whole area is desert-like with waddies running through it.  There are a bunch on the FOB as well.  I was told this afternoon that when they got a big rain in the summer the waddies filled up and people were tubing down them.  Sounds like fun, unless you tube right out of the FOB!!  That wouldn't happen but it'd be kind of funny at first.  I'll take a picture of a waddie so y'all know what I'm talking about.

 

I forgot to mention that we ran out of water sometime 2 nights ago.  It was not a good feeling when I hit the shower handle yesterday morning and nothing happened.  I went out to the pump house to see what was going on because the relays on the pumps have a hard time pulling in when needed.  The pumps were fine, just no water.  We finally got some about 6:30 that evening.  Hopefully that won't happen again for awhile.  Trying to get water at the last minute is like trying to get a last minute to the Iron Bowl this year, it's gonna cost ya.

 

Also, I just got done helping disable the fire alarm panel in the bunk house.  Electricity isn't really their thing over here.  There aren't to many Afghans proficient in electrical installation.  Panels tend to spark, wiring not correct, people getting shocked, etc....  We found the sensor causing the problem, but I'm sure we don't have any spares.  It'll have to be worked on tomorrow, along with labeling the circuit breaker panels, labeling the wires, etc, etc.....