By Eric Wade
Rain
we need it. Sometimes we want it. Without it the world would shrivel up and
die, but rain always seems to come at the wrong time.
It comes
on the long commutes home, or walking to campus. Rain comes on the weekends, or
when at an outdoor wedding. For me the rain comes when I need to get something
done.
I
work outside, at least until I’m done with school, so the weather plays a large
part in my day. If it rains we usually go home, but over the last week there
has been a push to get or job done. The problem is that the weather has fought
use at every turn .
Last
week we needed to set trusses on the house we are building, and so we hired a
crane to lift them for us. The day that was scheduled for the crane to show up,
rain was in the forecast. The time agreed by the crane operator came and went,
and no crane was in sight. I called him and he didn’t answer. I figured he cancelled
due to rain. This presented a problem, for it hadn’t started to rain yet, and
if he were there we could have gotten the job done before the weather changed.
I called a backup crane operator and he agreed
to help us, but it would be later in the day. By the time he got there, the
rain had moved in, the wind had picked up and the temperature dropped. The job
needed to be done.
He pulled and set up his rig well
after the sky opened up. It was extreme, and exhilarating to be two stories in
the air, with trusses flapping in the breeze. It was almost fun, but it was terrifying
at the same time. We finished the job. The weather and events tried to stop us,
but we won, and all when it was said and done, it felt like we won.
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