cross-winds

More bad weather this morning, 20kt crosswinds and misty light rain at Devon Island, so we're entering our third day here in Resolute. I'm exasperated because there's usually a mid-July break with several days of good weather, which I'd hoped to use to deploy and set up. Now, there's only a little over a week for the drill to be taken over, set up, tested, and brought back... if it slips much further, I may ask everyone to extend their stays. Can't do Arctic work on a tight time schedule....

We have two Twin Otters at our disposal today, being loaded... if/when the weather improves (after lunch?), we'll go quickly. For now... laundry. Morale is surprisingly good, thus far. And thanks to sarahh and Julie and runeshower for chatting, which helps my morale :).

local excitement...

(Note: must take up a collection to get one of these for dawnd once they're released... :)

This morning, the town was darkened... inside, by a power outage. A utility pole fire took out the supply lines running from the power plant to Resolute. Happened right in the middle of an IM conversation with tenacious_snail (who needed to be off to work anyway). Then a cleanup crew with a bulldozer managed to rupture the main gasoline feed line, spilling a few hundred gallons near the tank farm before it was contained. Fortunately, these two events were separated by a mile or so. But it was busy...

Not so for my crew, still here in Resolute. But we're planning to get two planes away in about two hours, and then two more around dinnertime.