The Issue with Rain

It was interesting walking around campus today, past the five or six construction sites, and seeing no men working on any of them. Now I had assumed that the workers would be out in the field today working because there was no lightning or thunder but that was not the case. The thing that makes me wonder about this is that when I worked as a labor at home during the summer time we would work through any weather other than lightning and if that was the case we would rarely even leave work. On one occasion we showed up to work around 7:00 am (the typical starting time) to find our site completely soaked from the past 24 hours rain and a complete mess; the bad thing though was that they had called for lightning until about 8:00 am. So we waited in the job trailer until about 8:00 am and started working just like any other day although it was a complete downpour. The reason we were able to work was because the lighting had cleared but the storm had not; so we got wet, really wet, but we didn't let that stop our work. It amazes me that these projects on campus which all have such tight schedules shut down for the day because of a little rain. It would be interesting to see what the different big companies in the country have for work policies in different weather situations. Maybe it is just the superintendent or the project managers call, but if I was the one in charge I would definitely have had the men out there today. The good thing about the rain is that you only get wet once. Attached are a couple of pictures from the signature engineering building and as you can see there are no men on site.

As you can see the site is pretty wet but it should not be a cause to stop work.