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<blockquote data-quote="InDaShop" data-source="post: 677355" data-attributes="member: 1295"><p>Thurs:</p><p>I wake to Chris Sommers (Sommertime) texting me about some pumps and if my neighborhood was Sienna Plantation as he got inquiries for some Barco Pumps. I make some calls, and its legit, which that is disheartening to here. The Sheriff stops by and asks me to haul a load of Deputies into the flooded sections for assessments in the Humvee. </p><p>I get a call about do I have the ability to offload pumps (I thought it was Sommers/Barco only, it was not) Yeah I have access to anything you want, and the trucks to haul them down the levee to a location to offload. </p><p>That call was the Head Engineer for the Levee system. He asks me to be at a meeting early afternoon on the south levee where our levee runs east/west Brazos River on the West, HWY 521 on the east. I am the impromptu Barco Rep. They had 5 pump co's there, and being a resident, being the next door neighbor to the Levee District's attorney, and being the guy bringing all the equipment to offload and move the pumps, I got Barco to the front of the line. BOOM! </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/DBA691D2-5699-419F-A4B6-173DEF58C7B5_zpszhm7jjmr.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/DBA691D2-5699-419F-A4B6-173DEF58C7B5_zpszhm7jjmr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Sluff #1</p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/99F8DE17-0B9D-4C48-8CD2-7963A9434B85_zps7bnynkmm.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/99F8DE17-0B9D-4C48-8CD2-7963A9434B85_zps7bnynkmm.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/19878FBB-7BA6-4883-AC60-9BF8D616E73F_zpsmvulsm6c.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/19878FBB-7BA6-4883-AC60-9BF8D616E73F_zpsmvulsm6c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now we assess the job. Levee was so damn saturated wet we couldn't drive on it at all. Even the Polaris were leaving ruts. Well guess who I was borrowing the rubber tire loader from to unload pumps, my buddy that owns a oilfield mat company right up the road. BOOM again. So I sell the engineer on us mat'ing 2000' of levee overnight and be ready fro Sommers/Barco pumps by the am. We worked all night and got it done. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/230FB242-1424-4A51-AA03-35216A8915F6_zpskqcb2uxe.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/230FB242-1424-4A51-AA03-35216A8915F6_zpskqcb2uxe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/8942F9B4-34B5-43D1-8648-48BB9F888584_zps3530ipmh.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/8942F9B4-34B5-43D1-8648-48BB9F888584_zps3530ipmh.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/CE1E67E5-D4D8-48F2-A607-D6D1474D7A58_zpsrvv94hrr.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/CE1E67E5-D4D8-48F2-A607-D6D1474D7A58_zpsrvv94hrr.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Also in here, I had committed to deliver medicine to people stranded in homes that flooded before they could get out. People had been dropping off at my house, but I couldnt get it done, so I had my wife do it. Shes a HERO. Literally has refused to learn how to drive the humvee. Its not exactly hard, but its harder than just jumping in and turning the key. So why not walk her through it on the phone, then send her into 40" deep flood waters???? She and another girlfriend did it, then brought us all dinner down on the south levee. True rockstar badass heros! </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/9627A2D9-B343-4AB1-BA21-EFB619E20DCE_zpsiwzbwp6k.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/9627A2D9-B343-4AB1-BA21-EFB619E20DCE_zpsiwzbwp6k.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Fri: </p><p>Sleep 2 hrs maybe. Meet the Sheriff at 8am and haul his Deputies around for an hour in flood water. Then haul ass for the jobsite. Get there to be greeted by 12 Deputies, and a mass of protestors. They are protesting us pumping ans saying its already flooding them out. The pumps were still in Wylie, TX 5 hours away being loaded. The river was still rising and had not crest yet. Situation gets diffused. </p><p>I left with the Levee Engineers on a polaris and road levee until we got reports of shots fired at the jobsite. Yes, some farmer fired a rifle down the way up towards the levee through the woods. Thats in, that site is off. All the work the night before for nothing. Engineers abandon the site because no one would man pumps. Sheriff advises we cease operations there because of threats to shoot out pumps after dark. </p><p>**** ****! </p><p></p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/C8103047-ACCE-49C3-973A-BEE783DE53B0_zpsodl7w464.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/C8103047-ACCE-49C3-973A-BEE783DE53B0_zpsodl7w464.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Addressing protesters who threatened a human chain</p><p><a href="http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/EC51BE41-E295-4D83-992C-B071376362E6_zpsjs2igoqe.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/EC51BE41-E295-4D83-992C-B071376362E6_zpsjs2igoqe.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InDaShop, post: 677355, member: 1295"] Thurs: I wake to Chris Sommers (Sommertime) texting me about some pumps and if my neighborhood was Sienna Plantation as he got inquiries for some Barco Pumps. I make some calls, and its legit, which that is disheartening to here. The Sheriff stops by and asks me to haul a load of Deputies into the flooded sections for assessments in the Humvee. I get a call about do I have the ability to offload pumps (I thought it was Sommers/Barco only, it was not) Yeah I have access to anything you want, and the trucks to haul them down the levee to a location to offload. That call was the Head Engineer for the Levee system. He asks me to be at a meeting early afternoon on the south levee where our levee runs east/west Brazos River on the West, HWY 521 on the east. I am the impromptu Barco Rep. They had 5 pump co's there, and being a resident, being the next door neighbor to the Levee District's attorney, and being the guy bringing all the equipment to offload and move the pumps, I got Barco to the front of the line. BOOM! [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/DBA691D2-5699-419F-A4B6-173DEF58C7B5_zpszhm7jjmr.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/DBA691D2-5699-419F-A4B6-173DEF58C7B5_zpszhm7jjmr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Sluff #1 [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/99F8DE17-0B9D-4C48-8CD2-7963A9434B85_zps7bnynkmm.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/99F8DE17-0B9D-4C48-8CD2-7963A9434B85_zps7bnynkmm.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/19878FBB-7BA6-4883-AC60-9BF8D616E73F_zpsmvulsm6c.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/19878FBB-7BA6-4883-AC60-9BF8D616E73F_zpsmvulsm6c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Now we assess the job. Levee was so damn saturated wet we couldn't drive on it at all. Even the Polaris were leaving ruts. Well guess who I was borrowing the rubber tire loader from to unload pumps, my buddy that owns a oilfield mat company right up the road. BOOM again. So I sell the engineer on us mat'ing 2000' of levee overnight and be ready fro Sommers/Barco pumps by the am. We worked all night and got it done. [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/230FB242-1424-4A51-AA03-35216A8915F6_zpskqcb2uxe.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/230FB242-1424-4A51-AA03-35216A8915F6_zpskqcb2uxe.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/8942F9B4-34B5-43D1-8648-48BB9F888584_zps3530ipmh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/8942F9B4-34B5-43D1-8648-48BB9F888584_zps3530ipmh.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/CE1E67E5-D4D8-48F2-A607-D6D1474D7A58_zpsrvv94hrr.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/CE1E67E5-D4D8-48F2-A607-D6D1474D7A58_zpsrvv94hrr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Also in here, I had committed to deliver medicine to people stranded in homes that flooded before they could get out. People had been dropping off at my house, but I couldnt get it done, so I had my wife do it. Shes a HERO. Literally has refused to learn how to drive the humvee. Its not exactly hard, but its harder than just jumping in and turning the key. So why not walk her through it on the phone, then send her into 40" deep flood waters???? She and another girlfriend did it, then brought us all dinner down on the south levee. True rockstar badass heros! [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/9627A2D9-B343-4AB1-BA21-EFB619E20DCE_zpsiwzbwp6k.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/9627A2D9-B343-4AB1-BA21-EFB619E20DCE_zpsiwzbwp6k.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Fri: Sleep 2 hrs maybe. Meet the Sheriff at 8am and haul his Deputies around for an hour in flood water. Then haul ass for the jobsite. Get there to be greeted by 12 Deputies, and a mass of protestors. They are protesting us pumping ans saying its already flooding them out. The pumps were still in Wylie, TX 5 hours away being loaded. The river was still rising and had not crest yet. Situation gets diffused. I left with the Levee Engineers on a polaris and road levee until we got reports of shots fired at the jobsite. Yes, some farmer fired a rifle down the way up towards the levee through the woods. Thats in, that site is off. All the work the night before for nothing. Engineers abandon the site because no one would man pumps. Sheriff advises we cease operations there because of threats to shoot out pumps after dark. **** ****! [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/C8103047-ACCE-49C3-973A-BEE783DE53B0_zpsodl7w464.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/C8103047-ACCE-49C3-973A-BEE783DE53B0_zpsodl7w464.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Addressing protesters who threatened a human chain [URL=http://s76.photobucket.com/user/InDashop/media/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/EC51BE41-E295-4D83-992C-B071376362E6_zpsjs2igoqe.jpg.html][IMG]http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j19/InDashop/2017%20Hurricane%20Harvey/EC51BE41-E295-4D83-992C-B071376362E6_zpsjs2igoqe.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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