What greeted me yesterday

I have a project going that is replacing all the tile on the front of a house where a windstorm blew a tree onto the roof. It has its' challenges. The driveway is so steep and twisting that trucks can't make it down, so I have to haul the old tile to the dumpster with a pickup.

We had another windstorm Thursday night and another trunk of the same tree came down blocking the driveway and knocking out a power pole.

It also knocked a transformer loose from the pole. There was a slick on the road where the transformer landed. I advised my crew not to walk in it, it probably contained pcb's. But because walking around it was an extra 100', 2 guys continued to walk through it whenever they had to go to their trucks. At about 2 in the afternoon the fire department shows up, blocks off the road (a dead end street) and brings in a hazmat team.

After the fireman tells the two guys about the pcb's, exactly as I had told them earlier, they all of a sudden get all paranoid and spend the rest of the day fretting about getting cancer. Idiots.

I also had to wait an extra hour on the job before the firemen would allow me to drive out, even though at lunch I had driven through the slick twice.

I think I'll be OK, Chuck. Between labor and profit, I'm in around $650 per square. I got the restoration company to spring for a forklift rental when my supplier refused to deliver, as well.

I don't know what to say except I hope you bid strong enough and better luck on the next one. :dry: