Shift Change

12 May 2008

We still do not have a chlorination system. Further assessment of the water tower found that the boards under the water tank were rotten. Tom Kamin insisted that they be replaced, so we spent much of the day obtaining new lumber for the top of the water tower. We also took Vic, Arthur and Betty to the airport and picked up our newest team member, Paul Maresca.

Paul is a member of the RAM Airborne team and has volunteered with RAM a few times. He just returned from Guyana two weeks ago after an airborne team mission to repair an airfield in the southern part of Guyana. The team did not have to skydive to gain access to the site, but they did find themselves in a situation requiring hard manual labor in a hot jungle environment. The airborne team always gets the toughest assignments.

Paul is an EMT from the East coast and works for AMR. He has been working on an ambulance for the last four years. He is also an experienced climber and seems to get along well with Ricki who is also an experienced climber. One interesting fact about Paul is that he learned to Skydive so that he could join the RAM Airborne team. He is an interesting person.

So by the end of the day, we had lost three team members and added one. We had replaced the lumber under the water tower. We have built an air vent to keep air pocket from forming in our standpipe. But we had not built a chlorination system.