This week has been particularly poor! The weather has been fairly shocking with constant winds of over 30 Knots. The four people that are out in the field at the moment were due back on Saturday but due to the weather are unable to pack up their campsite and come back to base. They have been laid up inside their tents for over four consecutive days. I have been in this situation at the Sky Blue base during the summer and there is only playing cards and reading to pass the time, and of course sleeping!
Unfortunately during the summer the base had a contaminated fuel delivery which is now causing problems for Kenny our Generator mechanic. Running out of fuel filters fast, we seem to have a power down at least twice week which is unavoidable. Every time the power comes back on everyone has about an hours work each, re-setting breakers, priming water pumps and resetting all the radio and Internet gear. Doesn't really help when two of the people stuck out in the field are the Plumber and Electronics engineer.
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