EVER PASS SOMETHING YOU DONT WANT TO LOOK AT,? YOU FIGHT IT, BUT YOURE HUMAN AND YOU LOOK.,. I WENT TO WEST AIRCOMM THIS MORNING, I WENT UP THE INDUSTRY SIDE OF THE RIVER, ITS CLOSER FOR ME. I SAW THE POWER PLANT COME INTO VIEW, I KNEW THEY ARE TEARING IT DOWN ON TWO SHIFTS. DAY AND EVENING. WHILE YOURE IN THE PLANT YOU CANT GET NEAR IT, THEY HAVE GUARDS AT THE TOP OF POWER PLANT HILL, BUT FROM ACROSS THE RIVER IT IS ALL IN VIEW,, THEY ARE TEARING DOWN OUR #2 UNIT FIRST, THEY HAVE PLASTIC SHEETING PULLED ALL OVER THE BOILER, AND AROUND TO THE CONTROL ROOM, TO CONTAIN THE ASBESTOS. I FELT LIKE THEY WERE TEARING DOWN MY HOUSE. I FEEL JUST AS BAD, I HAD HOPED SOMEONE FROM SHELL WOULD REALIZE IT COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED FROM THIS, AND DECIDE TO FIX ITS PROBLEMS, NO CHANCE OF THAT. HAVING WORKED MOST OF THE JOBS THERE I FEEL A LOSS. IT WAS EASY WORK, ON THE BODY, BUT MENTALLY IT WOULD TIRE YOU OUT JUST AS FAST.. I GUESS WHEN I WAS THERE I FELT I WAS DOING A JOB MANY COULD NOT. MANY CAME OFF THE HILL AND MANY WENT RIGHT BACK UP, SOME COULDNT HANDLE THE STRESS, AND THERE WAS TONS OF STRESS, WHEN THE POWER PLANT TRIPPED OUT THE WHOLE MILL WAS WAITING TO GET POWER BACK, GET POWER TO THOSE 17 ZINC FURNACES..STRESS OF ONE KNOB TURNED AT THE WRONG TIME AND YOU COULD DO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF DAMAGE. WHEN THEY DID AWAY WITH SHIFT FOREMEN 10 YEARS AGO I WENT TO THE FEED DEPT IN THE MILL, WHEN I WAS SHOWN MY JOB, AND I DONT MEAN TO DOWN PLAY WHAT THEY DO UP THERE, BUT I THOUGHT, IS THIS ALL I HAVE TO DO? WHEN THE LIGHTS WENT OUT I ROUNDED EVERYONE UP AND SAT, AND WAITED, SOMETIMES HOURS. NO STRESS AT ALL COMPARED TO ONE DAY AT THE POWER PLANT. I DONT KNOW I GUESS I FELT LIKE WHAT I DID AT THE POWER PLANT MATTERED, ON THE HILL I FELT LIKE A GERBIL ON A TREAD MILL, TIMING OUT MY 8 HOURS AND GOING HOME. 32 YEARS I SPENT THERE AND YOU CANT SPEND THAT MUCH TIME WITHOUT MAKING MANY FRIENDS AND MEMORIES. AND MEMORIES OF THE PLACE IS ALL I WILL HAVE VERY SHORTLY,, WHEN THEY BACK FILL THE HOLE THAT THEY DUG FOR THE PLANT IN 1957, THE GROUND IT SITS ON WILL NOT EVEN EXIST, MEMORIES ARE NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING, THEY JUST MAKE ME FEEL WORSE, TO THINK ALL THAT WE DID, ALL THE POWER WE MADE SINCE 1958 WILL ALL BE GONE..
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:22:24 +0000
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