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January 11, 2006
Mud
I guess we have entered the rainy season finally. The other night it rained pretty steadily for a few hours. The mud created is simply incredible. The soil here is more accurately described as dust on top of dirt. Even with just a light mist, it sticks to your boots and after taking 4 or 5 steps, you have a few pounds of extra weight on each foot - it even picks up the golf-ball sized gravel we have around to help with that very problem. After more signficant rains, like and inch or two, the clay-consistent mud actually blocks more water from seeping into the ground below and there are lakes everywhere. The other day, we had to inventory some equipment and our storage bin had a 6-inch deep mini-lake right in front of it. It took 2 days for my boots to dry.
I must say that it is fun to drive the humvee through it though :)
Posted by TJ at January 11, 2006 11:27 AM
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Good to see you here again. Some of the guys I supported last winter said they wore trash bags on their boots and would just take them off before going into their chus. I remember mud season back east but I can't imagine how it must be with that powdery sand there.
Do Humvees do donuts?
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at January 13, 2006 08:49 AM
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