Mae Sai 05/23-2010 8" Pipe

We are beat but relieved that the 8" drain line to the street drain is in the ground, tested and back filled with sand.

Everything went pretty good with the new crew except one of the workers was hurt badly yesterday. What happened is he was cutting some rebar with a 4" grinder using a thin cut off blade but no guard on the grinder. You guessed it, the blade broke and a piece went into his eye.

The part that pissed me off is everyone just kind of hung around not taking any action to get him to a hospital. I called Daeng, who was at the afternoon market. She rushed home and demanded that they take him to the hospital, right now!

The good news is we were told today that his eye will be okay. We were relieved to hear that as when I looked it was cut pretty deep into the eye lid.

We both are happy that this 8" pipe project in done. All we have to do is some concrete work and a few odds and ends and we can leave Mae Sai for three months.

I'm going to turn in early tonight as this 68 year old body is tired from working with the big pipe.

Tomorrow, it's electrical, finish kitchen and replace one broken tile in bathroom. Then back roof repair, eves trough replacement and repair roof drain pipe.