Not a good day for daddy!

So I thought I would use this blog to post an interesting story that developed during the night. For the last month or so Gary has been very busy working at the Des Moines Airport putting the footing in for a maintanence hangar for Mesaba Airlines. We have not seen Gary much this past month, and there have been a lot of late nights and early mornings. Gary was very excited to be done with this job. Infact, Gary just finished his work at the jobsite last night and he was so relieved it was over and that he was going to be moving on to a new job. That was last night...

Well last night we had some pretty bad weather around the Des Moines/Central Iowa area. At about 6:00 am this morning I felt a couple taps and woke up to see Gary at the side of my bed. He said, "So you'll never believe what happened last night. I was just eating breakfast and all of a sudden my jobsite comes on the news and my jaw just dropped. There was 60-70 mph winds last night at the airport and the whole Mesaba hangar that I've been working at for the last month plus was completely blown over. So everything the steel workers have been working on, everything I've been working on was just done in vain. It's a total loss, you should come down and see the pictures."

What happened was last night at about 10:00 pm the steal started buckling and then the whole structure collapsed. Gary has been down at the site all morning meeting with the engineers and city officials and he said that there is steal beams that were blown about 20 feet from were they originally were and he said there was 2-in anchor bolts that were completely snapped. The good new is that Gary's work held up and it did exactly what it was suppose to do, the bad news is that the structure has now been weakened so they have to rip it all up and start from new. Here are some pictures of his jobsite, I am hoping to find better ones. Click here to go to a news story about it.