The rate of progress

The room with the view. The view from the room. Aka building work from my apartment balcony. Last night some steel girders were delivered  however there seems to be very little  notable progress in the last two weeks, although activity is still as zealous as ever. Digging holes, steel wire pushed into the ground and cubic meters of concrete poured into the random holes.

It is interesting to note that when the building site was at its busiest during the nocturnal hours with concrete trucks,  digging etc, huge concrete blocks and girders were delivered. Subsequently these were stacked, restacked, unstacked and then taken away. Now we have the girders back. An addition to the construction site is gallons and gallons of water making the ground surface quite a quagmire. I watched one chap wade, thigh high through the sludge. Possibly an unwelcome addition to the site will be the onset of the wet season, which now seems quite imminent.

We are beginning to get a dollop of heavy rain now every few days and the locals talk of the imminent arrival of the wet season, which appears to be a little early. Conversely we are also experiencing some very high humid temperatures. 38 degrees at 3:30 pm on Friday.  Some days the rain is welcome relief for me. I wonder how my friends below in the midst of this construction feel?