Extreme Weather Part 1

this is Jack and Lucia and we're here to talk about extreme weather.

So look what extreme weather, extreme weather is.

A lot of unforeseen national events.

Second occur any time on or anywhere on the job site that could really mess

up the flow of the job or totally halt the job and anywhere involving construction

now for us,

at least I'm working in texas for faulty and Jack's working New Jersey quality.

So we decided to look at the issues that we're

going to involve us specifically on our job sites.

Me being in texas and Jack in New Jersey.

I want to go a little in depth on texas and my issues. I'm gonna foresee here

and Jackson talking about little about New Jersey and thinks

he's dealt with and could see having his job sets.

So texas recently in the past couple of years have had really

goofy winters and texas as a really hot state as it is,

has never seen a lot of snow like the rest of the Northeast like we see here today.

So texas never could see what's a winter issue or within the winter,

extreme weather event.

So they've never prepared for it.

They're used to the hot blazing sun, the heat waves and everything like that.

Never expect the snow. So something like that happens again.

Hopefully the state of texas could be more prepared. We'll have to see in the future.

But in extreme weather conditions or extreme weather in this instance of

like a snow squall or getting a foot of snow in texas is

something extreme because this type of climate zone is not used to

this type of weather now for the normal time during the year,

you could see the possibility of tornadoes in the state since it's a very flat state,

not a lot of hills and valleys, like up in the Northeast tornadoes,

you get knocked out, hurricanes are knocked out by the amount of hills and valleys.

Text on the other hand is a tire flat state,

so it's very easy to, you know, when you get really thunderstorms,

they can cause tornadoes, tornadoes can cause holiday on job sites that could stop

or even damaged existing

job sites. So we really couldn't.

So like I was saying with tornadoes in texas,

it could be caused a lot of issues on the

job sites stopping or halting job sites for a long period

of time or a short period of time and if it

caused damages to the existing structures that it's not finished,

it could set the job back days, weeks, maybe months, you know?

So in this instance is also, you know,

fires have been raging a lot across the country and what's causing these fires,

we don't hunt percent, No, it could be the type of storm that's happening lightning,

some dude with a gas can and we don't know,

so especially in texas where everything is a lot of dry,

something like this could ravage a job site where we say

a fire gets caught in the thunderstorm and lightning strikes something,

it could burn down the majority of the house,

you know,

so like a lot of these interesting extreme

weather conditions are never gonna be predicted.

You know, the weather can only be predicted so much to so in detail,

but you know, anticipating this kind of,

You know, extreme weather conditions, especially on job sites,

if you're never going to properly be able to say Okay,

tonight is gonna come on June one and we can totally stop

by June one and today it comes and doesn't write anything.

But since the technology of today's times there's nowhere

near advance to do that kind of stuff.

We have to take every day with the greatest, you know, like grant of rights, you know,

take every day by day and just see how it goes.

You know, there's a lot to get into,

especially weather conditions in texas and you know in New Jersey or even

across the rest of the country or the rest of the world,

you know, very fortunate to have a very good labor force to, you know,

when something bad happens like this in

the extreme whether that the subcontractors,

the general contractors and all the laborers are able to repair

and quickly try to correct it as soon as possible.

But as to build the generation of the construction

industry makes up a large percentage of our workforce,

it's going to be difficult to say make everything proper

and as fast as I can hitting the deadlines,

it's gonna be difficult if we don't have the proper people to fix this kind of stuff,

you know, especially in texas, you know, there's a, it's booming in texas, you know,

and they could say the south of the country is the biggest boom for our industry,

especially in texas, you know, I'm gonna be working at Northwest Austin,

but Austin, Houston Dallas,

a lot of these bigger cities in this area are thriving with industry,

you know, a few years ago

they hit the,

they had the flood a few years ago

and

It damaged a lot of current structures where a

friend of mine actually lives in outside of Houston,

where they had to have the 1st 3 ft

of the entire house gutted and refinished and redone,

new flooring, new furniture, new everything.

So it's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of them,

you could say natural disasters are a lot of extreme weather cases

that could keep producing this amount of work for us in the,

you know, in texas where you know, let's say in pennsylvania where we live now,

it's not a lot of growth unless you're

in a major city like philadelphia or Pittsburgh

where these cities only expand so much because of how it is,

but down in texas you can expand and keep expanding,

there's a lot of flat ground to go on in these big cities that are rising,

you know

San Antonio is another big one coming up and coming that is expanding.

That could reach borders of surrounding cities and become one giant metropolis

of construction for us with the extreme weather conditions could halt that.

You know, it could say it takes 10 years

to take 20 because a lot of interesting issues from the extreme weather,

you can never anticipate what's going to come and how to plan around it.

You can't plan around

a tornado or a storm.

You can only try to adhere to it as much as you can so you don't get

set back on the job sites and versus how to move forward and said job sites.

So that's a lot about texas and come back to it.

But I think it's Jack's turn to talk about New Jersey and everything and

things he has seen and could be seeing in his position with multi

so

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