Montana

After getting denied entry for having all of the right forms but not walking in confident enough in what I needed to do to get across, and for being honest, I got in on round two. I swear, they won’t let someone in to the country to do something legal and that will be beneficial for them, but they’ll…. Argh!!! Frustrations aplenty, and pretty much these were just the start of what was to come. Let’s just say after holding onto a 50 lb metal pole in 12 feet of water travelling at up to 15 ft/s I have some pretty intensely strong forearms.
I personally have never heard of removing turbines from a penstock and then opening the gates wide open and letting the water rip roar through the structure. As one of the experts there I felt a little over my head when they were asking me questions like “that seal we just blew, is that bad?” I think I knew the answer, but not from my degree, more intuition, that with the dam vibrating et al…