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&DUROLQH 6WUHHW 3XQ[VXWDZQH\ 3$ :HE 6LWH KWWS ZZZ VWDULURQZRUNV FRP ( PDLO VDOHV#VWDULURQZRUNV FRP )$; To be noticed, give us a call: (850) 547-0102 or e-mail: wwdr@ worldwidedrillingresource.com 12 AUGUST 2019 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® Oil/Water Exploration by Harold White I went out to do a water well site location for a new well not far out of town, less than a mile up the mountain. The old gravel road to the place had been covered with Douglas fir trees that fell during the snow, a wet snow that was like an ice storm but white. You may know what a silver thaw is - rain that freezes when it hits anything and everything - streets, power lines, sidewalks, towns, houses, everything covered with ice. It gets heavy, very heavy, causing electric power to go off, which stops traffic and shuts down the town. The electric company fixes the broken power poles and lines in town first, gets power to hospitals and medical facilities, then works their way out of town to the country people who need medical help, food, and so on. Some trees fell on houses and cut or chopped houses in half. My son Sean was lucky he’d just had some really big oak trees with huge limbs removed from around the house before the snow happened, but a neighbor’s tree fell partially on his house. It landed on the bedroom where he was sleeping. It made a huge noise in the night - scary, huh? That house probably would have been demolished. When I got to the place I was going, the guy was outside. I stopped the car and met him. I mentioned about the trees that had fallen across the road and how it must have taken a long time to cut and remove - at least 30-40 feet from the center of the road, with a lot of pieces still left on both sides of the road. He said yes, it took along time. He had been stranded, unable to get to town for 13 days. There was no electricity and of course trees were down everywhere. Truckloads of trees had already been hauled off before my arrival. The man said his well was out behind the house a ways. A tree had fallen right on it, smashing the pump house which caused the well to cave in. He said he was going to drill north of the well, about 15 feet from the existing well since there was water everyplace on the property. The wire and plumbing were close, so he wanted us to drill there unless I said different. My findings showed his spot to be a place I would not choose because the aquifer his pump was drawing from wasn’t there, so I put the well site on the aquifer that feeds that well. Harold Harold White may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com EXB