Capping the 9th Pile - Monsoon Excitement!

unloading the pre-mixed concrete on to wheel-barrows

2nd November, 2011: The concrete delivery truck never arrives on time. The monsoon rains on the other hand, almost always do. So when the truck finally arrived at 4.15pm last Wednesday, the workers exploded into a frenzy, releasing the humid afternoon's accumulated anxieties and tensions as they raced against time to fill the pile-cap with wheel-barrow after wheel-barrow of concrete.

The pile was capped in 30 minutes, just in time before the first drops were felt. Hurrah!!

Quickly! Quickly! Racing to cap the piles before the rains arrived

Storm clouds gathering. Arrive it did. As expected.