construction security 2025-09-20T12:11:08Z

Rain lashed against the site office window, the kind of downpour that turns dirt into rivers and steel into ghosts. My knuckles were white around the satellite phone, the contractor's voice crackling through static: "Two excavators gone, boss. Like they evaporated." That metallic taste of panic flooded my mouth—$750,000 vanishing into a tropical storm. We used clipboards and walkie-talkies then, relics in a world where equipment could dissolve between shift changes. My foreman found me staring a