pipeline welding 2025-09-15T22:56:37Z
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The rain slammed against my hard hat like ball bearings as I stared at the mudslide swallowing our access road. Somewhere beneath that chocolate-brown river flowed twelve hours of welding documentation - handwritten pressure logs, temperature readings, and fusion timestamps for Section 7B. My project manager's voice crackled through the radio: "If we lose those specs before hydrotest, this entire pipeline segment gets scrapped." I tasted copper-flavored panic as thunder rattled my molars. That's