Guided to help those in need, at a bottling plant!

One doesn't often notice that during the kosher auditing we do,  we may be directly involved in world events. 

I just returned from a major bottling plant, providing pure spring water.

When I wondered out loud to the QA manager why the 5 gallon line was down, he matter-of-factly answered that the plant simply didn't have enough workers.  Where are they, I asked-- and he just as matter-of-factly told me that they have been put all on the 1.5 liter line, running around the clock to provide clean, pure water for the stricken Japanese market.

Radiation from the nuclear crisis and damage from the massive earthquake has polluted local water supplies, and this plant is filling the need. 

In the small way we partner with this company, we are helping them,  through our certification, create a quality production facility which can meet world-shaking needs. 

I'm glad I get to share my expertise with companies such as these.

I dodged a mega-snowstorm.

Sheesh.

Thursday

Snow in the morning...then rain and snow in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 10 to 16 inches at lower elevations and 11 to 17 inches above 4000 feet.

There is no rest for the weary in the West as storms will keep rolling ashore into the weekend with heavy rain and heavy mountain snow . . . The storms will continue to dump additional feet and yards of snow over the Sierra Nevada with snow levels fluctuating between 3,000 and 5,000 feet. -- Quotations from Accuweather and NOAA.

How could I know?
I planned to be tommorrow, Thursday, in Mt. Shasta, at 7,000 feet.
For some reason, I chose to go there yesterday, and all I got in Ashland, OR today, only 90 miles away from Mt. Shasta, are "sun breaks", which translated for you non-Westerners (or shall I say, non-Oregonians) means moments of sun punctuated by long periods of dreary, rainy stuff.

But, that's what traveling the route of an RFR is all about-- trying to make good decisions, and allowing the Almighty to guide me for His service.  It's all a metaphor.

I didn't go to Mt. Shasta and I'm not caught in the storm of the winter.  I did my inspection yesterday, and today-- in between the sunbreaks, I did a few more.  The plants were appreciative that I was there.  So was I.  But for many, many other reasons.