Texas, Day 1: Katy Rice Dryers
This building is a rice dryer facility. It was used to fast dry vast amounts of rice by heating an aeration.
So hot that the sun hums.
After I finished this shoot I met a guy in the neighborhood nearby.
He told me that a friend of his died in this rice dryer. A flood of rice buried and suffocated him.
Commandoed my way in bush to bush.
This building is on an active industrial facility. Construction workers in forklifts and pickups drive around this building nonstop.
Didn't I just tell you about the workers? Get your face out the window!
Conveyors and silo feeds.
Mystery levers with string that went into holes in the ceiling. There was a set of these beneath every silo.
Beeeeezunk!
Freight elevator to transport tools up this shaft.
This ladder was a big wiggly ricket, lags coming out of the cement. Hornets flying around inside the shaft.
I climbed 3/4 of the way up before I realized that I still had a lot of living to do.
Door on the base of a silo.
Flip out doors on the bottom of the rice silo
Tomorrow I'll be heading to the Gulf coast where there will undoubtedly be a breeze.