ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area Snow

Joe, I love your Mama. I could swear I have seen fire freeze at my old house. Or at least it was so cold it didn't put off any heat.

Roger

Crusty New Englander? Not me. I do love winter and especially snow! The more the better. As far as working outside goes, call me in July!

Despite the weather in England being consistently changeable and frequently gray and wet, we seldom get the real extremes that most parts of the U.S. experience.

Snow seems to be getting rarer here though. The most snowy winter I remember was 77/78. It's somewhat before my time, but people of my parents' generation all recall the winter of '47, and to a slightly lesser degree that of '62/63. I've seen the old newsreel footage and we certainly don't have anything to compare with it these days.

As for the cold, it's rare for it to drop more than a few degrees below freezing, maybe down to the low 20's on a very cold mid-winter night. I'll always remember arriving in Nebraska in January, and feeling just what 5 degrees feels like!

That'll teach me to save a couple of bucks by walking 3 blocks to pick up a car!

Bring it on.

The work van weighs about half the tonnage of an abrams tank when fully loaded. Plows right through the snow piles.

Love it.

Just a word of caution when there is snow on a worksite. You can't see hidden dangers under the snow. I was inspecting a job this week when I was walking around the construction site, I must have hit either a piece of plywood or plastic sheeting covering goods on the site. I went down on my butt, nothing hurt, but I laughed about it. Good thing there wasn't any open holes or trenches that I could have fallen into. Just be careful out there.

Harold

Thanks to about 8" of snow here in MD I had to wait an extra day for the moving van to show up. The radio said that this was the most snow in the last 3 years, and more than the last 2 years combined. Glad I had a radio in the truck, no TV, no food.

One of the new neighbors brought over his snowblower after I was halfway through shovelling the driveway the first time.

Ah, Monday and back to work.

bbrrrrr.....

[This message has been edited by sparky (edited 12-09-2002).]