I hate the damn snow!

[Gavin John Hyde]

All this snow is driving me mad. Drove from Devizes to Bath friday night. No problem apart from stretch by the huge golf course at Kingsdown.
Yesterday walk into town and back via the park past the cool kids snowboarding and skiing in the park didnt slip once. Get back home go out to the underground carpark to get some bits out the boot and slip.
I now have a sprained wrist. Its better than yesterday and doesnt appear broken.
Downside I have had to cancel a job monday as i know my wrist wont be okay by then.
Reckon i ought to get snowchains and cash in on the emergency call outs next time.
In short i hate snow...
Anybody else fed up with it yet? Causes havoc with the diary.

 

[edexlab]

I was in Ireland last year during the snow and I know we say the UK grinds to a halt

I think we cope fairly well for a country that only has Snow intermittently, not enough to have proper measures in place although this may change as we seem to be getting it more regularly now

Things slow down for a few days and then people adapt and carry on almost as normal...

The Irish had a somewhat different approach

Everything closes down even in places with no snow

When I say everything I mean everything!
Almost sheer panic!

Even petrol stations , Pubs, McDonald's, Chinese and Indian restaurants closed not one shop stayed open where we were

When the snow arrived there were us 12 Brits and about 40 locals turn up for work at a factory with 600 on the day shift until they closed the place down

Drove around in a normal car had to help several locals in Landrovers and 4x4's get up hills that we got up no problem!

Had 3 days cooped up in a B&B bored stiff

Watching the News a Council rep declared that as they now had 25mm of snow on the ground they'd deemed it too dangerous to send out snowploughs and gritters?????

 

[edexlab]

I was in Ireland last year during the snow and I know we say the UK grinds to a halt

I think we cope fairly well for a country that only has Snow intermittently, not enough to have proper measures in place although this may change as we seem to be getting it more regularly now

Things slow down for a few days and then people adapt and carry on almost as normal...

The Irish had a somewhat different approach

Everything closes down even in places with no snow

When I say everything I mean everything!
Almost sheer panic!

Even petrol stations , Pubs, McDonald's, Chinese and Indian restaurants closed not one shop stayed open where we were

When the snow arrived there were us 12 Brits and about 40 locals turn up for work at a factory with 600 on the day shift until they closed the place down

Drove around in a normal car had to help several locals in Landrovers and 4x4's get up hills that we got up no problem!

Had 3 days cooped up in a B&B bored stiff

Watching the News a Council rep declared that as they now had 25mm of snow on the ground they'd deemed it too dangerous to send out snowploughs and gritters?????

 

[NDG Elecs]

I love the snow too. I was cursing it this morning though as had a nice £330 double EICR to do at the same property, and I couldn't get the van off my drive for 10 mins or so. Eventually it managed to grip and away I went. I was 20 mins late for a customer yesterday too, due to traffic jam, but I quite enjoyed being 'forced' to go slow after the hectic week I've had.

 

[Squid]

Back in 78/79 in Poland the girlfriends family had to drop her out of the upstairs window in to the snow so she could get to the stores for a shovel to dig through to the front door so they could get out, I think 6ft of snow fell overnight.

 

[Midwest]

I do despair at the UK, when we get a bit of snow (sounds like Irelands worse).

People at work ringing in saying they could not get in. Yet in the afternoon, everyone's going to the supermarket etc, to buy all the bread & milk they can find. Couldn't turn up for work then, could they.

Schools are closed, 'cos some of the teachers couldn't get in, so then parents are 'forced' to take the day off, to look after their charges.

I had to go into work yesterday, to grit the roads & paths. Well don't flippin go out if you can't stand up properly.

Just waiting for another callout, the paths are slippy again.

 

[Starjack]

Winter = no travel
Rain = floods too much water to handle
Heat = hosepipe ban
The country can't handle anything that nature throws at it.

 

[telectrix]

Winter = no travel
Rain = floods too much water to handle
Heat = hosepipe ban
The country can't handle anything that nature throws at it.

now that i've given you an agree, giizza job. i'm over 50 though, just turned 72. got my zimmer frame in back of van along with all my analogue testers. .

 

[Starjack]

now that i've given you an agree, giizza job. i'm over 50 though, just turned 72. got my zimmer frame in back of van along with all my analogue testers. .

Possibly, if you passed what I expect from my lads.
At the risk of getting taken in the car park AGAIN for a kicking, I never actually said I wouldn't employ a 50 year old electrician I just wouldn't set on a 50 year old apprentice . Workers should be an investment for the future of the company, at 50 that future can be very limited.
We work on very large projects and the work is hard going, some of my younger guys struggle so it's only natural an older guy is going to feel it more.

 

[buzzlightyear]

Possibly, if you passed what I expect from my lads.
At the risk of getting taken in the car park AGAIN for a kicking, I never actually said I wouldn't employ a 50 year old electrician I just wouldn't set on a 50 year old apprentice . Workers should be an investment for the future of the company, at 50 that future can be very limited.
We work on very large projects and the work is hard going, some of my younger guys struggle so it's only natural an older guy is going to feel it more.

not again .

 

[Starjack]

not again .

I have replied in a civil manner to another member which wasn't you so take your red flag and wave it at someone else.

 

[Deleted member 105166]

We work on very large projects and the work is hard going, some of my younger guys struggle so it's only natural an older guy is going to feel it more.

Really? I'm sure I speak for most in saying the larger projects are normally physically less demanding than the smaller jobs. Because with a large, complex job, there will be more boys & girls on the job, typically more advance planning and structure to the job, more budget, better access equipment, etc etc... as opposed to the smaller jobs where it's often just one or two sparks doing whatever they need to do, to get the job done.

 

[buzzlightyear]

the trouble when the snows hit uk ,every thing ground to a holt .
some country's like eastern country's just get on with it .
places like Norway ,Sweden,are ready for it .

 

[Starjack]

Really? I'm sure I speak for most in saying the larger projects are normally physically less demanding than the smaller jobs. Because with a large, complex job, there will be more boys & girls on the job, typically more advance planning and structure to the job, more budget, better access equipment, etc etc... as opposed to the smaller jobs where it's often just one or two sparks doing whatever they need to do, to get the job done.

Yes and no , 2 house bashers are not going to be installing 240mm 4 core swa cables in parallel on ladder tray 40 ft in the air or installing 1600amp lv custom built panels in switch rooms or jointing large cables in a quarry up to there arse in mud.
Another way to look at it is one guy working on a little install is never going to get any great demand where as a client with a large and very expensive project expects miracles at times.

 

[Deleted member 105166]

Yes and no , 2 house bashers are not going to be installing 240mm 4 core swa cables in parallel on ladder tray 40 ft in the air

I'd choose doing that with a nice new scissor lift, powered feeder and a couple of other sparks on a construction site over crawling on my stomach through dirty old insulation in an unlit, cramped attic, not knowing if I'm going to disturb a wasps nest, any day of the week.

jointing large cables in a quarry up to there arse in mud.

I'd be interested to see your RAMS for that one. BTW it's "their arse" (possessive pronoun). Familiarise yourself with"there, their and they're".

 

[Pete999]

the trouble when the snows hit uk ,every thing ground to a holt .
some country's like eastern country's just get on with it .
places like Norway ,Sweden,are ready for it .

Loved the snow when we lived in Moscow, great fun, mind you as Buzz said they are geared up for it, Son learned to skate I learnt to drive properly in the icy conditions, although her indoors may give me a disagree on that score. Mind snow in Cyprus was a bit strange as well you don't normally link Cyprus with snow, unless of course you're based up in Troodos, feet no inches as well.