woodbutcherbower
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Devastating UK storm damage
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onocoffee said:
Does the rolling help?
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woodbutcherbower said:
It seems to require that you become prone beside it, moaning piteously for generous ministrations of an appropriate beverage (such as Knappogue Castle Single Malt 16 Year) until such a time as your grief subsides. (There may be relapses...) [big grin]
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Dunno about everyone else on here but that week we were working on a large flat roof 12 metres up.
It had a scaffold round it but we had the roof covered up by plastic sheeting, held down as best we could by slate battens screwed to the plywood.
Some of that sheeting was lifted, it pulled some of the batten screws out and looked like it might fire some timbers down onto the road below.
I spent some time on Friday on that roof trying to make it so it wouldn't kill pedestrians nearby and with the speed of the gusts up there it was no joke.
At one point I was blown flat and decided to get myself down sharpish.
All the sites for the company I'm currently subcontracting to got closed and Selafield workers were asked to work from home if they could.
In my mind the severe weather warnings were absolutely justified and will have saved lives.
Even just suggesting to site agents that the pressure of production is off for a day means they're less likely to pressure other people into doing things they shouldnt.
Where I was working the Met office said the gusts were upto 84 mph, try carrying an 8'×4' sheet of plywood about in that.
Since then I've seen quite a few officewallas who do nothing more dangerous than mince across the floor with a hot cup of coffee in their hand suggest that the warnings were over egged and a few lucky people from unaffected areas show a lack of understanding/empathy.
In some areas, it was genuinely dangerous and sometimes its worth mentioning that in weather warnings to make people think seriously about what exactly they plan on doing during that period.
IMO like.
Oh and watch youself with that coffee, its hot.
It had a scaffold round it but we had the roof covered up by plastic sheeting, held down as best we could by slate battens screwed to the plywood.
Some of that sheeting was lifted, it pulled some of the batten screws out and looked like it might fire some timbers down onto the road below.
I spent some time on Friday on that roof trying to make it so it wouldn't kill pedestrians nearby and with the speed of the gusts up there it was no joke.
At one point I was blown flat and decided to get myself down sharpish.
All the sites for the company I'm currently subcontracting to got closed and Selafield workers were asked to work from home if they could.
In my mind the severe weather warnings were absolutely justified and will have saved lives.
Even just suggesting to site agents that the pressure of production is off for a day means they're less likely to pressure other people into doing things they shouldnt.
Where I was working the Met office said the gusts were upto 84 mph, try carrying an 8'×4' sheet of plywood about in that.
Since then I've seen quite a few officewallas who do nothing more dangerous than mince across the floor with a hot cup of coffee in their hand suggest that the warnings were over egged and a few lucky people from unaffected areas show a lack of understanding/empathy.
In some areas, it was genuinely dangerous and sometimes its worth mentioning that in weather warnings to make people think seriously about what exactly they plan on doing during that period.
IMO like.
Oh and watch youself with that coffee, its hot.
