The long rain

[lutonlagerlout]

the rain is back with a vengeance
since November it has been a constant battle
talked to a mate today who is a site manager and he reckons half the subbies on his job are going bust
they need to finish units to get paid but sites are either quagmires or under water
we have a massive backlog,that is going to cause us major headaches when it clears up a bit
the lads have done 5 days out of 12 but all the inside jobs are done and you cant lay flags in the torrential rain we are having

the digger driver cant dig because there is nowhere for it to go
the pits are shut because they are too muddy for the grab lorries to get in and out

whats it like in your area?
LLL

[mickg]

>>>>whats it like in your area?
WET and cold - but living in the north west we are used to it

[GB_Groundworks]

to buck a trend we are cracking on

nice and warm and dry in the big factories, day passes wihtout having to go outside except a few trips to the big 20 yard skip outside

want us to re clad the entire factory though so that going to be a fun one on days like today, driving home on the m1 almost took off closed to high side vehicles

[rab1]

The weather is normal here, never good but as expected (snow yesterday)

[Tony McC]

At times like this, I'm grateful that most of my work is done at a desk in a spare bedroom. At least I can keep earning no matter what the weather gods chuck at us, but it means I can't get out on the bike.

Fingers crossed for Sunday - if it does stay dry and sunny, I might risk a ride out to Rivvy Barn, blow the cobwebs and mice nests out of me exhaut pipes!

[Dave_L]

Somerset is open for business! They've got the big Dutch pumps running tonight so they might clear it in 4 weeks :rock:

[msh paving]

the Dutch have
arrived

found this on a heavy haulage forum MSH

[lutonlagerlout]

wasnt is strange that after somerset had been under water for 4 weeks ,that as soon as water threatened windsor "money is no object"
why could that be?

the dutch have earmarked 100billion euros towards flood defence and water management in the next 90 years
that for a country with around 300 miles of coast

great britain has a longer coastline than india at around 10,000 miles (debatable)
But we only spend around 500 million a year defending it

bizarrely no floods in holland ?

LLL

[Stuarty]

Holland manage their watercourses, we dont. Its as simple as that im afraid.

Farmers can be prosecuted for clearing ditches and watercourses because their destroying habitats, so the wildlife can "flourish". Now we cant shift the water, we are buggered and under water. So next year anything flour based will be up in price as the land thats waterlogged is currently unproductive and wont be for quite some time as all the NPK will have been washed out.

By not dredging and maintaing watercourses to maximum efficiency this is the result. We are more important than voles, newts etc but we are now paying the price for giving them a nice home.

Wildlife will relocate, we cant move our houses, farms and fields.

[cookiewales]

looks like will have to bale out early from morfa nefyn try and beat the snow on the way home should have put my winter tyres on last week :p

[lutonlagerlout]

another 8 hour job on the way today cookie
best of luck getting home
LLL

[KLS]

looks like will have to bale out early from morfa nefyn try and beat the snow on the way home should have put my winter tyres on last week :p

Did you manage to get to the pub on the beach on the golf course?

[Dave_L]

Large scale pumping has now commenced at Bridgwater, quite impressive

[rab1]

Impressive bits of kit, how many liters per min can they handle?. Sod beginning the poor barsterwed that has to prime them lol

[Dave_L]

I think the priming is something to do with those large grey boxes above the intake, probably quite a simple operation to prime them up in reality.

I can't find a reference to their pumping capacity but I seem to recall it is 7000m3/hr - I think there is 65M tonnes of water on the levels or something.....