I am glad I live and work in the area that I do, snow may be forecast for the whole country, but we never seem to get any of it
Daft isn' it? The last thing I really want is bitterly cold weather and thick snow that will stop me working, but I do :
Ok, I only want it for a couple of days, but I still want to see it, I love driving in snow, yeah I know, even dafter, all stems from a misspent youth I guess.
I lived in an area known as the Forest of Dean (only live just outside that area now) and if I woke up and looked out the window at 2am in the morning and saw 6 inches of the white stuff, me & me mates would be out in my Escort drifting along on snow covered roads where my tracks where the first to make their mark.
You have a little control in thick scrunchie snow, unlike ice where you have none at all.
I spent a fair bit of time racing and rallying, and still used the road as a racetrack.
There was (and still is) a couple of miles of twisty road from a little village called Littledean, down to a junction called Elton corner. (Put that in just in case anyone from the area is reading this)
I had an Austin Healey frog eye sprite, for those that don't know, its an old 1950's sports car. It had been beefed up to a fair degree, by todays standards it would be pretty tame, but it held the road like glue.
Well in the dry my speed along this stretch of road wouldn't drop BELOW 80mph, this was usually at something like 3 in the morning, when it was dark you could see which corners you could take a full racing line on because of car lights (or rather the lack of them) coming in the other direction.
In the wet I had got it up to 70mph as a minimum speed.
I look back and I cannot believe how I managed to survive.
Like Roy, I have been out to work in thick snow, brushing the stuff off the windows so I could clean them.
Thick snow falling, climbing ladders....raving mad
I can't believe how customers allowed us to clean their windows. Not that snow makes a lot of difference, it doesn't generally land on the glass.
There was a time when every winter the water would be freezing as we used our applicators, where the ssuds were freezing on the handles of the squeegee and applicator, and on the bucket on belts.
When it was that cold we would use rag mop chamois, clean with chamois, polish with scrim, but really quick so the damp edge didn't have time to freeze!!
So far this winter it hasn't been cold enough to prevent me using my WFP, there are only a couple of weeks left of the winter before the likelihood of weather that severe will be past, so I'm hoping the forcast is wrong for the coming week......................but I'm hoping they're right too
Ian
