Return of the Cold weather

reilig

they guys in the weather forum recon its coming back next week:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056114925

whelan1

thats all we need:mad:

reilig

To make the bad weather worse, i was on my way to work this morning and a guy in a council lorry was on the dual carriageway in mullingar with a snow plough - instead of ploughing it into the grass verge, he was ploughing it into the other lane. This is the second time in less than 12 months that i saw this on the mullingar bypass - I wonder was it the same driver???? Super intelligence!!!!

whelan1

we live beside a village , there are 5 roads in to it , each has a hill , on tuesday the council sent out a snow plough , but he wouldnt lower the plough as it might damage the road:eek:

blue5000

Council finally spread salt on our road yesterday, 12 hrs approx before it thawed, thanks lads:D

Upstream

reilig wrote: »

To make the bad weather worse, i was on my way to work this morning and a guy in a council lorry was on the dual carriageway in mullingar with a snow plough - instead of ploughing it into the grass verge, he was ploughing it into the other lane. This is the second time in less than 12 months that i saw this on the mullingar bypass - I wonder was it the same driver???? Super intelligence!!!!

A friend saw the gritter lorry out doing the roads, shortly followed by a snowplough:eek:
Am I wrong or would it not make sense to fit the plough on the gritter lorry

Muckit

reilig wrote: »

To make the bad weather worse, i was on my way to work this morning and a guy in a council lorry was on the dual carriageway in mullingar with a snow plough - instead of ploughing it into the grass verge, he was ploughing it into the other lane. This is the second time in less than 12 months that i saw this on the mullingar bypass - I wonder was it the same driver???? Super intelligence!!!!

Was down over in Mullingar on Wednesday. Roads are definitely worse over there! I thought the big mound of snow in the middle of the road was to stop cars crossing over into oncoming traffic if got a skid. Never seen it done before though!:rolleyes:

reilig

Muckit wrote: »

Was down over in Mullingar on Wednesday. Roads are definitely worse over there! I thought the big mound of snow in the middle of the road was to stop cars crossing over into oncoming traffic if got a skid. Never seen it done before though!:rolleyes:

This morning they ploughed that mound of snow in the middle right into the middle of the slow lane on the dual carriageway. God help us, a little bit of common sense would have this country out of the mess its in. They were probably trying to make a bit more work for themselves. The thaw means less overtime for them.

djmc

reilig wrote: »

This morning they ploughed that mound of snow in the middle right into the middle of the slow lane on the dual carriageway. God help us, a little bit of common sense would have this country out of the mess its in. They were probably trying to make a bit more work for themselves. The thaw means less overtime for them.

I Would say looking for overtime alright
I saw them on night in late november spraying salt on the main street of the town the road was dry and it wasnt even freezing that night.
3 weeks later they are mixing it with sand because they are nearly out of it

Alibear

I think we're all completely fed up with this weather at this stage

reilig

County Councils have put a notice on their website this morning to say that they are restricted to spreading 10 ton of grit on their roads per night. That's one lorry load. They say it has been imposed on them by the NRA because of a shortage of grit. 10 ton will cover between 15 and 20km of road. Last year we had a much longer cold spell and even though there was a shortage of grit, they still managed to get the roads cleared. A month ago they said that they had learned their lesson from last year and that grit was in good supply - now that we've had 2 weeks of cold weather, they're saying they're out of it. There's something wrong somewhere methinks.

The NPR N4 from dublin to sligo was not gritted this morning or yesterday by Westmeath CoCo, Longford CoCo or Leitrim CoCo and was the most dangerous that I have ever seen in 15 years driving. Where the hell are they spreading the grit if they're not putting it on the National Primary Routes?????

Dusty87

What county council was that reilig??

5live

Just glad to be in tropical Kerry boys and girls:D. Very little problems with roads round here. Just keeping water flowing was our biggest hardship. I went to Limerick 3 times during the worst week and the roads were grand compared with the east of the country. Must top up my factor 50 now:D

Bitten & Hisses

reilig wrote: »

County Councils have put a notice on their website this morning to say that they are restricted to spreading 10 ton of grit on their roads per night. That's one lorry load. They say it has been imposed on them by the NRA because of a shortage of grit. 10 ton will cover between 15 and 20km of road. Last year we had a much longer cold spell and even though there was a shortage of grit, they still managed to get the roads cleared. A month ago they said that they had learned their lesson from last year and that grit was in good supply - now that we've had 2 weeks of cold weather, they're saying they're out of it. There's something wrong somewhere methinks.

There is indeed something wrong somewhere. I have it on very good authority that the NRA have been telling porkies. They were saying that there was enough salt in the country when there most definitely was not. Salt stocks in Europe are at very low levels.

red menace

reilig wrote: »

County Councils have put a notice on their website this morning to say that they are restricted to spreading 10 ton of grit on their roads per night. That's one lorry load. They say it has been imposed on them by the NRA because of a shortage of grit. 10 ton will cover between 15 and 20km of road. Last year we had a much longer cold spell and even though there was a shortage of grit, they still managed to get the roads cleared. A month ago they said that they had learned their lesson from last year and that grit was in good supply - now that we've had 2 weeks of cold weather, they're saying they're out of it. There's something wrong somewhere methinks.

The NPR N4 from dublin to sligo was not gritted this morning or yesterday by Westmeath CoCo, Longford CoCo or Leitrim CoCo and was the most dangerous that I have ever seen in 15 years driving. Where the hell are they spreading the grit if they're not putting it on the National Primary Routes?????

Last years cold didn't kick in til much later in the year maybe they are holding tight for the moment to get through the xmas.
That is a miniscule ammount though

On a side note, had the pleasure of seeing some heavy duty snow removal outside my house in Canada last night.

5 Motor graders moved all the snow into one massive windrow in the outside of 4 lanes .
Next a tractor with a snow blower blew the snow into 40 foot trucks
Big tractor, was hard to see what it was looked like a Massey but had no decals
He was under pressure, wasnt doing much more than 4-5 KM/H filling a 40 footer in about 100 yards I would say
Impressive to see,
All with live traffic and no lane closures

reilig

Dusty87 wrote: »

What county council was that reilig??

Westmeath, Longford and leitrim County Councils have all issued a notice that all county councils in the country are limited by the NRA to spreading 10 ton per night.

I was in galway yesterday evening. Passing a council yard and 3 John Deere's with large bulk fertilizer spreaders were being loaded. They went on to grit many of the secondary roads in East Galway before dark. On my way home, there were several other galway county council gritters on the primary routes and the N6 was well coated.
Obviously Galway CoCo had no restriction placed on them.

red_diesel

Not looking as bad now thank God
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056118102
Personally I hate snow. It would be a disaster round xmas. People would be stranded in their houses, some could be stranded in airports etc.

reilig

red_diesel wrote: »

Not looking as bad now thank God
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056118102
Personally I hate snow. It would be a disaster round xmas. People would be stranded in their houses, some could be stranded in airports etc.

Yea, I just checked it out on www.met.ie and it looks like the threat of major heavy snow is gone for thursday/friday and saturday but there still could be a small bit. This morning was a lovely morning - it was like a spring morning, not too cold and a nice bit of sun.

thetiredfarmer

My family and I are are heading to Galway for the weekend,are we cracked to travel with current weather predictions?We already cancelled two weeks ago.!