frittata and last night a penne and swirly thing with ricotta. Variety is nice but for next week may revert back to the good ol country food and good ol meat and potato.
The roads were busy yesterday with a bulldozer and a large loader clearing the snow from them.
All fine and dandy but looks like they will have to do it all again, Brian Snodden of Here & Now seemed to miss this warning last night.
Now I understand southern folk’s penchant for complaining about road snow clearing and driveways.
Not that most of us have driveways as such, but to get from the road to our homes [and visa versa] we still have to get over the mounds of snow that the “clearing” creates.
Which brings me to the catch twenty two of clearing the roads of snow?
I understand they have to be done while the boats are still running. But while the snow is being removed from the road surface this allows the frost to get into the ground, eventually going deeper and deeper heading down to the water and sewer lines.
We all remember last year’s horror show of broken and frozen lines, especially the people working on repairing them.
Like I said, catch twenty two.
Harking back to Wednesday evenings meeting with Hydro official; here is an interview that Sarah Erickson did this morning.
3 comments:
That's a good point you raise about the loss of insulation when the snow is removed. Is this being taken into consideration?
Suppose it has been considered, but apart from digging up the whole supply line and installing the pipes in some sort of ridged insulated cocoon I’m not sure what can be done.
One could not remove the snow for sure, but then getting freight around town on komatik would impose undue hardships on retailers, construction crews etc.
Until the boats stop running there is not a good argument to be made for ‘not plowing’ the roads.
One thing that should make any repairs easier: This year many of the shut off valves on the main line had man holes installed over them. The reasoning is; if there is a break in the lines then you just climb down the man hole to shut the valve off to isolate effected area. Before the crews had to first dig through many feet of frozen ground to get to the valve.
Mind you that is if all the work was completed correctly. Many of the contractor’s crew were what one would call hope heads, lots of mistakes made during construction, too many to be considered normal.
That's hophead.
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