Monday, December 28, 2009

Snow clearing this morning...

When the snow pushed aside by the graders that are used as snowplows becomes huge heaps or berms at the side of the road it becomes time for the road crews to clear the snow.

This involves grading/ploughing the sides of the road, so a huge berm divides the roadway.


Then the snowmachine a huge beast gobbles up the snow




and spits it out into a convoy of huge trucks that follow it in an every moving relay. They drive alongside and are filled



and the next truck takes over whilst the full truck rushes off to the snow dump to tip out it's load and then to rush back to join the convoy again and so it goes on... the noise of thundering trucks lets you know when they are nearby!

4 comments:

  1. Wow. That's serious snow removal! I hope you are enjoying a warm and happy holiday week!

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  2. It's amazing isn't it Robin hope your holidays were fun


    My email has been directing everyones comments to the spam folder....(gulp) just found out today.. so I'm Sorry for the delay in posting and I hope none were eaten before I noticed!

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  3. I can't imagine that scenario here in the UK. We could not get that organised. I do, though, have an image of a huge, huge mound of snow somewhere that does not fully melt until well into summer :-)

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  4. We do have huge piles of snow that last long into the Summer they just call them snow dumps...think large fenced areas hidden about town that get filled with snow that slowly melts over the summer ..actually it gets rather mucky looking so you can see why they hide them!

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from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)