I've just been watching the BBC lunchtime news and seen the impact the current storm and flooding is having on southern UK.
Quite distressingly another 'explosive' (the BBC's terminology) low pressure is currently building out in the Atlantic and Sunday/Monday is forecast to see more severe weather.
I was speaking on the telephone to one LJN member earlier and was told that many roads were closed or only passable with care. And even though there is storm clearance to be undertaken it's not possible to get near the sites.
I know the bad weather isn't confined to the south but it is being hardest hit at present: what's the weather like where you are and how has it, or how is it, affecting your business?
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Living near sandbanks in Poole Dorset it's not been good, but you can only do your best just need to get on with it
You're almost in the eye of the storm there Chris.
Are you managing to get in full days? Is there much storm damage to deal with?
chris said:
mainly urban around here. we don't go back till Monday with a full pre-planned workload, but I have already been out doing quotes for fencing work and im swamped already. we've basically had 4 bad winter storms down here in the space of two weeks, with most suppliers shut and most landscapers on Christmas shutdown, so I think it may be a bit of a nightmare with getting hold of materials. I have found it quite interesting how peoples attitudes have changed over Christmas though. Normally after a bad storm people want their fences done t the drop of a hat, but they are all happy to wait as there is nothing they can do. Apart from one customer who phoned me up in the evening two days before Christmas at 9pm to tell me her fence was blowing down and wanted me to come out and repair it then!.......I didn't go!
hope the rest of you in worst hit areas are managing with the bad floods etc
At the moment i dare not start our next landscape project as i think with the levels of ground water round here if i dig out a drive i think we will create a pond so i will wait a bit for things to calm down and let the water table drop, at the moment if you dig down 8" it starts filling up from the bottom of the hole, so even some fencing repairs will have to wait for the ground to firm up first otherwise the posts will rotate in the next winds.
Still there is plenty of jobs to do off the ground so we will continue with the treework assuming we dont get blown out of them.
Some days its just better to get in the shed and do some maintenance and servicing of others kit.
We still have 3FT guys including myself right through this winter. Last year we were on 1.5/2 with virtually no trees or fences or gritting.
If the storms calm, I'm then hoping the ice comes so we can clear all out grit/salt out.
3FT guys? are they midgets?
Thermo said:
im still laughing!:)