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enterprise

Active member
Jul 12, 2010
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Undoubtedly I'm a grumpy git but their gritting the roads where I live tonight with the forecast due to get just below freezing!! Call me a cynic but could they resist and save the stock piles until it's actually needed in the winter? We all know that come snow they will have run out and the whole bloody country will have come to a standstill. Rant over.
 






Norman Potting

Norman Potting

Well-known member
Nov 5, 2006
13,966
Sussex, Sussex not by the sea and actually nearer
enterprise said:
Undoubtedly I'm a grumpy git but their gritting the roads where I live tonight with the forecast due to get just below freezing!! Call me a cynic but could they resist and save the stock piles until it's actually needed in the winter? We all know that come snow they will have run out and the whole bloody country will have come to a standstill. Rant over.
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..But if they don't and someone skids on it that will be wrong as well. Sort of lose/lose situation.
 












Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
70,139
Fair play to the council round these parts. Our local chemist is on a steeply sloping road. The council's deposited a couple of giant sacks of sand right outside the front door. They finally seem to have learnt from that year (3 years ago?) when Brighton turned into a giant skating rink one sunday morning and the populace were left entirely to fend for themselves for more than a week while the ice refused to melt and the council refused to do anything about it and the NHS was left to pick up the bill for fractures by the thousand.
 




Lord Bracknell

Lord Bracknell

On fire
Jul 5, 2003
39,499
104 Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair
This is what East Sussex County Council have to say:-

Deciding when to grit

We use the latest weather forecasting technology to decide when we need to grit the roads. This forecast can often be different to the television weather forecast. Gritters go out before frost and ice are formed by freezing temperatures. Where possible, we try to avoid the morning and evening rush hours.

Rain or snow can wash salt away, so we try to grit after rain has passed but before the road surface freezes.

Gritting decisions are made at least once a day, sometimes more in colder weather.

You can see gritting decisions by following our esccroads Twitter feed.


http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/roads/maintenance/saltingandgritting/default.htm
 








Lord Bracknell

Lord Bracknell

On fire
Jul 5, 2003
39,499
104 Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair


Notters

Notters

Well-known member
Oct 20, 2003
24,869
Guiseley
Just driven up Ditchling road and there's so much grit you can barely see the asphalt. Surprised there's any left for anywhere else.
 






seagullsovergrimsby

seagullsovergrimsby

#cpfctinpotclub
Aug 21, 2005
43,690
Crap Town
Lord Bracknell said:
... and they've all got names.

"Usain Salt" and "Gritty Gritty Bang Bang" are my favourites. But then I'm not a "Gritney Spears" fan.
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I guess "Gary Gritter" is locked away somewhere :lol:
 


Kumquat

Kumquat

New member
Mar 2, 2009
4,459
My girlfriend always gets nervous when the ice comes along and I do my usual "it's about time someone got the council gritter out." Insists on staying up and watching TV rather than going to bed.
 












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