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Canada - Fire-Hall In Winter
Winter 2009 - a rural Volunteer Fire Department. The 3 bays hold the standard complement of a Pumper and a Tanker, plus a one-ton 4x4 Forestry Truck for brush-fires and a Utility Van(formerly an Ambulance).
The roof is spec'd to take a heavy snow-load; likewise the building is heavily insulated as temperatures can go to -30C(-22F) in a normal winter; electric Central Heating and double-glazing(storm windows).
The yard (fore-court) is big and ample - plenty of room, for the snow-plow to push the snow. It was formerly farm-land; and donated to the Fire Dept, by a retired farmer.
Being rural, and no Fire Hydrants; there is a Water Reservoir - it is buried under-ground the standard 4 feet(1.3 metres), to get below the frost-line.
I was wondering whether to post this one; as right now, many of you in Britain and Europe are also coping, with the snow and cold of an extreme winter; and are getting to see the same winter scenery, around your own Fire Stations !
Winter 2009 - a rural Volunteer Fire Department. The 3 bays hold the standard complement of a Pumper and a Tanker, plus a one-ton 4x4 Forestry Truck for brush-fires and a Utility Van(formerly an Ambulance).
The roof is spec'd to take a heavy snow-load; likewise the building is heavily insulated as temperatures can go to -30C(-22F) in a normal winter; electric Central Heating and double-glazing(storm windows).
The yard (fore-court) is big and ample - plenty of room, for the snow-plow to push the snow. It was formerly farm-land; and donated to the Fire Dept, by a retired farmer.
Being rural, and no Fire Hydrants; there is a Water Reservoir - it is buried under-ground the standard 4 feet(1.3 metres), to get below the frost-line.
I was wondering whether to post this one; as right now, many of you in Britain and Europe are also coping, with the snow and cold of an extreme winter; and are getting to see the same winter scenery, around your own Fire Stations !
Brrrr, I dread to think how Britain would cope with a proper covering of snow such as this. We fall to pieces and grind to a halt with a couple of inches! But then again, it's not the country's fault; it's the idiots that inhabit it. For instance: if I had a pound for every idiot that I've seen senselessly revving the engine like mad and frenziedly spinning the wheels in first gear and hoping to make headway, I'd be about 26 quid better off! Today it seems that hardly anybody knows how to drive in snow and ice. But we (by 'we', I do of course mean the media) do know how to panic everybody. Boy how we know. And boy how we panic!!!
Great photo, Pat. But I'm interested to know why the snow has not been cleared. If they'd have recieved a call-out, surely they'd be house-bound, assuming of course, that this is the station exit.
Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 15 January 2010.
Great photo, Pat. But I'm interested to know why the snow has not been cleared. If they'd have recieved a call-out, surely they'd be house-bound, assuming of course, that this is the station exit.
Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 15 January 2010.
Yelp B.; had to use "a trick angle" to show all the snow...I was a bit slow in getting this scene.
It was late in the winter - the snow is weathered, and melted away some, after February Thaws.... it is an ample property and the well-cleared and sanded Exit driveway is out of the photo to the right....it is grimey, and would have spoiled the lovely, white, snow effect !
As to coping with snow: not all that much better at it over here - you want to see the Autumn, when the first snows and ice do finally come.
People are still not prepared - Tire Shops are jammed with irate 'last-minute' customers, who have procrastinated in getting their snow -tires mounted.
For Budget reasons, the snow-equipment isn't always out yet(weather systems don't always seem to comply with bureacratic guidelines - amazing) - so we have the slippery-snow roads jammed with spinning summer-tires, minor 'fender-bender' RTC's everywhere; much comment from the Media people who always have to broadcast "live" from out there, with the snow/rain falling on them, as if the viewers have never seen it before & etc.
Emergency Services going flat-out on the same awful conditions; Towing Services just loving the business, although the minor "off-the-road" accidents get left in the ditch for quite awhile, as the major ones get priority; and Insurance Companies do not love all the Claims....
Sound familiar ?
Really, not much different to your side of The Pond; every year, it seems we have to get "re-educated" to another winter, when Old Man Winter finally arrives.....
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 15 January 2010.
It was late in the winter - the snow is weathered, and melted away some, after February Thaws.... it is an ample property and the well-cleared and sanded Exit driveway is out of the photo to the right....it is grimey, and would have spoiled the lovely, white, snow effect !
As to coping with snow: not all that much better at it over here - you want to see the Autumn, when the first snows and ice do finally come.
People are still not prepared - Tire Shops are jammed with irate 'last-minute' customers, who have procrastinated in getting their snow -tires mounted.
For Budget reasons, the snow-equipment isn't always out yet(weather systems don't always seem to comply with bureacratic guidelines - amazing) - so we have the slippery-snow roads jammed with spinning summer-tires, minor 'fender-bender' RTC's everywhere; much comment from the Media people who always have to broadcast "live" from out there, with the snow/rain falling on them, as if the viewers have never seen it before & etc.
Emergency Services going flat-out on the same awful conditions; Towing Services just loving the business, although the minor "off-the-road" accidents get left in the ditch for quite awhile, as the major ones get priority; and Insurance Companies do not love all the Claims....
Sound familiar ?
Really, not much different to your side of The Pond; every year, it seems we have to get "re-educated" to another winter, when Old Man Winter finally arrives.....
Regards, from Canada,
Pat_R-B
Added by Pat Rivers-Bowerman on 15 January 2010.
I was wondering Pat,does your FD, and/or adjacent FDs, have a web-site? If so, I'd like to read it if you would list it.
Also, how do you access your water resevoir? Drafting using the pumper? An installed pump?
Down here in Georgia, USA, we mostly get ice, some snow in the mountains. There's no requirement for snow tires. I have driven on the ice without chains, but don't care for it. I can do it and not wreck though, unlike a lot of Georgians. They go too fast.
Thanks!
Added by David L on 15 January 2010.
Also, how do you access your water resevoir? Drafting using the pumper? An installed pump?
Down here in Georgia, USA, we mostly get ice, some snow in the mountains. There's no requirement for snow tires. I have driven on the ice without chains, but don't care for it. I can do it and not wreck though, unlike a lot of Georgians. They go too fast.
Thanks!
Added by David L on 15 January 2010.
Pat! The same thing with people getting surpriced by the first snowfall, and NOT having changed to winterwheels occurs
every winterseason in my homecountry Sweden.Fender-benders? Eyp, not one, a lots a them every time.
Anders F.Sweden.
Added by Anders Fallström on 20 June 2014.
every winterseason in my homecountry Sweden.Fender-benders? Eyp, not one, a lots a them every time.
Anders F.Sweden.
Added by Anders Fallström on 20 June 2014.
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Yes Pat,we've had it pretty bad here in the UK recently,but you Canadians are used to it and like most European Countries always seem to cope brilliantly with the conditions.Its a pity we can't get our act together and do the same.
Added by Pete Matten on 14 January 2010.