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Snow affecting your business?
So has your business been affected by the bad snow?
we have it bad here, the snow is very deep. could be a difficult week ahead…
we have several lorries in various sizes to be wrapped, all will be inside, but they are 30 minutes drive away so looks like that might not happen now. well at least for a week… 🙄 -
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The snow has been a real problem, no chance of outdoor work and the roads were hell today. Lots of other businesses had problems with staff coming in and didn’t open or closed early.
Not helpful at all
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Killing me here – on two fronts.
Firstly my suppliers can’t deliver the required goods due to snowfall.
Secondly, the general disruption caused to planned fitting schedules.
I checked with online weather Monday – said:
SNOW, CLOUDY, CLEAR, CLEAR, CLEAR…so far
SNOW, SNOW, SNOW…so unless by some miracle it all melts tomorrow I’ve just lost a weeks worth of fitting shop fascias and the money that was scheduled to bring in on completion (1/2 up front anyway).Arrrrgghhh – just started snowing as I type.
Had 5" lying yesterday…got another 4" last night.
Dundee has ONE snow plow operational it would seem…and they are not laying down grit/salt for fear of needing it later should they run out.
All of the roads are a mess and the only clear paths are made by cars & vans (buses are off too).By comparison – had to go up to Aberdeen yesterday…roads were OK..one lane and you hit Aberdeen council limits – wow…clear…completely clear.
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I saw snow once, about 20 years ago. Horrible cold, wet stuff……
Sorry…
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quote DavidRogers:By comparison – had to go up to Aberdeen yesterday…roads were OK..one lane and you hit Aberdeen council limits – wow…clear…completely clear.Ha you should of came abit further north in to the shire. we have a about 3 foot lying! and had another 5in dumped on us this morning.
Martin
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I’ve stopped looking out of the window, everytime I do there seems to be more of it lol.
I am on the east coast and we don’t get it anywhere near as bad as they do further inland so I dread to think how people are managing over Roberts way.
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quote Quentin Tomkies:I saw snow once, about 20 years ago. Horrible cold, wet stuff……:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
we have easy two feet in many places…
allot of internal work being done, which is good as it lets us catch up. but the lack of materials being delivered is now getting on our nerves. cant blame anyone but mother nature though. must be the bloody global warming again eh? 😉 :lol1: -
I put the dog in the garden this morning and she disappeared, good job her heads mainly black or I would never have found her :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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quote Robert Lambie:So has your business been affected by the bad snow?yes and we only had our first snow yesterday suddenly everything comes to a halt..my kids love and I hate it and only just turned December 🙁
I know you have had it bad up there…roll on spring 😎 😎
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Barely a couple of inches on the ground and bingo! no deliveries…!
Having said that, the problem here is not the snow (or lack of it), but the ice on the secondary roads, I managed to pop a tyre off the rim today by going sideways with a big 4×4. Doh!
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Martin…
Please don’t talk about the wife like that…
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Way over 2ft deep here and still snowing heavy………most business is paralysed. Getting delivery’s is impossible
john
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Matty, why would you think I was talking about your wife, I don’t even know her……… 🙄
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quote Martin:Matty, why would you think I was talking about your wife, I don’t even know her……… 🙄
😀 😀
Very good Martin…
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Yes v good Martin – you dont do jokes normally 😀
Snow here on the South Eastern Riviera is building nicely to bring out all the idiots that cant drive and should stay at home (hot) thats not me btw
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what gets me is we personally pay rent & rates to the local council for our units. but i have yet to see a single snow plough on our roads or in our industrial estate. not even our towns main roads are clear and no gritters or ploughs…
in all the time this snow has been here ive only seen 2 snow ploughs and that was last night on the motorway at 11pm.makes you wonder where all the community/rates charges are actually going!
the snow is easily 2ft deep everywhere local to me just now. 🙄
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WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO snow killing my business?????? Not on your nelly! My village is completely snowed in, now here is how bad it is, I have a 4X4 with off road tyres on it, I can drive in pretty much anything, My workshop is 6 mins down the road and I’m not going in…. BUT
Because everyone is off work and most of my business sales are on-line focussed, sales are going through the roof, especially in magnetics and supply only graphics. People have nothing better to do than to sit at home and browse the internet for stuff that they need but (especially tradesmen) don’t normally find the time to look for.
Honestly I have spent most of the say replying to enquiries about signs and sending out electronic invoices. I have had nearly 2k of orders come in just this morning and I’m not done yet… I’m chuffed as an underweight turkey at Xmas…!
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quote John Harding:Yes v good Martin – you dont do jokes normally 😀
John, I never do jokes, I don’t have a sense of humour. Martin Cole just interpreted it as me being funny but really I was dead serious 😉
Robert, you need to be in an area where there are more council officials, bet the roads would be clear then :lol1: Well that’s what I’ve been told anyway 😉
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mo, ive a 4×4 too mate. drives no problem in the snow and im at work just now. we are extremely busy and the orders still coming in. but we are quickly running out of stock due to nobody delivering to us. we get 2-3 deliveries a day and havent had any since last week! im now taking our guys to fitting in my jeep and doing deliveries in it too. just to get by. still… our phones ringing off the hook with clowns asking why their sign hasnt been fitted or van not done. ive said, if they think they can get their vehicle to us, we will gladly fit it here. 😉 :lol1: 🙄
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quote John Harding:Yes v good Martin – you dont do jokes normally 😀Snow here on the South Eastern Riviera is building nicely to bring out all the idiots that cant drive and should stay at home (hot) thats not me btw
as you say mate, the ill equipped, confidence lacking paranoid drivers should stay a home, I went to hastings tues evening, heavy snow and ice but no probs until i got to commuter land! took as long to do the 3miles into the residential area i needed to get to as it did the rest of the journey,
I passed cars, lorries and 4×4’s, doesn’t matter what is being driven if the driver can’t actually drive on slippery stuff. then there are the two mile an hour drivers, the ones who haven’t yet susses that on a hill the cars weight will provide more backward momentum the the wheel can provide forward at such stupidly slow speeds.
No.1, smooth careful driving using gears to carefully brake (even in an auto, use it semi auto)
No.2, momentum, don’t stop for anybody on a hill, if someone gets stuck and you can go round without stopping or getting in someones way, then do it, if you want to be a here and save the damsel in distress in the audi 4×4 then get to the top first and walk back.
No.3, use the brakes to an absolute minimum.
No.4, if ya can’t do all the above hen stay at home!the return journey from hastings was ridiculous, we went straight up two steep hills that i’d watched several cars and a bmw X5 all fail on while loading my van, weaved my way through half a dozen boy racer numpties who were all in one long thing made of about 5 saxo’s, corsa’s etc and got the the main hill, half way up and mr ‘too slow’ transit gets stuck, 3 people get out and bounce on the rear step, nicely compacting the snow into more ice as they lurch forward a couple of feet at a time, two cars following slowly and just fine, then the car in front of me decides to wheelspin his way, zig-zagging up the hill at a mile an hour and compacting it futher.
I gave up and did a three point slide to face down the hill, very nervy at times (about 35° slope) as there were cars, 4×4’s, vans and even an ambulance jammed into parked cars, each other and the kerb on the 1mile or so descent, In a very unchivelrous manner I worked my way to the bottom without any problems, hit the seafront and other than a few small stops for lights, had no reason to drive under 15mph in the worst of it, then 20-25mph, still took 4hrs to do a 1.5hr round trip though, all cos of other people getting stuck!
i don;t even have a 4×4, just a lwb vivaro, i’m very happy with the way she behaved, especially carrying only a couple of hundred kg max!
anyways, No, the snow isn’t causing me problems, the teachers not getting to school are. the people getting stuck are, the crappy nasty halfords wiper blades i bought last month are, the council not properly clearing the roads are -though they’ve improved on last year.
snow problems! nearly all online and design stuff at mo, accounts are trickling in so not going to starve for a wee while either. Like Rob it’s also giving me chance to get on with stuff in the workshop and tidy up too,
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Hugh, that’s why I won’t go out at the moment, not because I doubt my own capabilities but because of those who haven’t got a clue how to drive.
My worry is that I will end up getting stranded because of someone else and when you only have one leg that works properly being stranded is not really an option :lol1: :lol1: -
quote Martin:Hugh, that’s why I won’t go out at the moment, not because I doubt my own capabilities but because of those who haven’t got a clue how to drive.
My worry is that I will end up getting stranded because of someone else and when you only have one leg that works properly being stranded is not really an option :lol1: :lol1:I know what you Mean Martin, it’s always the ‘others’! that’s my main worry when going out in snow or extreme conditions.
Because of my camping and fishing, I usually have sleeping bags, air beds and cookers in the van somewhere so would, if i had to, park up and sleep relatively cosily, I also make sure i’ve always got a good amount of fuel, enough to keep running overnight if need be. that said, i’ve not been fishing in so long that the sugar and coffee is prob a solid lump, the tea bags soggy and the powdered milk out of date!
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Rode my push bike to and from work Tuesday did office work, Wednesday stayed at home, today got the tram into work and walked to a job with a ladder carried over my shoulder on rope and cordless drill to fit 3 signs in town!!!! Not been that busy since a very very busy spell so catching up on office work, the roads here are OK but cant get the van out of my road around 12 inches here. Rich
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I expect we are lucky we have barely 2" the main roads are clear bitterly cold though.
Lynn
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We just got dumped on again here..been snowing sinc early morning..schools closed, nobody able to get into work. More snow expected today. Great craic!
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OK , I’ll tempt fate, it’s nearly 12 o’clock and it hasn’t snowed here at all today :lol1: :lol1:
Well not yet anyway, probably start about 5 mins after I post this :lol1: :lol1:
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well its pelting it down with snow again, can’t get to work. gridlock everywhere, trains off, buses, taxi’s….
work is pilling up production wise, but no deliveries in well over a week, things just getting worse now…
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Well I was starting to get worried, we didn’t have any snow at all on Saturday and Sunday and I thought that might have been the end of it for a while but I shouldn’t have worried, it’s back with a vengeance today :lol1: :lol1:
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Perfectly clear here 😀 😀 😀
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Rob that’s what you call SNOW!!!!
Things getting back to normal now, had a 6am start this morning in Essex and found a nice patch of ice on the slip road to the M25, woke me up very quickly and managed to control the rear end !! NOT Fun at all back home now safe and in the warm Rich -
Glad to hear you managed to control your rear end Rich :lol1: :lol1:
I take it you managed to keep the van on the road as well 😉
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Thanks Martin and yes Both mate 😳
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Officially a whiteout here…again 🙁 Canny get anything done 🙁
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quote Harry Cleary:Officially a whiteout here…again 🙁 Canny get anything done 🙁Told you before Harry stay away from that stuff its not good for you.
Nigel
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Hasn’t affected my business at all.
I’ve just returned from a weeks holiday in Furteventura so I was shut down anyway. While away I was watching sky news every day hearing all about how the central belt of Scotland was brought to a halt over the last week or so.
Brought the warmer weather home with me though – it’s now thawing and the temperature was only -1 this morning when we got back into Glasgow airport.
Having said all that – I don’t think we lose out on work at all over the longer term as people just postpone their buying until the weather improves. It’s not like the pub or restaurant business where missed days can never be recovered. With signs if they don’t get them this week they get them next week or the week after so no point in fretting too much about lost turnover – we will all get it back once the country has returned to normal. Same applies to our suppliers who will be affected by the fact they can’t deliver and we aren’t ordering. Over the space of time the same amount of business will still be done 😀
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thought you’d been quiet Phill though I did hear laughing sounds several times 😀
Lynn
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Where did you stay in Fuerteventura Phill?
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Corrallejo John
Right here:-
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=28.721528,-13.869193&spn=0.001404,0.00284&t=h&z=19 -
Ah! Right by the dunes
We stayed a little further in Corrallejo TownLoads of sand everywhere and we’re not even talking about the beach!!!
We saw loads of folk drive off the tarmac onto what they thought were laybys only to get stuck in sand!!!Hope you had a great time
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