Working in the Falkland Islands?

[BossHogg]

Wouldn't it have been the PSA who were responsible for the design?

I've a vague recollection that the ditches are there to collect drifting snow so there may be method in the madness. I've always been intrigued by FI snow - even in a blizzard, it never seems to settle anywhere.

Oh it settles, up against whatever solid object the strong winds blow it against.

 

[baldbof]

..........

I've a vague recollection that the ditches are there to collect drifting snow so there may be method in the madness. I've always been intrigued by FI snow - even in a blizzard, it never seems to settle anywhere.

That 8-foot deep drift against my room window that I woke up to one morning must have been a mirage because it wasn't there when I went to bed the previous evening. It was gone in a couple of days; the wind blew it away towards The Bronx.

 

[rmn]

ISTR Fang posted a pic of it.

ETA
Here in fact.

What are those talk green upright things in the background?

 

[chimera]

Which is correct, Royal Engineers cocked up on that one!

The road was neither designed or built by the Royal Engineers.

 

[TamH70]

What are those talk green upright things in the background?

Cunningly disguised Yagi-Uda antennae/mast arrays.

 

[Cutaway]

What are those talk green upright things in the background?

Broccoli.

 

[BossHogg]

The road was neither designed or built by the Royal Engineers.

I stand corrected, that's what I was informed when I questioned the severity of the ditches during my posting in 1991.

 

[Notachance]

I stand corrected, that's what I was informed when I questioned the severity of the ditches during my posting in 1991.

Yes but no one tells the RMP the truth. It would be too hurtful.

 

[BossHogg]

Why let the truth get in the way of a good fit up.

 

[Fang_Farrier]

Wouldn't it have been the PSA who were responsible for the design?

I've a vague recollection that the ditches are there to collect drifting snow so there may be method in the madness. I've always been intrigued by FI snow - even in a blizzard, it never seems to settle anywhere.

It used to be the same in Orkney, the wind would just blow the snow horizontally however the drifts were never in front of walls but always behind objects.
So a fence beside the road could lead to a series of small ridges, one per fence posts so that it was like driving over a really long rumble strip.
There's tales of the ambulance stopping at a house and by the time they had seen to the casualty and were returning to the vehicle, the drift on the lee side it was up to the roof.

 

[rmn]

The curse of the dental department returns. Knock on the office door yesterday morning. Chap from Estates tells us there is a flood in the dental department next door. 10 minutes later, water starts to seep ominously under our door. Exciting siight of various folk trying to stem the flow with assorted implements including dust pans and brushes. Our office carpet is now "infused with soiled water"!
Seemingly a sewerage pipe under dental has been disturbed by building contractors resulting in a back flow of "infused water" !!!
Deep joy.

 

[single malt]

The curse of the dental department returns. Knock on the office door yesterday morning. Chap from Estates tells us there is a flood in the dental department next door. 10 minutes later, water starts to seep ominously under our door. Exciting siight of various folk trying to stem the flow with assorted implements including dust pans and brushes. Our office carpet is now "infused with soiled water"!
Seemingly a sewerage pipe under dental has been disturbed by building contractors resulting in a back flow of "infused water" !!!
Deep joy.

Ohh Sh*t

 

[rmn]

Ohh Sh*t

Indeed.

 

[Fang_Farrier]

The curse of the dental department returns. Knock on the office door yesterday morning. Chap from Estates tells us there is a flood in the dental department next door. 10 minutes later, water starts to seep ominously under our door. Exciting siight of various folk trying to stem the flow with assorted implements including dust pans and brushes. Our office carpet is now "infused with soiled water"!
Seemingly a sewerage pipe under dental has been disturbed by building contractors resulting in a back flow of "infused water" !!!
Deep joy.

 

[Fang_Farrier]

On a more serious note.

There was all sorts of work having to be undertaken.
Issues involved, old imperial pipes being joined to new metric ones.
Old metal being joined to plastic.
Old clay being joined to plastic.

Pipes going into walls but nobody knowing where they actually came out.

Bits of the new build obstructing essential work.