It's snowing!

[watervole]

I appreciate this isn't exactly a novelty for most of you, but here in Dorset we see snow about once a decade.

It's now up to a massive 3mm in depth!

(so now you can all tell me about how it reaches six foot drifts where you live...)

Comments

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

Bit like that here, I live in the Cheshire Corridor, all the snow falls on the Peak District or Welsh hills, we get very little.

From your description I can probably place your home to a couple of hundred metres.You gave almost enough information to localise you (and in posting this the reverse is also true).I'm less than 6 miles from you (probably les than 4 but I'd need to measure that on a map). So we're describing the same area.

I don't use that road a lot, but the only occasion I didn't carry my camera while using that road was the perfect alien landscape with the plant rising out of the mist. Sods Law rules.

btw I thought that plant was owned by Salt Union these days.

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

btw I thought that plant was owned by Salt Union these days.

Oops, wrong plant!

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Still Brunner Mond as far as I am aware, Sovay plant (which has me singing 'Solvay, solvay' every time I drive past on the way to work! The road sign saying 'Steam 1 mile' isn't joking either, I moved here in the summer and it was a mild winter the first couple of years but when it's cold, boy, do you get steam/fog down that road.

The humungous pipes which criss cross Northwich weirded me out at first (the kids and cats use the one over the brook as a crossing into the fields) particularly when they steam but I'm used to them now.

FF, who really likes where she lives.

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

The humungous pipes which criss cross Northwich weirded me out at first (the kids and cats use the one over the brook as a crossing into the fields) particularly when they steam but I'm used to them now

The insulated silver and/or green or the cast iron ones?
The insulated ones save approximately 35 million in energy costs each year. The cast iron are rather less benign.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

Ours is one of the old ones, cast iron I think but it's also insulated, except where the kids have picked the tar off to write graphitti.
I don't worry overmuch, my last company built the very high tech Thor Chemicals plant across the canal, there are loads of chemical plants round here.

The insulated ones transport steam or hot water from one plant to the other, don't they?

FF

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

The insulated ones transport steam or hot water from one plant to the other, don't they?


Steam, iirc there's a CHP station (it hasn't been their that long, BM recycled part of one of their sites to build it. The fun thing was the palaver about 'industrial heritage', the place was collapsing from corrosion anyway!) to provide power for the Solvay process, most of the steam is used at the other plant. even with a couple of miles of pipework they reckon the system is 80% effecient plus they get security of supply.