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| Author: | grandad [ Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | falling trees? |
I have just had a call from a parent to say that one of the schools that we take students to is closed tomorrow because of the forcast for high winds. Apparently there is a large beech tree in the grounds that the school wanted to cut down because they thought it was in danger of being blown down in strong winds. The council and local residents slapped a presevation order on the tree to stop this from happening. Do you think the school are right to close for the duration of the storm or do you think they are using the storm as a way of "blackmailing" the council into letting them cut the tree down. I mean, the tree must have withstood a few storms in the past. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
grandad wrote: I have just had a call from a parent to say that one of the schools that we take students to is closed tomorrow because of the forcast for high winds. Apparently there is a large beech tree in the grounds that the school wanted to cut down because they thought it was in danger of being blown down in strong winds. The council and local residents slapped a preservation order on the tree to stop this from happening. Do you think the school are right to close for the duration of the storm or do you think they are using the storm as a way of "blackmailing" the council into letting them cut the tree down. I mean, the tree must have withstood a few storms in the past. All School high heid yins close Schools for the tiniest of perceived threats these days, a wee bit wind, wee bit slush or a wee bit of anything. they are scared of the day they have never seen, worse still their needless paranoia will be passed on to another generation of kids who in turn will grow up into a generation of soft lads and lasses. Things like that never stopped us getting to School....only a mechanical breakdown of the School bus caused a missed day..Gales, storms or blizzards we got there. The Trees got two options..It stays up or it falls down...Eventually every tree falls down so whats the fuss in hastening it's demise by a year or two..its just a bloody tree!! |
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| Author: | cabby john [ Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
Quote: I have just had a call from a parent to say that one of the schools that we take students to is closed tomorrow Unless they have a report re it not being safe, then one can assume that they have used up all of their "Inset" days for this year 
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Sun Oct 27, 2013 2:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
cabby john wrote: Quote: I have just had a call from a parent to say that one of the schools that we take students to is closed tomorrow Unless they have a report re it not being safe, then one can assume that they have used up all of their "Inset" days for this year This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Teachers are becoming hated more than Unite.
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
grandad wrote: I have just had a call from a parent to say that one of the schools that we take students to is closed tomorrow because of the forcast for high winds. Apparently there is a large beech tree in the grounds that the school wanted to cut down because they thought it was in danger of being blown down in strong winds. The council and local residents slapped a presevation order on the tree to stop this from happening. Do you think the school are right to close for the duration of the storm or do you think they are using the storm as a way of "blackmailing" the council into letting them cut the tree down. I mean, the tree must have withstood a few storms in the past. I think they are covering their bums. |
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| Author: | Nidge2 [ Mon Oct 28, 2013 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
Sussex wrote: grandad wrote: I have just had a call from a parent to say that one of the schools that we take students to is closed tomorrow because of the forcast for high winds. Apparently there is a large beech tree in the grounds that the school wanted to cut down because they thought it was in danger of being blown down in strong winds. The council and local residents slapped a presevation order on the tree to stop this from happening. Do you think the school are right to close for the duration of the storm or do you think they are using the storm as a way of "blackmailing" the council into letting them cut the tree down. I mean, the tree must have withstood a few storms in the past. I think they are covering their bums. I hope there's some trees uprooted round here today, I'm getting low on logs. |
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| Author: | grandad [ Mon Oct 28, 2013 2:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
Well all we got was a slight breeze and some rain. |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
grandad wrote: Well all we got was a slight breeze and some rain. You didn't get the really heavy rain very early then ? we got stronger winds on the Sunday day with one tree down sticking out about 18 inches into the carriageway ( casterton Road) on sunday the police put cones and notices up 26 hours later Apart from that nowt BUT this fear of trees falling does seem to be a fixation these days 90% of all the large trees in our town that were on public roads have been cut down and replaced with silly miniature ones or been heavily pollarded and in most cases it was people living nearby worried the tree might fall it is a shame that all you see now are buildings with no green canopy |
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| Author: | grandad [ Mon Oct 28, 2013 9:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
edders23 wrote: grandad wrote: Well all we got was a slight breeze and some rain. You didn't get the really heavy rain very early then ? I wouldn't know about early this morning, I was getting my beauty sleep. But none of the places that usually get big puddles when we have heavy rain were affected. |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: falling trees? |
usually you get a lot miore rain than we do yes we had rivers running down our streets at 06.00 am but had eased off to light rain by 7am the big puddles gone by lunchtime |
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