dadyassa Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Just watched the news, gritter lorries spreading dust on melted roads after a few hours of hot weather.How come the roads don`t melt in Spain ?Our temps exceed 35c or 40c regular, in fact its cloudy and still 28c air temp now at nearly 9 o/c.PS thunder storms on the way to you from Spain apparently ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Aren't your roads dust anyhow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted July 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Aren't your roads dust anyhow :lol: :lol: Yeah but there is tar under the dust.They just relaid part of the 340 near me, three lane highway, they just coned off the lanes one at a time and resurfaced it about a hundred mtrs at a time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 PS thunder storms on the way to you from Spain apparently ;)Good, I love a good thunderstorm and it should help to cool things down B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 PS thunder storms on the way to you from Spain apparently ;)Good, I love a good thunderstorm and it should help to cool things down B)Don't forget to pull your plugs folks if/when the storms come along.It isn't a myth about computers being destroyed by electrical storms - I've seen the results too often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 Don't forget to pull your plugs folks if/when the storms come along.It isn't a myth about computers being destroyed by electrical storms - I've seen the results too often.Very good advice -pops-I forgot to mention that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 No rain yet here in Staffordshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 In the days of dial up, my modem got fried by a lightening strike and I was very lucky that was all that got fried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted July 21, 2006 Report Share Posted July 21, 2006 Just watched the news, gritter lorries spreading dust on melted roads after a few hours of hot weather.How come the roads don`t melt in Spain ?Our temps exceed 35c or 40c regular, in fact its cloudy and still 28c air temp now at nearly 9 o/c.I take it you are referring to this article?It's a very good question as we rarely get temperatures as high as in Spain so how come UK roads can't manage heatwave conditions and yet Spanish roads can?Answer: pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deuces wild Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 PS thunder storms on the way to you from Spain apparently ;)Good, I love a good thunderstorm and it should help to cool things down B) Don't forget to pull your plugs folks if/when the storms come along.It isn't a myth about computers being destroyed by electrical storms - I've seen the results too often. Yep...great advice! It happened to us several years ago. Left for vacation....monitor and computer (only one at the time) turned off but not unplugged. Fancy surge protector in between them and the electrical outlet so I thought it was fine. Came back from vacation to find the computer and monitor were fried from a lighting strike during a severe storm.Lesson learned. Computers and monitors are being unplugged before we leave for vacation tomorrow! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted July 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 Just watched the news, gritter lorries spreading dust on melted roads after a few hours of hot weather.How come the roads don`t melt in Spain ?Our temps exceed 35c or 40c regular, in fact its cloudy and still 28c air temp now at nearly 9 o/c.I take it you are referring to this article?It's a very good question as we rarely get temperatures as high as in Spain so how come UK roads can't manage heatwave conditions and yet Spanish roads can?Answer: pass Similar happenings, but the bit I saw was from the Essex area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted July 22, 2006 Report Share Posted July 22, 2006 I can only guess that because UK roads don't often experience heatwave conditions, they don't allow for this when constructing them hence the meltdown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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