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Council Officers Who Led Last Week's Massive Snow Clearance Operation Have Denied Being Caught Out By The Extreme Weather

1987 , Norfolk (County)

Cat no. 79155

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Scenes of snow clearance after exceptionally deep snowfall.

Scenes of snowploughs and tractors clearing roads after exceptionally heavy snowfall. Aerial views of rural roads surrounded by snowy landscape. Reporter Chris Young says this was probably the East of England region’s largest snow clearance operation for at least 20 years after much of England and Wales was paralysed by the weather. One snowdrift in Suffolk was 18 feet deep. 20,000 workers were out clearing roads with up to 15,000 diggers and snowploughs at a cost of £5 million a day. The County Surveyors’ Society say that diggers working at 1 mph are more effective than snowploughs at 20 mph when the snow is more than a foot deep. David Gardner of the County Surveyors’ Society is asked whether the local councils have been too slow in digging people out of the snow. He explains that they need to concentrate on priority routes such as main roads, and routes to hospital and schools. Housing in rural areas may not be cleared initially, and that does help keep traffic off the roads. He denies that the councils were unprepared and says that each has an emergency plan for snowy weather. They have the workers, the plant and the salt required, but the depth of snowfall and the drifts have been a particular challenge. More scenes of snow clearance, vehicles driven slowly and a car being towed. A few words of sound have been muted at the end of the interview. This video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Snow; Weather; Snow clearance; Emergencies; Roads

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Council Officers Who Led Last Week's Massive Snow Clearance Operation Have Denied Being Caught Out By The Extreme Weather

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