I imagine the weather would be more of a problem. What with travelling to and from jobs, winter congestion, access to some places blocked and so on. I doubt the darkness would be as much as a problem if they are kitted out with flood lighting.

The bigger concern is that BT clearly cannot meet the existing demand so exatcly how are they going to be able to take on the BDUK wwork with it's tight timescales and penalty clauses for not meeting them.. Will BT then divert resorces from other work to avoid paying out money for failing to meet BDUK contracts?

Where is this flooding. The Met Office and environment agency have no reported instances of flooding anywhere in the UK

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

Where is this flooding. The Met Office and environment agency have no reported instances of flooding anywhere in the UK

Not hard to find. This is what the Beeb says, right now:

In reference to www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2635167#extra-uk-content:

Weather Warning
Thursday 4th October
YELLOW WARNING of RAIN
Heavy rain is likely to move eastwards across southwest England on Thursday evening.
With the ground already being almost saturated, the public should be aware of the risk of localised flooding.
Valid on Thursday from 1900 until 2355.
Thursday 4th October
YELLOW WARNING of RAIN
There is the potential for periods of heavy rain across parts of Southwest England, Wales and southwestern parts of the Midlands from the beginning of Friday until Saturday morning. The heavy rain will also be accompanied by strong winds or gales along the southern coastal areas at times.
However there remains considerable uncertainty in the northward extent of this heavy rain and the area covered by the Alert is likely to be adjusted further as the event approaches.
The public should be aware of the possibility of disruption to travel due to localised flooding.
Valid from 0005 Friday until 0600 Saturday.
Thursday 4th October
YELLOW EARLY WARNING of RAIN
Further periods of heavy rain are likely to affect Southwest England and parts of Wales during Sunday and Monday. There is still considerable uncertainty over the details of the heavy rain and the alert area shown adjusted as the event approaches.
The public should be aware of the possibility of disruption to travel due to localised flooding
Valid from 0005 Sunday until 2355 Monday.
Flood Warning
Thursday 4th October
There are flood warnings currently in force in the following region: NORTHEAST (3).
Further updates will appear here.

That's both the EA and the Met Office involved.

But that is beside the point. The conversation was about general winter weather, not immediate warnings. And again, you choose to interrupt, and offer an opinion that, once again is defeated by the tiniest amount of research.

You, sir, are a troll

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

The bigger concern is that BT clearly cannot meet the existing demand so exatcly how are they going to be able to take on the BDUK wwork with it's tight timescales and penalty clauses for not meeting them.. Will BT then divert resorces from other work to avoid paying out money for failing to meet BDUK contracts?

Another hijack, based on assumptions (the tight timescales and the penalty clauses), based on a project that has no specific plans yet. All to further a personal agenda.

Yawn.

Trolling is not welcome, if you want to play that game then go elsewhere.

You made a perfectly reasonable opening post, though as has been said it is normal to give at a minimum the link to the source of your info, and preferably to find the original source and link to that as well.

I even supported you against a criticism!

The once a decent discussion gets going a bit, you come back being silly again. Thus destroying what might have been the start of not being a troll.

In reply to a post by Ribble:

36 hour basic working week.

A fairly normal working week then, our fitters do 40 + O/T, it would be nice to do the longer working day and have more days off.

I doubt the darkness would be as much as a problem if they are kitted out with flood lighting.

The 'big boys' but the singleton engineers, it's a helmet lamp and a hand torch. There is 'WITHOD' gear (working in the hours of darkness) but the lamps are precious little use if you've to climb a pole. You end up with what you actually want to see being lost in your own shadow. Since the stance is 'you make your own risk assessment' most won't climb after dark, as any enquiry re an accident would put the blame squarely with the engineer.

I have heard that in current conditions there is something called contractual overtime so I suspect very few are only doing 36 hours at present!.

Maybe Zarjaz would like to comment, although I think he is an an area not affected by flooding at present.

Anywhere other than the South East and East Anglia seems to have had some flooded areas over the past two weeks.