On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:19:21 -0000, jbm wrote:

I don't think the amount of snow is relevant. What is mucking things up
completely at that airport is that since all the new development,
there's no where left to put the bloody stuff once it's been removed.

Eh? There are acres of flat ground around the taxi/run ways. You
don't have to place it in a nice neat heap on a concrete hard
standing.

A BAA spokesman hinted at that earlier this evening when he said it was
taking longer than anticipated to dispose of it.

Read: They haven't thought about how to shift it from the
taxiway/runway edges where the clearing kit shoves/blows as there
hasn't been enough to worry about in recent years. The solution is a
some big front loader diggers, big tipper wagons and some temporary
road laid out into the large areas between the parts that are needed.

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.