But my experiences are clearly nothing compared to operators working in the UK this January, which has been the warmest and the windiest that I can remember in the decade I have lived in the UK. There is weird weather all around this year, some of which is apparently caused partly by the El Niño Pacific ocean warming pattern.
Of course it is too early to say whether wind was
a factor in the Liverpool, UK, tower crane accident
this month.
But extreme weather demands the best out of crane workers—the difficult judgements about whether to call off work, whether to take extra precautions, and how to take them, or just the perserverence to get a job done when it is late, cold, wet, or dark.
Hats off to them. Or actually, a breeze is coming up: I’m putting my hat back on.
And heading inside.
