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Brr! It’s c-c-c-cold
Published January 2, 2010
The song titled “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is an apt description of current weather conditions in Marshall County.
“Although our workers have got to stay warm, we can’t allow any open fires,” said Jack Hanes, construction superintendent for the new Albertville High School project.
Hanes said the brickwork couldn’t be started until the temperature reaches 40 degrees; otherwise, the mortar will freeze and would result in the brickwork collapsing.
“If it stays cold like this and (the masons) can’t work but an hour or two a day, it affects our schedule. We are scheduled for him to be through by the end of January.”
“As of today, if the temps get up to 45 today, he might be able to work four hours. They will have to quit around one or two o’clock to give the mortar time to set up before it freezes. Otherwise if we come back in the morning, that thing (brick wall) will be laying on the ground,” Hanes said.
Two golfers undeterred by the cold were Guntersville residents Chris Bashaw and Ray Thompson.
Bashaw said he wanted to play because it is supposed to snow, so this is the only day he would have a chance. Asked if the temperature bothered him he responded with a smile, “It’s only the second time I have played – I don’t know the difference.”
Thompson said he came out for golfing because Bashaw called and asked him to play. “I’m kind of regretting it now,” he said.
Independent contractor Stanley Bryant, his brother, Brawn Bryant, and Richard Motes braved the cold to finish a garage for Bryant’s daughter and her husband.
“It’s tough working, but we enjoy it when the wind isn’t blowing,” Stanley said.
Andrew Eagles and Nate Hopkins, employees of Alexander’s Lawn Care in Arab, were clearing debris from the Jamison Inn in Albertville.
“I hate it. I grew up in Miami,” Eagles said. Hopkins, who said he didn’t mind the weather, is headed for colder climate at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in a few weeks.
Charter Communications assistant tech Matthew Burdett, working from a bucket truck, said the cold makes his fingers and face awfully cold, but it’s the wind that’s rough.
Marshall-DeKalb Electric Cooperative’s apprentice lineman Heath Davidson, high atop a power pole in Boaz with a chainsaw, followed in the best tradition of lineman before him – working in all kinds of weather conditions.
Asked what was the worst thing about the cold, he answered simply, “the cold.”
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