Carl: On this side of the state we received less than an inch. I’m real happy about that.
We got nearly eight inches last night, with more forecasted for Monday [sigh].
Just heard that some places around here got a foot of the stuff. We’ve got the flurries in our forecast every day through Wednesday (including today), with more accunulation likely tomorrow (Monday). Driveway still looks good, except that the plows came through and moved some of the street into it. I hope they plowed the road up to the tower overnight–it never got done yesterday; the construction equipment was busy keeping Global 2 open (at least five front-end loaders, about a dozen dump trucks, one road grader, two Bobcats, and a couple of trucks spreading salt, of which about a half-dozen carloads were unloaded here Friday).
…And Carl, just a comment to go along with your winter comments…Noted this morning it is to be 79 degrees in central Florida {Orlando}, for a high today…Nice contrast. But I believe they will participate in the cold blast coming down from Alaska later this week. Of course, modified by the time it gets to them.
Someone at work was just asking about Orlando’s temperatures yesterday. Maybe I could get someone to Tow-me to Orlando by Dawn. Our usual conductor hasn’t worked for a week, so the air won’t get much hotter as it passes us.
Sidewalk is clear and ready to be dumped on again; at least we should be able to find it after tomorrow’s snow. I got stuck while parking at work this morning, but it only took a couple of minutes with a shovel to free me.
Well, I guess that now it can be told…this was on the UTU website, following publication on UP’s own site and elsewhere. Pat and I did some shopping and banking today, but were careful to avoid spending Uncle Pete’s money.
| UPRR workers get double pay - accidentally |
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| NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - In these tough economic times and with the Union Pacific Railroad having to furlough many of its employees, it might be nice to learn that your pay was doubled, but not when you have to give it back, the North Platte Telegraph reports. On Thursday (Jan. 8), Union Pacific employees who receive direct deposit learned that their bank accounts had been fattened up by double paychecks due to a slight glitch in a new pay system set up by Union Pacific for their employees. The new system paid the employees, but so did the old one. According to Corporate Relations and Media Director Mark Davis, the miscue was caught by the railroad and action has been taken to rectify the situation. “It seems that our union employees who receive direct deposit were double-paid [Thursday],” he said. “Anyone who receives a paycheck other than direct deposit were not affected and we are working with the banks to rectify this as quickly as we can.” Davis said Union Pacific employees don’t have to do anything themselves and that it would be taken care of for them. “The employees don’t have to worry about doing anything,” he said. “We’ve let all of our employees know about what happened and we’ll take care of the problem along with the banks we are working with. We do want to let our employees know that we are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused for them.” Davis said that should any employees incur extra charges due to the mishap, Union Pacific would review each |
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In retrospect, it’s amazing that we got through that snowfall without things slowing down too much because of switch or other issues. Now, we’ll see what happens tonight. Not as much snow forecast, but the factors (snow, low temp, and wind) have combined to cause a blizzard warning to be issued for us from midnight until noon–and a blizzard watch again starting Wednesday afternoon. As they say, stay tuned–this could get interesting!
Haven’t heard yet whether Joe’s wreck (CSX, Defiance) was weather-related, but I’m suspecting that it was–at least indirectly.
Hi guys,
I’m locking this thread down due to it’s size. You may have noticed this with other threads around the forum. I’m going to start locking current editions and ask that new editions be created on a more frequent basis (monthly) so the forum doesn’t have to pull around all these threads with dozens and dozens of pages.
Thanks,
Bergie