This post was published to Production Team Blogs at 20:27:25 06/04/2014
The East Coast
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Visiting two of our suppliers in West
Deptford and Wayne in the US proved
very difficult indeed. The US has been
battered by frequent storm systems
moving in over the country and in my
one week out in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey I received two of them. Storm
system Maximus and Niko. The first
supplier I visited in West Deptford had
an open site however half the staff had
not turned up due to heavy snow.
Fortunately I rented a tough 4x4 that
got me there and back ok. I had a tour
of the facility and then moved our
meeting to the following day.
The next day the snow was still falling
but the snow ploughs were doing a
fantastic job and I had my meeting with
the client successfully.
At the end of the meeting I drove
through Philadelphia to get to Wayne.
The traffic was terrible due to the
weather and the time of day but the
views were outstanding.
My second supplier visit was much
worse. Overnight we had a bout of
freezing rain. This pulled down trees
over power lines.
When I arrived on site the power was
out. Employees were not allowed on
site. I left the area and retuned to my
hotel and ended up watching back to
back survival documentaries.
The next day the site had power and we
went ahead with the meeting. The
roads were still bad but I got to the
airport on time. What a trip!
