You can generally plan on a few snow days every year. In fact, Columbus City Schools builds a calendar that makes allowances for five snow days – five days when weather conditions are viewed as too harsh for kids to attend school . . . indoors.

Snow won't stop this Scioto Mile worker

Regardless of the cold, snow and sleet, the construction crew will be working outdoors on the Scioto Mile. The team doesn’t take snow days; it’s an all-weather workforce that honestly isn’t hindered by ambient conditions. Mother Nature simply doesn’t faze them. As long as there’s long underwear, gloves and warm boots, the project moves along.

All sorts of Scioto Mile projects are progressing along in the cold weather months of 2010. The big compacters are out and running and the underground utility work moves forward. These days, you might see the concrete or masonry teams on-the-job too.

This plastic tent is more for the building's protection, than to keep workers warm

And while there are plastic tents and space heaters over the landscape, it’s not actually for the crew (they like their own fleece); it’s for the raw material.  Mortar needs to be a certain temperature to set properly.

Quite honestly, it’d take a hurricane to hold them back. Literally. The only thing that stops a construction crew is dangerously high winds or a flooding rain. And although the Scioto River is a pretty powerful body of water, chances are pretty slim it’ll spawn a storm of epic tsunamic proportions.

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