Author Archives: Grant Dunn

The winter of 2011 lies ahead and if the last two winters are anything to go by then it’s hard to be optimistic this year. If we don’t learn from the past, it is said that we are doomed to repeat it so let us see what we should do this coming winter. The big freezes during the last two winters in 2009 and 2010 had quite catastrophic effects on people and on their physical and financial health. A number of people and not just the elderly and infirm or those living alone did unfortunately and unnecessarily die in the UK and Ireland. Some of these deaths occurred after people fell to the ground often quite close to their homes. Others succumbed to hypothermia in their own homes and even as the big thaw set in following the big freeze-up there were plenty of further casualties with hospitals being inundated with patients seeking treatment for broken bones following slips and falls. Continue reading →