Saturday 27/1/2007 Page: 16
AS temperatures soar across Australia, spare a thought for former Corangamite Mayor Brendan Ryan who is working in the United States during a massive winter storm."I left 40 degree Celsius weather in Australia and came over here to minus 20 degrees - a 60 degree temperature change," Mr Ryan said yesterday.
"We have noticed being out in some of the worst weather that our eyelashes freeze, including hair inside our nostrils, and if we don't continuously blink that the tears in our eyes start to freeze, hurting them." "When the Danish complain of the cold, you know it is bad," Mr Ryan admitted.
The chilly conditions through central America have left at least 25 people dead, cancelled hundreds of flights and destroyed an estimated $600 million in citrus crops.
Mr Ryan is in the United States as part of a fact-finding mission in his role as an occupational health and safety manager for the Suzlon wind turbine company.
The 33-year-old, formerly from Camperdown, is now based in South Australia's Clare Valley where Suzlon is constructing 45 turbines at Hallett and 42 at Snowtown. "This is Suzlon's first project in Australia, but they have put up many of these type (S88 turbines) in the USA mid-west," Mr Ryan explained.
The three-man team also includes an Australian wind technician and a Danish installation manager. They inspected projects in Iowa before heading to Oklahoma. "Our job is to mainly document what may go wrong and if we can do it better," he said.
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