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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Shackeng on 05 January 2010, 13:36:13
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40cms forecast tonight including Wiltshire ::) ::) ::)
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Sledging Working from home tomorrow I reckon. ::)
Kevin
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Listening to the news reports today it would seem that a large part of the country has ground to a halt. If in WW2 Hitler had mastered dropping large quantitys of snow instead of bombs on Blighty the Germans would have wupped our arses by 1940!
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Listening to the news reports today it would seem that a large part of the country has ground to a halt. If in WW2 Hitler had mastered dropping large quantitys of snow instead of bombs on Blighty the Germans would have wupped our arses by 1940!
Back then people would have just carried on as normal, its the media playing it all out of proportion.
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Listening to the news reports today it would seem that a large part of the country has ground to a halt. If in WW2 Hitler had mastered dropping large quantitys of snow instead of bombs on Blighty the Germans would have wupped our arses by 1940!
My parents were snowed in for a week at RAF Coltishall during the war. Roads were impassable, but it didn't stop the war effort.!
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Snowpack is a uniform 2ft. deep here now.....I`ve cleared the (400 yard long) driveway following each 'fall'......`hand-cleared 6" of fresh snow this morning; now, there`s just been a further 3"+ fallen in the past hour or so: I could`ve cried. :'(
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Snowpack is a uniform 2ft. deep here now.....I`ve cleared the (400 yard long) driveway following each 'fall'......`hand-cleared 6" of fresh snow this morning; now, there`s just been a further 3"+ fallen in the past hour or so: I could`ve cried. :'(
I do feel for you Debs... The project this summer is definitely a Plough for the front of Lazarus ;) ;)
The you could use him on the road in this weather and claim you were clearing the lanes ::) ::)
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nout here in Slough.
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Listening to the news reports today it would seem that a large part of the country has ground to a halt. If in WW2 Hitler had mastered dropping large quantitys of snow instead of bombs on Blighty the Germans would have wupped our arses by 1940!
Back then people would have just carried on as normal, its the media playing it all out of proportion.
I don't think you can blame the media for once, though I agree it would be very nice to. They don't make the decisions to close the schools. They don't block the A14. They don't fail to send the gritting crews down my road. And they don't run out of salt for the roads. :)
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Sledging Working from home tomorrow I reckon. ::)
Kevin
Sledging .....i mean Working from home tomorrow too
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not working tommorow anyway, shame no decent hills around my neck of the woods
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Snowpack is a uniform 2ft. deep here now.....I`ve cleared the (400 yard long) driveway following each 'fall'......`hand-cleared 6" of fresh snow this morning; now, there`s just been a further 3"+ fallen in the past hour or so: I could`ve cried. :'(
While I admire your heroic efforts, and while I confess total ignorance of your circumstances, I keep wondering why you need to clear that driveway. It's not like there's a great choice of places to go once you get to the main road.
Presuming you have adequate supplies of food and drink, not to mention a mountain of Pedigree Chum, why don't you just retire to your bed, pull the duvet up, arrange the doggies decorously on top and wait patiently for the thaw?
As long as the electricity stays on, you've got OOF, radio, TV, the rest of the Internet and if all else fails you could phone someone up for a chat. :)
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Snowpack is a uniform 2ft. deep here now.....I`ve cleared the (400 yard long) driveway following each 'fall'......`hand-cleared 6" of fresh snow this morning; now, there`s just been a further 3"+ fallen in the past hour or so: I could`ve cried. :'(
While I admire your heroic efforts, and while I confess total ignorance of your circumstances, I keep wondering why you need to clear that driveway. It's not like there's a great choice of places to go once you get to the main road.
Presuming you have adequate supplies of food and drink, not to mention a mountain of Pedigree Chum, why don't you just retire to your bed, pull the duvet up, arrange the doggies decorously on top and wait patiently for the thaw?
As long as the electricity stays on, you've got OOF, radio, TV, the rest of the Internet and if all else fails you could phone someone up for a chat. :)
I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm :y
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woke up to 6 inches in hull this morning
the missus said she wants more :-?
still don't know what she means ;) ;) ;)
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We're told that Northants is getting 4" of snow tonight.
Lee
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I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm :y
Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.:y
......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off. ;)
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Not got a snow plough you can fit to the tractors? I had enough trouble shoveling the snow off our driveway, looking at the photos of your drive looks like a mission and a half!
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I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm :y
Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.:y
......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off. ;)
Agreed :y
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A few inches here
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I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm :y
Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.:y
......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off. ;)
Just call the RAF. They had to rescue some silly cow out walking her dog in Wales today.
It wasn't you was it Debs :-[ ;D
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Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off.
Alternatively, have you considered a set of skis for the Long-EZ? 8-)
Had a very "interesting" flight in the Canadian Rockies in a similarly equipped Cessna. Judgement of height during the approach and landing with nothing to use as a reference was kinda hard though. I ended up joining my imaginary circuit about 2500 feet too high! It was only when I spotted a little dot the shape of a windsock that I realised what had gone wrong. ;D
Chap I flew with worked delivering supplies to the various parties hiking across the mountains. :o
Kevin
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Alternatively, have you considered a set of skis for the Long-EZ? 8-)
Had a very "interesting" flight in the Canadian Rockies in a similarly equipped Cessna. Judgement of height during the approach and landing with nothing to use as a reference was kinda hard though. I ended up joining my imaginary circuit about 2500 feet too high! It was only when I spotted a little dot the shape of a windsock that I realised what had gone wrong. ;D
Chap I flew with worked delivering supplies to the various parties hiking across the mountains. :o
Kevin
:o I know my limitations!........slick li`l plane on slick li`l runways combined with marginal IMC conditions: no ta! ;)
At least your failed-approach was terrain clear, Kevin; not subterranean! :o
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I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm :y
Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.:y
......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off. ;)
Sorry, I don't know anything about farming - I may have lived in Deepest Suffolk for the last 15 years, and I may have lived in a Hollandse boerendorp for 18 years before that, but I really have no idea what you have to do on a farm. I come from Hampstead.
Surely you don't have to do much to cabbages when they're under 2 feet of snow? Likewise sheep.
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Just call the RAF. They had to rescue some silly cow out walking her dog in Wales today.
It wasn't you was it Debs :-[ ;D
Me, no-moooooo! ;D
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:o I know my limitations!........slick li`l plane on slick li`l runways combined with marginal IMC conditions: no ta! ;)
At least your failed-approach was terrain clear, Kevin; not subterranean! :o
It's good to learn how much you've got left to learn sometimes, and it was carried out with "expert supervision".
Kevin
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seeing as we haven't had proper snow for 30 years, people can't deal with it anymore
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I think Debs needs access so she can run her farm :y
Indeed!....even 4wd tractor can`t drive up steep and ice-slick hills.:y
......the reality is; once BIG drifts form, (here in the mountains) they can take weeks to clear and I don`t have reserves/supplies to last more than a week.
Better to keep access available, even at great physical cost; rather than be isolated, hungry/cold/lonely and cut off. ;)
We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels ;D
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We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels ;D
Include some sprout Jalfrezi and a box of swan vestas and he'll clear it. :y
Kevin
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We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels ;D
Include some sprout Jalfrezi and a box of swan vestas and he'll clear it. :y
Kevin
That could be the end of North Wales :o
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We'll send jimbob to the bottom of your drive with food parcels ;D
Include some sprout Jalfrezi and a box of swan vestas and he'll clear it. :y
Kevin
That could be the end of North Wales :o
Don't joke, we've added wind to our snow problems due to a nice bit of stilton! No danger of us running out of gas!!! :D :D
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its here now, been snowing for last hr. heathrow probably come to a standstill tomorrow now :)
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Snowpack is a uniform 2ft. deep here now.....I`ve cleared the (400 yard long) driveway following each 'fall'......`hand-cleared 6" of fresh snow this morning; now, there`s just been a further 3"+ fallen in the past hour or so: I could`ve cried. :'(
Bloody hell Debs! you must have muscles like Popeye by now!!!.....Belay that, I bet Popeye would look like a wimp next to you with a snow shovel ::) ::) ::) ::) ;D It was women like you who gave birth to the kind of man who built the British Empire (and kept it safe while he was in his cups through drink!!) :y :y :y :y :y :y :y
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Good inch maybe 2 here now, roads are getting steadily worse too ;D
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Swidnod missing it at the moment .. but looks like reading/ oxford is getting a bit .. :( if the low moves south west we'll get some soon .. :(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
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I was asked approx 1hr and alf ago by the sainsburys manager if could grit the car park :o :o I would do if i had access to a gritter i replied...Cant you just use a shovel he asked??? ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) :-X
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Snowing heavily here in North London now. Gritter just went by for the second time this evening and has made no difference to the road condition. Actually, I can't even see where the grit has been laid, so maybe his dispenser was jammed. ;) ;D
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Not a single flake here..................................yet. ;)
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Not a single flake here..................................yet. ;)
Or here ::) ::)
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The English riviera. :y ;D ;D ::)
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The English riviera. :y ;D ;D ::)
It'll be with you soon, Albs. ;)
Look at the radar...click the animation and you'll see a very good anticlockwise rotation of precipitation around the centre of the low. About another hour or so, old bean. Mark my words! :y I've just modified this: looking at the radar, it should be snowing in Essex by now. You need to open the curtains!!!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
My concern is whether the low sticks around for long. If it does, we'll get plenty of the white stuff. :o
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Swidnod missing it at the moment .. but looks like reading/ oxford is getting a bit .. :( if the low moves south west we'll get some soon .. :(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
6-8 inches here, roads just as bad as the last flurry before xmas but nowhere near the caos. Although m4 had a lane closed both ways between 10 and 11 with exit slip closed both ways at jcn 10, 329m due to an incident. This was the exact same place that ground Reading and the m4 to a halt last time(21 dec.)
Roads are traffic free compared to the last grid lock. People have learned and not been cought out as badly.
if it carries on like this there will be getting on for 1.5ft by morning.
Wheres me snowboard. Weeeeee. ;D
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I was asked approx 1hr and alf ago by the sainsburys manager if could grit the car park :o :o I would do if i had access to a gritter i replied...Cant you just use a shovel he asked??? ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) :-X
He's been promoted to his level of incompetence then... Or sidelined where he can't bo11*cks anything up!
Well, we've got about a foot of snow in Four Marks. Started dumping at about 1800 hrs and hasn't stopped. A31 as good as closed. A couple of volunteers with 4x4s keeping a few cars moving but for all intents closed.
Went out to take a few photos and came across a guy who'd abandoned his car and walked 4 miles already. Hoping to raise a mate of his in the village but mobile flat. Invited him in to warm up and make a few calls. Hopefully he's sorted, cos he's another 7 or 8 miles from home.
Useless idiot from the council is having a go at the 4x4 drivers for pulling people up the hill - and then having to go down on the wrong side of the road to pick up the next car - can't see him doing much to get people home. >:(
Kevin
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Swidnod missing it at the moment .. but looks like reading/ oxford is getting a bit .. :( if the low moves south west we'll get some soon .. :(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
6-8 inches here, roads just as bad as the last flurry before xmas but nowhere near the caos. Although m4 had a lane closed both ways between 10 and 11 with exit slip closed both ways at jcn 10, 329m due to an incident. This was the exact same place that ground Reading and the m4 to a halt last time(21 dec.)
Roads are traffic free compared to the last grid lock. People have learned and not been cought out as badly.
if it carries on like this there will be getting on for 1.5ft by morning.
Wheres me snowboard. Weeeeee. ;D
You are kidding !!
You saw what happens with a couple of centimeters of snow - the country grinds to a halt.
Imagine what 1.5 ft will do - everyone in reading will have regressed to caveman behaviour ( EDIT: i mean dressed in animal skins armed with bows & arrows)
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Snowing here at the mo, but only about 2" and just steady light flakes.
Rarely get it bad here as we're less than half a mile from the sea. Different story a mile or so inland though.
We're expecting clear skies for the rest of the night with Wednesday staying around -2c, and then a bit more snow.
Tomorrows busy "day off" should be somewhat interesting. ::)
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The English riviera. :y ;D ;D ::)
It'll be with you soon, Albs. ;)
Look at the radar...click the animation and you'll see a very good anticlockwise rotation of precipitation around the centre of the low. About another hour or so, old bean. Mark my words! :y I've just modified this: looking at the radar, it should be snowing in Essex by now. You need to open the curtains!!!
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/radar/index.html
My concern is whether the low sticks around for long. If it does, we'll get plenty of the white stuff. :o
Yep,its snowing now. :y :( :(
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Swidnod missing it at the moment .. but looks like reading/ oxford is getting a bit .. :( if the low moves south west we'll get some soon .. :(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
6-8 inches here, roads just as bad as the last flurry before xmas but nowhere near the caos. Although m4 had a lane closed both ways between 10 and 11 with exit slip closed both ways at jcn 10, 329m due to an incident. This was the exact same place that ground Reading and the m4 to a halt last time(21 dec.)
Roads are traffic free compared to the last grid lock. People have learned and not been cought out as badly.
if it carries on like this there will be getting on for 1.5ft by morning.
Wheres me snowboard. Weeeeee. ;D
You are kidding !!
You saw what happens with a couple of centimeters of snow - the country grinds to a halt.
Imagine what 1.5 ft will do - everyone in reading will have regressed to caveman behaviour ( EDIT: i mean dressed in animal skins armed with bows & arrows)
oh dont worry, most of the Reading population regressed into the missing link long ago. Plus i become imortal with a full face crash helmet on. Thier spears and arrows just bounce off me now, i'm used to it.
They do hunt in packs though, apparently there was panic buying ar Asda today. :-/
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I had loads of fun last night......A deserted car park and a miggy and lots of SNOW!!! Plenty of sideways action i even had a go at writing my colleagues name in the snow.... ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D 8-) Hope sainsburys garage is open in an hour....I am in needings of petrol now.... ::) :-X
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Well my neighber (single - early 50's) has kept both (am still housebound since my trip into hospital) of our drives free of snow for the last 2/3 weeks. She set off to work as usual yesterday morning, took her a hour to get to the next village going the flat way round rather than the short way which all down hill ( I presume she did that at least) then tuened round and came home as her destination she had planned to get to would have been impoossible.
Today she is out there again, she slowly managed to get her car off the inclined drive and has gone down the road. So it will be an indication of how bad the roads are if she returns or not.
Have only lived here 6 months, I couldnt have wished for a better neighber and so indepent as well. Bless her. :-*
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So it will be an indication of how bad the roads are if she returns or not. .......
It seems rather an extreme method of seeing if the roads are clear!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Only 6" this morning, Much better than the threatened 15". But Still coming down, so won't be playing golf this morning after all. ;D ;D ;D
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So it will be an indication of how bad the roads are if she returns or not. .......
It seems rather an extreme method of seeing if the roads are clear!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
What, a woman test pilot, nowt wrong with that. ::) :-X :y :y
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about a foot of snow here now. Plus 2degrees at the moment so a slight thaw but not enough to make any odds before it freezes tonight.
Not actually snowing at the momment.
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Swidnod missing it at the moment .. but looks like reading/ oxford is getting a bit .. :( if the low moves south west we'll get some soon .. :(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
6-8 inches here, roads just as bad as the last flurry before xmas but nowhere near the caos. Although m4 had a lane closed both ways between 10 and 11 with exit slip closed both ways at jcn 10, 329m due to an incident. This was the exact same place that ground Reading and the m4 to a halt last time(21 dec.)
Roads are traffic free compared to the last grid lock. People have learned and not been cought out as badly.
if it carries on like this there will be getting on for 1.5ft by morning.
Wheres me snowboard. Weeeeee. ;D
Ive just driven to reading from sunbury for uni. Only to find that none of my lecturers were in. I think the council forgot to grit the A329M as it was snowed over...made it intresting though. On the 329m heading back towards the M4 i saw a silver VX220 in the verge all a bit smashed up :(
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snowing steadily, slightly heavily.... on top of the stuff we already got..... and our road aint been gritted, or plough'ed
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Just had the nurse out to me, she had to park at the end of the road, and has told me none of the roads have been gritted at all between the local villages. The neighber hasnt returned so at least the women are out braving the weather and the roads.
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Swidnod missing it at the moment .. but looks like reading/ oxford is getting a bit .. :( if the low moves south west we'll get some soon .. :(
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
6-8 inches here, roads just as bad as the last flurry before xmas but nowhere near the caos. Although m4 had a lane closed both ways between 10 and 11 with exit slip closed both ways at jcn 10, 329m due to an incident. This was the exact same place that ground Reading and the m4 to a halt last time(21 dec.ooh thanks thats gandy info)
Roads are traffic free compared to the last grid lock. People have learned and not been cought out as badly.
if it carries on like this there will be getting on for 1.5ft by morning.
Wheres me snowboard. Weeeeee. ;D
Ive just driven to reading from sunbury for uni. Only to find that none of my lecturers were in. I think the council forgot to grit the A329M as it was snowed over...made it intresting though. On the 329m heading back towards the M4 i saw a silver VX220 in the verge all a bit smashed up :(
thanks for posting, thats handy info. I think problem localy is getting out of your own road and any hills.
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Listening to the news reports today it would seem that a large part of the country has ground to a halt. If in WW2 Hitler had mastered dropping large quantitys of snow instead of bombs on Blighty the Germans would have wupped our arses by 1940!
Back then people would have just carried on as normal, its the media playing it all out of proportion.
I don't think you can blame the media for once, though I agree it would be very nice to. They don't make the decisions to close the schools. They don't block the A14. They don't fail to send the gritting crews down my road. And they don't run out of salt for the roads. :)
i think the media is completely to blame... people hav been panic buying as if its gonna turn into the film "The Day After Tomorrow"
on radio 1's news they said not to drive unless its a life or death situation.... what a load of bull, snow aint the issue, its the ice... had it froze the wet ground here last night then snowed on it thats the big issue there
anywho, im jibbing on now, back to doing bugger all at work i guess
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Listening to the news reports today it would seem that a large part of the country has ground to a halt. If in WW2 Hitler had mastered dropping large quantitys of snow instead of bombs on Blighty the Germans would have wupped our arses by 1940!
Hitler hat nur Schneebälle! -(already fetching snow shoes) ::)