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[feeutfo]

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.

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. :-/

[bertiecbx550]

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.... 8-) Hope sainsburys garage is open in an hour....I am in needings of petrol now....

[Mr Skrunts]

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. 

[Andy B]

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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!!         

[Shackeng]

Only 6" this morning, Much better than the threatened 15". But Still coming down, so won't be playing golf this morning after all.

[Mr Skrunts]

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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!!         

What, a woman test pilot, nowt wrong with that. 

[feeutfo]

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.

[oceansoul]

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.

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

[MaxV6]

snowing steadily, slightly heavily....     on top of the stuff we already got.....   and our road aint been gritted, or plough'ed

[Mr Skrunts]

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.

[feeutfo]

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.

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.

[Xplicit 2.0]

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

[Pitchfork]

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)