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Julia · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject:

I cycled in the snow today... odd experience!
We saw it snowing last night and everyone was going mad running around in it at 1am Shocked

I hope the reminants don't turn (as I fear they will) to ice tomorrow Sad

Re: salt
put over all the walkways, pavements where I stay - they forgot the bike shed... how nice of them... trying to push a bike of ice steps aint fun

iknewdavidjacobsmum · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336

Snow in the South again! We are all doomed.
Buffaloes dying in the frozen rain and of course no trains running.
It got up to 40deg C in Cape Town on Monday.

Cherskiy · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

More snow forecast for tonight - I wouldn't mind some more before the weekend but clear roads and skies on Monday since I'll be out photographing the jets again and on Tuesday. Snow makes for interesting backdrops, different to the usual green fields. More exercise for me trying to climb snowy hillsides as well! Very Happy

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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Schools never closed because of snow when I went to school! Crying or Very sad

iknewdavidjacobsmum · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336

Did once Lord E
At school in London, may have been 1970 or 71, got sent home and had tremendous fun on the way helping to dig cars out from drifts.
We weren't allowed to wear anything but regulation shoes, so I had near frostbite.

JanewayDar · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 60 Location: USA

Well its fairly warm here .....4f (it was -2) and only 16 inches of snow. But the roads are clear. The schools have been shut for the last couple of days because of the cold. The edges of Lake Erie are frozen over, but life goes on, and I have to go to work Evil or Very Mad

Hope you all get to work!

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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:47 am Post subject:

1978 was the only time my school ever shut because of the snow - and that was only because half of the teachers couldn't turn up - probably 90% of the kids managed it.

I remember passing the time in the morning engaged in a huge pupils v teachers snowball fight in the playground, until the office staff managed to contact all of the parents etc. to let them know the school couldn't function that day. Anyone who could prove their parents were at home to receive them, could leave - some of my friends and I ended up sledging on what was the dry-ski slope on Newcastle Town Moor using a Gas board sign as a sled - best sledge I ever used! Very Happy

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marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

Snow has arrived in Holland this morning where we are. It looks like a blizzard at the moment but I doubt it will settle for long as the ground is very damp from all the fog we had recently. However, it looks very pretty and I'm glad I'm inside in the warm looking out!! Very Happy

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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:44 am Post subject:

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:37 am Post subject:

It wasn't supposed to come this far North Exclamation

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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Here in leafy warwickshsire we have 5cms of fluffy snow. In 15 years I've only seen this scene (out our window) about 5 times:

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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject:

5 cms?!

That's nearly enough to cover your shoes.... Has all transportation ceased in Warwickshire and all points south? Laughing

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

It wasn't supposed to come this far North
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The snow near to the east coasts appears to come from a different weather system from that further west and south.

We had a few heavy showers earlier on, which deposited about two inches of lying snow, but it's starting to thaw.

Did you hear Sir Terry read out an email from somebody at Haltwhistle about the snow there? That's only about 40 minutes in the car from here.

Ian.

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

Snowing on my shed again!
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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Apparently they use a white salt now to grit the roads instead of the old red stuff. The Railways in the southeast and proberly across the country send out ghost trains to clear the tracks, as they have a specially designed pipes which pour out deicer onto the tracks, and they use another form of deicer to kill off meldrew when the leafs fall.

It's all going now in the Southeast and turning into slush.

John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

gfloyd · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject:

Hopefully Des is not out in the snow today.
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Cherskiy · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject:

Still not a great deal of snow, though, even on the pictures submitted to R2's website (JV page). Hard to believe in this day and age, two inches of snow brings central and southern England to a virtual halt.... Rolling Eyes

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Lord Evan Elpuss · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:39 am Post subject:

Apparently ITV news had their 'Disaster Correspondent' stood in a snow drift of 4 Inches. Confused

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Cherskiy · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject:

Someone told me at work today that BBC had a 'special programme' yesterday morning about the problems the snow was causing.... with all of the Chelsea Tractors southerners seem to drive(!), you'd think they'd cope better with what almost amounts to a severe frost.... four inches wouldn't hardly reach the alloy wheel rims! Rolling Eyes

ITV News *is* a disaster, mind you.

I wonder whether there's been a run on tyre chains in Motor World's shops 'darn sarf'! Laughing

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gfloyd · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject:

Cherskiy · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject:

Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject:

Those of us that have read Tom Holt's 'Nothing but blue skies' will recognise the theme. The demise of the British Empire is down to central heating - the same can be said of our ability to deal with any weather that is not mild, sunny and very little wind.
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From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil

Ella Sailyour · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 579 Location: Marbella, Spain

gfloyd · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Minx · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject:

We didn't get any snow here on the Costa Blanca.

But sadly I wasn't here. With unerring accuracy, (and despite consulting the long range forecast) I chose the last 3 days to go back to UK and ended up holed up in a hotel room 'cos Stansted was closed and it looked like my flight would be cancelled. But..... true Brits that they are..... the evening flight left only 20 minutes late and arrived five minutes earlier than the scheduled time. Good on yer Ryanair!

And today folks......20 degrees! Freeze on!

Cherskiy · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

Radio 5 News @ 2230 said that police had stated that driving in the West Midlands tonight was "virtually impossible" due to heavy snowfalls. Rolling Eyes

Is it six feet deep or something? Have temperatures plummetted so much that the oil is freezing in the engines? Rolling Eyes

Heaven help us if we ever actually got sustained snowfalls in this country.... all life would seemingly cease south of a line from Liverpool to Hull.
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Julia · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject:

I'm glad we don't have that much snow in the Toon but this weather is dreich! please, someone, make it go away!
It's so bloomin cold and I'm fed up of cycling in snow and hail! Sad

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iwarburton · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland

We've been pretty lucky--it was threatening to snow hard yesterday evening and then all turned to rain, which is still falling as I type.

Ian.

nod · Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558

"all life would seemingly cease south of a line from Liverpool to Hull."

You call that life ? Laughing

Cherskiy · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

SantaFefan · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

I remember 1964.........now that was snow!