It's snowing

Diddums · 3 Feb 2015 at 06:23

A couple of centimetres here on Streatham Hill. Sadly not more, and I reckon it'll all be gone by the timw I get home

snips86x · 3 Feb 2015 at 06:44

<De@thW!sh> said:
Swindon getting a dusting... most we've had to date.

Chippenham has had some but nothing like that! Patchy!

Diddums · 3 Feb 2015 at 06:55

Diddums said:
A couple of centimetres here on Streatham Hill. Sadly not more, and I reckon it'll all be gone by the timw I get home

Conscript · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:12

A dusting in Medway, but it'll be gone in a few hours.

Michael Myers · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:14

still snowing in Woking, roads are all covered going to be fun this morning

~Mike~ · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:21

Got about a cm in Winchester.

Cosimo · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:34

A coupe of centimetres here this morning.

jonneymendoza · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:38

finally snowed in essex

PapaLazaru · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:43

Trains are all running late through Reading. Drivers have all got late snow anger. I just cycled to the station. This country. :rolleyes:

el_dazza · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:45

About an inch of snow here, didn't expect it!

TonyTurbo78 · 3 Feb 2015 at 07:52

Awoke in chandlers ford near winchester to the white stuff.

dr_volki · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:03

few centimetres here in reading and everything seems to grind to halt. :rolleyes:

DJMK4 · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:18

Not here

randal · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:18

We've had a good dosing in Camberley area, will attempt work but not rushing in just yet.

Diddums · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:20

dr_volki said:
few centimetres here in reading and everything seems to grind to halt.

I catch a bus right outside Streatham Hill station in the mornings. Anyone familiar with this road will know that there are about 15 different bus routes going past it (no exaggeration). As such, I rarely have to wait more than three minutes for a bus.

This morning, 12 minutes.

I love how this country falls apart every time there's a bit of snow.

snips86x · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:22

and you get countries like Japan, Canada which keep functioning like it's nothing. Seems ridiculous that the infrastructure just crumbles.

dodg3rman · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:26

A very light dusting here this morning , nothing to get excited about

dr_volki · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:29

Diddums said:
I catch a bus right outside Streatham Hill station in the mornings. Anyone familiar with this road will know that there are about 15 different bus routes going past it (no exaggeration). As such, I rarely have to wait more than three minutes for a bus.

This morning, 12 minutes.

I love how this country falls apart every time there's a bit of snow.

it's shocking for me. having lived in Switzerland & Germany a few centimetres is nothing.
saying that it seems people just lack common sense when they don't even clean their cars properly when it has snowed or like this morning stopping at a hill forcing everyone to drive in 1st / 2nd gear up the hill when there's still snow on the road. should've just kept on driving instead of braking to a stand still

~Mike~ · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:32

Started snowing again here, roads are fine if your sensible.

Diddums · 3 Feb 2015 at 08:37

dr_volki said:
it's shocking for me. having lived in Switzerland & Germany a few centimetres is nothing.
saying that it seems people just lack common sense when they don't even clean their cars properly when it has snowed or like this morning stopping at a hill forcing everyone to drive in 1st / 2nd gear up the hill when there's still snow on the road. should've just kept on driving instead of braking to a stand still

I grew up in Holland, I delivered pizzas in on a moped in -14 with about two feet of snow. I cycled to school in the mornings in these conditions too.

Granted there was loads of faceplanting, but we just got on with it. Buses, trains, everything just kept on running. We never ran out of salt either.

Bin men were given overtime when it snowed, they'd get hauled out of bed, chucked in a gritter and sent on their way. Good cash for them, clear roads for us. A mate of mine even became a bin man one winter for this very reason, he had a very generous Christmas.

I still can't believe we ran out of salt. It's not like the stuff goes off or anything, not expensive either. Just buy a few hundred tonnes, shove it in a warehouse and leave it there.