It's snowing

Zero snow here in Chester if anyone cares. Although I did put on a £4.50 bet with a work colleague that it wouldn't snow, so I'm at least £4.50 up now.
 
Heavy and sticking here in Weston, Cheshire :)

Hopefully i cant get into work in Stoke in the morning!
 
Driving home was a pretty awesome experience in West Sussex earlier, never seen snow like it! It didn't settle but it was awesome. Couldn't go over 35MPH because I couldn't see where the road went, and this was on the A27! :D

Nobody was going past me because I guess I was their guiding light... Instrument lights dimmed and radio off, concentrating on keeping it between the lines... Very disorientating when there is white snow going sideways across the windscreen.

Only lasted an hour or two then stopped, and whatever settled has already been washed away. Roads are just wet now.
 
albert said:
WOW ... cracking posts about the snow. Or Winter as it's otherwise known .......
Click to expand...

Yeah, Half an inch of bloody snow and the world grinds to a halt. :mad:

I remember back in the 60's (I was about 7) waking up to find 2ft of snow in the front garden.

Of course, being the sixties, it didn't occur to my parents that the school might be closed for a "Snow Day", so I got there somehow. (About 2/3 mile away, and yes, I was expected to make my own way, and home again too)

It didn't occur to the Teachers that the School might be closed either, because they were all there too and the rest of the day went on as normal. (#)

In all seriousness, I am really quite worried about how today's "**********" (If ever there wasn't a better use of the phrase :D ) might cope with a really hard winter like 1963 (Sub-zero for over a month, 6ft snow drifts, the sea actually freezing off the east coast, week long power cuts, and so on...)

:confused:


#
To be fair, I am perhaps being a bit unfair. Back in the sixties, everything really was within walking distance. Schools, Pupils, Teachers, whatever.

The big problem today is that this is no longer the case. It actually make modern society incredibly vulnerable to bad weather in a way that simply didn't exist 50 years ago.

See also our reliance on electricity. 50 years ago most people would have had coal fires in the home (even those that had central heating) you do not need electricity for a fire, today a month at -15 with week long power cuts would kill tens of thousands of people from freezing to death, No electricity means no heating! This wasnt the case 50 years ago.
 
My next door neighbour let their kid out at half six to play in the snow. He's done nothing but shout and scream on.
 
snowing here in barnsley just woke up looked out and thought thank god i m ill and not going to work to day as im ill :)

now sat looking out the window watching the wacky races up the hill next to my house quite entertaining :p
 
Someone sprinkled the equivalent of icing sugar over the Downs in Bristol this morning. Looked very nice with a reddish tinted moon still in the morning sky as I drove across about ten minutes ago. That's the most snow I've seen in ages :p.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom