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I'd absolutely love it! Grab the snowboard and I'd be on my way to the local hill!
I remember back in the day there being 6ft snow drifts and all the roads out of town being blocked by snow.. not seen something like that for 35+ years.
Getting lots of snow these days would probably help beat covid, as the idiots wouldnt be out raving.
The Beast from the East (early 2018) was the last semi decent snow that I saw. Before that, it was the 2009/10 winter where the snow froze for over a month. That was the last time I saw snow being anywhere near 6". For anything over 6", you'll need to go back to the mid 90s / late 80s. Lots of power cuts!
I remember back in the day there being 6ft snow drifts and all the roads out of town being blocked by snow.. not seen something like that for 35+ years.
Getting lots of snow these days would probably help beat covid, as the idiots wouldnt be out raving.
Screw snow, it’s for Christmas cards only as far as I’m concerned.
Sometime circa mid seventies, I was returning from Whitehaven, (I think that it was either still Cumberland then, or had just become Cumbria), driving an empty articulated oil tanker, somewhere near Carnforth, or Lancaster at a guess, when the traffic came to a halt in driving snow, so many cars had been abandoned, that trucks willing to go on, couldn’t get through.
I was directed to walk across some fields by a copper, and fetched up in a Police Station somewhere, where I and 15-20 other truck drivers slept on the floor.
Next day I trudged back to my truck, but the diesel in the fuel lines had frozen, and it wouldn’t start.
A cop called a local truck repair place, and I had to wait freezing hours for assistance.
The mechanic had to hold burning paper to the fuel lines to get the diesel melted, and when the engine fired up, the exhaust belched thick smoke for maybe 5 minutes.
The heater took miles and miles to kick in, but was I happy when it did!