Winter 2017/2018 - Thread

robfosters · 3 Mar 2018 at 12:41

5punk3monk3y said:
What job do you have?

Sounds like a professional snowman.

Lmg80 · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:09

Gutted it's all over, want it to keep snowing and snowing, followed by the occasional flurry

Lmg80 · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:13

Tinders said:
It’s prob the condensate trap that’s frozen.

This was the case in our situation given our boiler is in the roof, just disconnected it from the boiler and drained the water into a bucket, problem solved.

CaptainRAVE · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:15

Melting quickly here. Nothing on the road, but of course people are crawling along as if there is some imaginary snow on the gritted roads.

Lmg80 · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:16

CaptainRAVE said:
Melting quickly here. Nothing on the road, but of course people are crawling along as if there is some imaginary snow on the gritted roads.

Never heard of ice

XeNoN89 · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:26

First day above freezing since Monday here, everything has melted already, just the odd but of slush still surviving but it will be gone soon.

Abraxaz1 · 3 Mar 2018 at 13:38

5punk3monk3y said:
What job do you have?

I'm a e and I technician for the national grid gas transmission.

One of the many tracks I need to go down. This one dips into a valley where the snow was up to my waist...

Kerplunk · 3 Mar 2018 at 14:37

Melting very quickly here

trigg_27 · 3 Mar 2018 at 14:41

A couple of pictures from my walk this afternoon

GTAMADDOG · 3 Mar 2018 at 15:02

Had a decent snow clearing operation going this morning on our steep dead end road. Went out and started clearing the pavement in front of the drive and the road in front of the house, was then joined in quick succession by four other blokes who came out with their shovels, we all helped clear each others driveway entrances and then set about clearing a track down the road itself so now there is a solid tarmac track going up and down the road (only single track, but it's a quiet road despite the number of houses anyway). Also cleared the drive and steps to the house next door where an elderly couple live, they easily had about a foot of snow on their drive, I don't think they even realised it had all been cleared until about an hour later. Certainly helps that you only have to remove snow down to the last few mm as it seems to thaw quite quickly once the majority has been removed.

Still going to give it another day or two before I take my car out though.

Blackjack Davy · 3 Mar 2018 at 16:33

What little snow there was went overnight. Chucking it down with rain at the moment. A303 is still blocked both directions they said on the radio this afternoon. Yikes.

Abraxaz1 · 3 Mar 2018 at 17:33

Still out of the house...

Any one near neath that can drop off some food I'm bloody starving

Boycey0211 · 3 Mar 2018 at 21:31

I spoke too soon, 24 hours later the coop has run out of most of perishables.

Most of the snow has gone and yet people still cant cope lol

PiKe · 3 Mar 2018 at 21:37

Boycey0211 said:
I spoke too soon, 24 hours later the coop has run out of most of perishables.

Most of the snow has gone and yet people still cant cope lol

More likely deliveries can't get through, our local ASDA has no milk whatsoever, but we had our snow on weds and it's all but gone now.

Boycey0211 · 3 Mar 2018 at 22:39

PiKe said:
More likely deliveries can't get through, our local ASDA has no milk whatsoever, but we had our snow on weds and it's all but gone now.

Roads have been fine since thursday evening here, was only cut off for around 24 hours. From what I saw yesterday it seemed to be pensioners clearing it out just incase.

Andrew_McP · 3 Mar 2018 at 22:40

Good news just now. Looks like we'll soon burst the bubble of bad weather.

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Boycey0211 · 3 Mar 2018 at 22:44

Lopéz · 3 Mar 2018 at 22:46

Still snowing lightly here in Leicestershire.

PiKe · 3 Mar 2018 at 22:56

Boycey0211 said:
Roads have been fine since thursday evening here, was only cut off for around 24 hours. From what I saw yesterday it seemed to be pensioners clearing it out just incase.

A farmer had to dump 200 gallons of milk because the tanker couldn't get to the farm, depends where the milk comes from! Local farmers milk still has to go to god-knows-where to be processed.

Nick1881 · 3 Mar 2018 at 23:06

It's snowing again here, just when I thought it was all going.

There's also a dead and now frozen Pheasant on the drive, it flew into the window earlier, never had that happen before, wouldn't expect it in such a built up area.

Anyone want it? lol