Winter 2022/23 - It's too cold :(

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Maybe time for kids safety videos like the 70/80s with the like of Rolf Harris

There's plenty on youtube already.

 

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It's not just about depth though is it? But submerged objects, you could get caught up in reeds etc and stuck.

Temperature of the water, near by objects, current health conditions, thinness of the ice.

 

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Clothes too. Fell into a pond as a kid and got pulled down by my wellies. Luckily it was shallow enough that I could keep my head above water and clamber into the shallower bit to drag myself out. Luckily it was also one summers evening, so the water wasn’t too cold.

Try over flowing in a pair of waders. You feel like a pretty little dolphin.

Also - under the ice if there's sludge/mud in the water you will also struggle to pull your feet out the compound. I was doing a netting of a fishery in Feb this year with 2 foot of sludge and pulling yourself out of that while been in water is like quick sand. You go down and down until you can't pull yourself out any longer.

Some lakes have a sludge bottom. You fall in you not getting out.

 

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Walking on ice in waders with a depth stick sounds a lot like messing around.

nah twas not.

 

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Ice safety ... he must be too young to recollect ice scene from The Omen, that makes an impression as a youngster.

1978, wasn't even born.

 

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The signs and deaths at quarries and lakes in the Summer don't put people off going for a drown

At least it's a warning.

 

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Oh yeah, people go on about Titanic, Titanic... Let me tell you something about the Titanic, people forget, people forget that on the Titanic's maiden voyage there were over 1000 miles of uneventful, very pleasurable cruising before it hit the iceberg!

It still hit the iceburg though. "ICEBURRRG RIGHT AHEAAAAD".

 

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If you are up to your waist in freezing water and the only thing to try and get purchase on to pull yourself out with is wet slippery ice all around you, then sorry but you are not getting out and you are getting weaker with cold by the second.

It's doable. I've done it before.

 

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Yet you can’t spell iceberg

That was intentional. Watch out I'll be watching every post you post from now on to pick up a spelling mistake then I will inform the spelling police to correct you.

 

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I am the spelling police

Yor not

 

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It’ll be an interesting few hours when the rain falls onto all this ice.

Ice shrink. Get your skates on.

 

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It’s hot now, 10 degrees. I’m getting a sun tan here lol

Everyone move over to the “it’s too hot” thread. All aboard chooo chooo.

 

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Back to typical December/Xmas weather now. 12c, grey skies, showers and wind. My wallet prefers it.

All you need is a rain jacket and you good lol no heating on required.

 

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Can’t believe I’m warm enough in a t shirt today.

Wrong thread.

 

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It's got to the point where it costs what it costs. Only so much you can do realistically.

50 blankets and curl up tight. Hibernate like a squirrel.

 

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12 degrees today, oof get the suncream out.

 

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Sky News had to bring out a news story that explained why it's cold when we have climate change...

They just been silly so people tune in. This is what all TV is about.

 

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It is what it is.

Not cold enough but better than this, shorts and t shirt weather today..

Shorts and T-shirts next week.

YOLO

 

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Usually shorts all year, but last week I needed a coat.

It just any coat - a YOLO coat.

 

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Won’t be long before it’s summer.