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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Twinfan on January 05, 2010, 09:04:22 AM
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Can't get to work, remote log-in servers are overloaded, Mrs Twinfan's school is shut and we have around 6 inches of snow making everything look pretty :)
I guess I just drink coffee and play guitar all day?
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Looks like all of that snow is on it's way South! It took me 10.5 hours to drive 18 miles just before Christmas - I really don't want to have to go through that again!!!
Playing guitar is a good thing to do on a snow day.
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Can't get to work, remote log-in servers are overloaded, Mrs Twinfan's school is shut and we have around 6 inches of snow making everything look pretty :)
I guess I just drink coffee and play guitar all day?
You know I was born in the black forest, Germany, and what did you say, 6 inches of snow? That's ridiculous - where I come from we wouldn't even have noticed anything below 15 inches :lol:
Just kiddin.
Hey some pics would be nice!
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It's OK in the areas who have it every year, they can prepare for it and spend money to be ready.
It rarely happens here, so we're never prepared!
I'll get some pics....
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Working from home has its disadvantages sometimes...
Hunter, the UK doesn't make it a legal obligation to have winter tyres, unlike countries that have regular snowfall in the winters. Hence we panic and the whole world ends. Everyone buys milk and bread so that they don't starve to death, and try avoid being eaten by wolves, or something.
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Here's my back garden:
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/junkacct/Manchester_snow.jpg)
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I managed to make it in to Manchester on the train. Looking out my office window laughing at the BMW drivers as their back wheels try to overtake their front ones or as they just get stuck!
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Is this the first snow you've had in Manchester guys, or did you get it in December too?
We had a fair bit in the South East the week before Christmas, and it snowed on New Year's Eve in Essex. The really unusual thing is how cold it's been - we rarely get temperatures less than 5 degrees in London, never mind sub-zero!
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We had it before Xmas, but there's much more now. The old stuff had only just cleared :lol:
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I'm on holiday this week.
I have a behemoth of a cold and the dog has hurt his leg.
I'm staying in with a hat on
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Looking forward to London coming to a complete standstill again later in the week...
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Here's my back garden:
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/junkacct/Manchester_snow.jpg)
Three trees ! Alder , Maple and Korina ? :)
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We just got 18 inches of snow/ ice here and still had to go to class! My town is crazy.
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I'm glad I took this week off.
The pre-christmas snow was terrible, not because there was lots of it but because we were completely unprepared. Here in the South East, the transport infrastucture already runs >90% capacity, so it just takes the gritters to be a bit slow getting out & the roads get clogged up with solid traffic & nobody can go anywhere (which is basically what happened).
It's very cold here but there's a clear blue sky. I reckon the forecast is bollox - just the met office covering their arses after last time :) I put money on us not getting any more snow....
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Three trees ! Alder , Maple and Korina ? :)
Ha ha! Close, but I'd have Ash in place of Alder ;)
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We only have about 1-2cm here, it was much thicker a couple of weeks ago.
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im moving house in london in 2 days. i really don't wanna have an issue. :(
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Three trees ! Alder , Maple and Korina ? :)
Ha ha! Close, but I'd have Ash in place of Alder ;)
what no birch! how dare you!!!
speaking of snow, according to folk on facebook my local council has apparently run out of salt and all the buses are cancelled
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Let's hope that Basingstoke does not make the news again this week 'cos of the snow... Everything on the TV was true and worse - I had to walk home (4 miles) and it was still at least 3 hours faster than anything on 4 wheels was going. Sky here is slowly getting greyer and greyer.....
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Let's hope that Basingstoke does not make the news again this week 'cos of the snow... Everything on the TV was true and worse - I had to walk home (4 miles) and it was still at least 3 hours faster than anything on 4 wheels was going. Sky here is slowly getting greyer and greyer.....
Noooooo! I'm travelling back to Basingstoke later today. It was extremely bad last time, hoping it will be better this time!
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Let's hope that Basingstoke does not make the news again this week 'cos of the snow... Everything on the TV was true and worse - I had to walk home (4 miles) and it was still at least 3 hours faster than anything on 4 wheels was going. Sky here is slowly getting greyer and greyer.....
Noooooo! I'm travelling back to Basingstoke later today. It was extremely bad last time, hoping it will be better this time!
Yeah, my wife abandonned her car on the A340 & walked home after being stuck in the car for 5 hours (with two toddlers who were less than impressed by the whole experience!). Guess who had to walk back & get it the next day? :roll:
I laughed when I went into Sainsbury's in Kempshot earlier today - the shelves had literally been EMPTIED :lol:
However, I stand by my earlier prediction that this is just the Met Office over-compensating. I bet we don't get any...
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I bet we don't get any...
OK, perhaps I was talking bollox. It's started coming down properly now with thick heavy flakes & is sticking...
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6 inches.. and the world grinds to a halt?
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. that's ridiculous.
we used to call that a nice winter, now everyone is shouting apocalypse.
but a good layer of snow is nice.. cos everyone is too afraid to go out and you can drift at 15mph :D
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6 inches.. and the world grinds to a halt?
AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.. that's ridiculous.
It's totally ridiculous, but the problem is we're never prepared for it.
Many parts of the UK only get a tiny bit of snow, maybe 1 or 2 days a year. The local councils have stocks of rock salt for gritting the roads, but they're such penny-pinchers they don't use it unless they're 100% certain it's going to snow. Then of course it does snow and it's already too late.
That's the roads, and as for the trains..... they just don't seem to be able to handle it at all. :|
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Antag - are you are North Hampshire person too then? I walked up the A340, past the hospital and it was hilarious to see people trying to drive in the snow who had no idea what to do. Most of them were trying the 'if the wheels are spinning then apply lots more accelerator' tactic. I blame Top Gear.....
One of my neighbours (who was going nowhere in a hurry) got out of his car to talk to me, only to see it slowly move off down the hill without him behind the wheel. Just got back in time to stop it before it hit the car in front!
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I expect I shall have chaos tomorrow in Sussex/Surrey.I had a nightmare journey home in the week before Christmas and like some have said, I do not want a repeat of that. My company would expect you in even if you were dead( in which case you'd get a job in accounts) so whatever it does tomorrow, I shall be expected in.
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The forecast snow in London from sometime tonight until tomorrow afternoon. I do't fancy trying to drive a truck around in it as its pretty uncontrollable. The thing is I'm in a new firm and the boss will make you 'just get on with it' regardless of the risks. Other firms I've worked for wouldn't risk it.
I hate this time of year!
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we had a wee tiny it last night, but not much. We had more around christmas week, still was only maybe 2 inches or so, but we're not used to it... :lol:
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I'm in Bristol and we've been forecast 10cm overnight with -6 temperatures. I've been out to the supermarket and have the following emergency rations:
12 large bottles Heineken
One case (24 bottles) of Bitburger
Twenty Lucky Strike
A roast chicken
What with that and the Nirvana Live at Reading, Them Crooked Vultures and ZZ Top Double Down Christmas presents to enjoy, should be a good 24 hours. Can't be going out in ankle-deep snow. Too risky.
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Still none on my part of South Essex yet - was predicted at 6pm, it's now 8:30.
I'll bet it's a white out by morning...
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DAMN BURGER!!!!!
I'm freaking melting into sweat in this hellish-hot summer...
And NOBODY turns off the oven in the sky :cry:
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We have a lot of it now. I was at a rehearsal tonight and oblivious to the weather until someone looked out and saw about 6 inches of snow. I have had an interesting drive back down some country lanes.The local morons have been out making huge snowballs and blocking roads with them. I think I may have to stay at home tomorrow judging by the state of the roads.
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I have just heard that our bass player got about 4 miles out of town before getting stranded on the A24 heading south to Worthing. He was going to turn around to try to get to the Drummers house to stay the night but the road has been closed apparently. Sod his luck!
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It's coming down pretty heavily here, now.
Amazing how a bit of falling snow can make a manky London street full of parked cars look beautiful!
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It's coming down pretty heavily here, now.
Amazing how a bit of falling snow can make a manky London street full of parked cars look beautiful!
white pride?
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It's coming down pretty heavily here, now.
Amazing how a bit of falling snow can make a manky London street full of parked cars look beautiful!
white pride?
Don't play the race card! :wink:
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It's coming down pretty heavily here, now.
Amazing how a bit of falling snow can make a manky London street full of parked cars look beautiful!
white pride?
Don't play the race card! :wink:
nah i aint crosses them lines
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I just heard that my bandmates had various problems getting home from rehearsal-One got home at 3.30-5.5 hours to do about 15 miles!The others got in early- 11.30 and 12.45. I was the luckiest it seems- took me 15 minutes.
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Working from home today. Quite a bit of snow in Basingstoke, waited for a bus for about 40 mins. Nothing turned up so gave up and decided to dial in to my meetings from home.
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Im snowed in (Surrey/Kent border), road are really bad, and all the trains have been cancelled... looks like a day of guitar playing for me! :)
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From the news it sounded like Hampshire had just about the worst of it?
It's not too bad at all in central London, but I almost decided not to go in to work because the cold/cough I had before Christmas has come back with a vengeance. :(
I'm here now though, just hope it doesn't get worse during the day....
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It's not too bad at all in central London, but I almost decided not to go in to work because the cold/cough I had before Christmas has come back with a vengeance. :(
One of my colleagues felt he should go in even though he was ill - he was concerned that it might look like he was skiving off due to the weather.
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We had a power cut as well - from around 2 a.m. until 10 this morning - I am lurking from home and missus and kids have gone out sledging
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Still snowing...
(http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/lucky_luke61/IMG_1161.jpg)
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It's not too bad at all in central London, but I almost decided not to go in to work because the cold/cough I had before Christmas has come back with a vengeance. :(
One of my colleagues felt he should go in even though he was ill - he was concerned that it might look like he was skiving off due to the weather.
It's not looking so good now - snowing steadily and it's settling, which means it'll be much worse outside the centre. They'll be pulling buses and trains out of service as we speak. Wish I hadn't bothered coming in....
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I had to get to Heathrow from outside of Leeds yesterday. I figured that I should set off a bit earlier, but I hadn't counted on the other drivers or the lack of ploughing on the M1. I'm used to driving in snow because I live around New York and used to go skiing in Vermont a lot. However I would put a full set of snow tyres on the car. I had a Peugot 207 diesel rental with about 7,000 miles on it which I had driven up from London and then done the round trip in it already this trip. I got stuck in traffic before I got to the M1, but by using the fast lane which had no ruts down to the tarmac in it, I was able to get around that. The M1 was very dodgy and I hit a whiteout around Mansfield. However driving through the long road widening 50 zone, the snow petered out (around Trowel services). By this time it was around 10:30 or so (3 hours on the road already), I dropped the car off at Heathrow at 12:30. It took 5 hours, but I have to say that there were so many people who should not have been out on the road, they really didn't know how to dirve in snow and they were a danger to other people. Sticking really close behind the car in front, even when you are only crawling, is not a good move. Also doing 10 mph on a motorway where you are driving in 2-3 in of slush but heading uphill really doesn't help. I made my plane and was subjected to all the extra tests which the asshole with the underpants bomb caused, so the flight was delayed and then lots more security back in Newark. As we were leaving the gate there were snowflakes falling at Heathrow. Only one carry on allowed too, so it was my new WezV fretless EB0 - I declared it and the guy at immigration asked me what a bass was! The best news was no customs duty at all. Anyway, today I'm back at work and catching up on emails.
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You know I was born in the black forest, Germany, and what did you say, 6 inches of snow? That's ridiculous - where I come from we wouldn't even have noticed anything below 15 inches :lol:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8449906.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8449906.stm)
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:lol:
Nice work Martin!
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The roads here seem to be ok, I'm back to uni tomorrow so hopefully they stay clear.. went to drop some stuff off today and people seem to have no idea how to drive in this weather. Even on the gritted dual carriageways, people were crawling along at 30.. couldn't overtake because only one lane was gritted and being clogged up by people being overly/annoyingly cautious!
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Ok, you're young and in university have not been driving long I guess.
So would you prefer it if they were driving at breakneck speed, hitting some black ice, losing control of their cars and crashing into you, causing your head to bang into your drivers window and door post as the impact causes the car to deform and the door post to move forward into the passenger compartment? Obviously you'd hear your skull bones cracking as your head impacted on the that door pillar, splitting you right eye and pushing your right cheekbone into your mouth. Which in turn results in the severing off of a substantial piece of your tongue before you teeth shatter whilst the rest of your jaw bone is driven down into your neck severing one of your arteries. If you were lucky you would then bleed to death and some copper has to turn up to your parents and tell them that little Tom has had a fatal accident. That would be a fun day for them.
Look on the bright side you might prefer your parents having to look at you lying on that bed with your permanent brain damage caused by the rapid acceleration and deceleration to your brain from the head trauma.
Or would you rather they were cautious?
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^ +1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8449906.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8449906.stm)
+1, it's not that germany is better able to cope with snow, it's that it's more used to the amount which would cripple us. When it gets hit with similarly extreme weather (compared to its usual conditions) as we're getting, it also grinds to a halt.
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It is the black ice that is the danger-by its very nature you don't see it but you sure as hell know it when you are on it-hence erring on the side of caution when you have a few years of driving under your belt. I'd rather be late than "late".
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i fell on my arse yesterday and cracked my head and back. Nothing serious but i am now officially fed up of the snow.
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i fell on my arse yesterday and cracked my head and back. Nothing serious but i am now officially fed up of the snow.
It looks like it's made your head swell a bit, but at least you're still smiling...
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I see your point, shobet.. however 30 is far too slow on those roads imo, they're heavily used and have been properly gritted down one lane.. 50 is fine on them, I don't drive like an idiot especially after having a bit of a crash a few years ago.
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Tom, I found a spot of black ice at 40, I was going down the road sideways, from one way to the other (didn't correct fast enough) and ended up screwing my windscreen.
The main road that I live on has had a car turn around and flip OVER (not through) the hedge and fence landing in the field in front of my house.
New years day had an air ambulance land in a field to take someone who went into a tree sideways.
And a Jeep hit the front of a lorry sideways.
Getting somewhere late is better than not getting there at all
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Ouch, that does sound bad. Suspect I may be the stupid one then, however the road is clear and seems to be one of the few thats been well gritted, so 30 seems a bit extreme and very frustrating when you have stuff to do! The Northants/Leicester area isn't very bad compared to some places by the looks of things, think we've got quite lucky.
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I don't think I am too far from you in the grand scheme of things. I live on 3 county borders, and the difference is astounding though.
I had to go and get some oil today, and someone at the shop said:
"get home, its better to be snowed in than snowed out"
I quite like that :D