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[Lesley]

I've been in Minnesota, which borders Canada, in February and it is completely different.

 

.....but they do have snow every winter, so they are able to invest in snow ploughs because they will always be needed. Every Toyota pick-up in local ares will have a snow plough attachment and side roads are cleared every morning. The main roads are cleared and school buses mostly get through. They have a TV channel devoted to any school closures. Also, they have drier conditions so none of this horrible slushy stuff we get.....which then freezes .

[..lay a little egg for me]

No snow here, just rain coming sideways

[Guest]

To be fair, the mass hysteria caused by yesterdays forecasts have actually done us (well us here, certainly!) a favour. On Tuesday, the snow was heavier than expected, and the roads were a nightmare, because there wasn't sufficient gritters out overnight, meaning they were fighting an uphill battle all day to keep even the main roads clear. The village didn't see a gritter until well into the afternoon. Today, the gritters must have been working through the night, the main roads are clear, and the gritter has even managed to get down our little back road to the house, before chookiehubbie had the boot packed this morning with his emergency supplies of flasks of soup, sandwiches, wellies and spade.

 

The snow is now falling heavily here, the school is open, the road is gritted, and Shona is a happy chookiehen this morning!

[BarbaraJ]

yucky rain here

i always love snow because i work at home and the kids love it

 

another advantage parents may not be able to get here so they get a snow day too!

[Old Speckled Hen]

You are right....the country grinds to a halt.

 

I wonder how on earth they manages in places like Canada?

 

I have a friend who moved to Canada and when snow is forecast there is a car curfew on the roads. The snow ploughs work all night and in the morning ALL roads are clear.

 

My car is stuck at the bottom of the drive with its rear poking into the road because, a) it's only a two wheel drive, b) I haven't put enough grit on the drive and c) because I am a rotten driver.

 

Snow's pretty though.

[The Dogmother]

After a really cold evening, I was woken up by sleet hammering down at about 3am abnd the wind banging my bedroom window open

 

Loads of surface water here this morning too

[Mrs Webmuppet]

It's howling a gale and raining heavily outside. I could hardly stand up on our front path and had to resort to taking LMW to school in the car, she would have been drowned if we had walked. Good day to stay inside and do more things towards Christmas and cook casserole for tea ( maybe a steamed jam pudding too)

[fowlbird]

well, that's Suffolk for you, Mrs Webmuppet...

 

I hate to rub it in but down here in Berkshire it's a dry sunny and not too cold day and likely to remain so because I just ordered some winter boots...

 

Why does the weather NOT listen when i beg for snow

Phonix you are my evil friend Kerry and I claim my €10...

[earthmam1]

Well down here in Romsey on the edge of the New Forest we have had a beautiful bright but cold day We hardly ever seem to get snow OH lived in Canada on Vancover Island for a couple of years and he cant believe how unprepared we are for bad weather

[fowlbird]

of course we're unprepared - we never get really bad weather so it's always a shock on the odd occasion when it does happen.

[Valkyrie]

I remember a time in the New Forest when my grandparents were snowed in. My parents went down the M3 for part of the way (motorways were new then and still lots to be built). It was reduced to one lane and they all followed a snow plough - the snow was so deep it nearly closed above them and they were nearly driving in a tunnel (but then mum is prone to exaggeration just like me ). When they got there with their version of a Red Cross parcel, they had to dig to get to the bungalow (they lived just outside Ringwood) because the drifts were up to the windows. I wasn't allowed to go because I had to babysit for little brother, who also wanted to go but it was considered too dangerous. I don't think it has been that bad ever since.

Sadly in this country we have "the wrong type" of nearly everything - snow, leaves, rain. We seemed to manage before and then all the other countries manage so well - oops, about to bah humbug again.

Anyhoooo, sunny here today.