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The Dogmother Eggsistentialist

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-11deg here this morning at 6am, no more snow but VERY icy. Roads are terrible, but people are trying to get around, eejits are spinning on the main road past our office. I am in work this morning, but I think we're all shutting up around mid-afternoon. Am so glad as there's been no time to get anything done with all the work on and I could do with being at home.

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Blackrocksrock Effusive Egg Layer

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More snow overnight, quite a lot.

 

I don't think DD will be able to go to the Asthma clinic today :( Just hope I can get another appointment with a shorter waiting time than 6 weeks.

 

We are well stocked up with food for us and the furry and feathered family. The only thing I do not have is bottled water, we had frozen pipes for a time again on Friday evening and Saturday morning. The electricity went off yesterday and when it eventually came back on the lights were dimming for the rest of the day. We have plenty of candles and torches. The woodburner would be useful for heating simple meals on.

 

OH always tells me I am full of gloom and doom about the bad Winter weather but yesterday he said we must sit down and have a plan for next Winter :shock: He thinks that we are in for a good few Winters with this type of weather. He was talking about buying a quad bike with a snow plough attachment so we can plough the lane ourselves. A grit bin is also on his list. We are a 3 car family and I think that one of the cars should be a 4x4, OH now agrees with this. Too late for anything to be done this Winter as snow poughing quad bikes will be in use as will 4x4's.

 

 

Ali one of our neighbours across the way bought a small petrol snow blower = you just walk with it its good for about £600 so cheaper than a quad but maybe not enough!

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Still snowing here and getting deep.

 

The head coach from DD's swimming club has text me to say that training is still on tonight, in the same town I wouldn't drive to for the clinic appointment this morning. Stupid man :twisted: (he is my OH :roll: ) I can't see many parents driving their children there, I certainly will not be taking DD.

 

Having a good day despite the rotten weather. Wrapped most of the Christmas presents and DS, DD and myself have eaten lots of the Christmas Quality Street :D

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chelsea SUPER CHICKEN!!!

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Devon has been hit very hard today. I got up at 4am (couldn't sleep) and we had very heavy snow for several hours. :(

 

Now under a foot of snow, we can hardly open the back door. I can't get to work as cannot get car off drive and M5 was more or less closed this morning.

 

A foot may not seem much to many, but for Devon where it's usually mild it's rare! :shock: And we're due for more tonight. :anxious:

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The Dogmother Eggsistentialist

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I think it's just arrived here Chelsea! :? we're knocking off at 4pm :D It must be a lot colder now - the 2 foot long icicles outside my office window have stopped dripping.

 

This'll make you laugh.... the local driving test centre rents our annexe from us at work and their parking area is accessed via our side car park, which is currently under about 8" of snow. They have a contract with Mitie for them to send a truck round with a gritter attachment to grit the area and out onto the main road; young lad has just turned up in said truck and is such a bad driver that he's spinning it around in circles beside our building. MD and I have just been watching out of the window and laughing. There's absolutely no point in gritting on top of snow that deep anyway, you need to clear it and then grit! :roll:

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Charlottechicken Eggcentric Egluowner

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Got into work OK on the train this morning, but it was bitterly cold (about minus 10 to 12) with freezing fog :shock: My mum phoned to tell me a neighbour had been turfed off a broken down local train and there were now no trains running, but work refused to let anyone go early, despite the risk of being out in temperatures well below freezing, phones have to be manned till 5pm. So my team leader and I made our way home, in her car. I work flexi time so it's my own time but I've managed 7 hours in work today, so only lost 30 minutes.

 

I got dropped about half a mile from home and was covered in snow by the time I got in the house! The roads are awful, all slushy with big ruts of snow. It is still snowing now and feels warmer, only -5 or 6 now but it is very dark.

 

Sounds like it is really bad all over, reading all your comments, but Chelsea, I think a foot of snow is a lot :shock::shock:

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sadietoo Chatty Chicken

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Hurrah...Rain here on the south coast has washed most of the slushy snow away, during the course of the afternoon making it easier to get around...still trecherous on some untreated pavements though...but much better than this morning, when I had to use my Yaktrax to stay upright...it's the first time that I have used them and and they were brilliant

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chelsea SUPER CHICKEN!!!

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Started to snow very heavy here and sticking fast! Where people had made paths to walk on is already covered up within the last half hour!

 

You've got our snow heading your way to Wales, it's moving up through the Bristol channel :( . It's heavy, fast falling stuff.

 

Claret - isn't that just typical?! :lol: No good gritting now is it?? :notalk:

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chickencam SUPER CHICKEN!!!

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We have got it too :shock: A lot of the powdery snow is blowing off things and drifting too, but there are still loads of people driving along the road which has now turned white over the ice. We went for a walk to out local Co-op earlier and my OH slipped over on the main road as we crossed it going home. There have been no buses here since about 8.30 this morning but people still think that they can drive. :roll:

 

I hope that all of you who are out and about get home safely.

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Lesley Eggsistentialist

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We've had a further inch of snow and it's still snowing. I want it to go now - my son is coming home from London on Thursday by coach from Victoria :pray: He only went for a week to work for a friend and he's been there for 5 weeks now, he has no bed, no TV and now no internet connection as his friend is moving next week and has cancelled it.

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Valkyrie Cocka-doodle-loopy

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Dopey Dora is still in Bluewater - I have told her to come home pronto as we have lightning and snow - OK still not mega snow, but it's settling and getting a little deeper each time. I suppose we had about a quarter of an inch this morning/afternoon, then a little more, then it started to melt and now we have half an inch to an inch. Don't really want it any deeper, OK it can stop now. I said STOP! Blinking snow, I get the same reaction as when I talk to the children. :roll:

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