The Dogmother Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 -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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Just started snowing again here, we are forecast another 5cm or so this afternoon. The roads are lethal, despite the Highways Agency assurances on local radio this morning the road outside our house which is a main A road has an inch thick layer of sheet ice on it and has not been gritted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Snowing again - pretty heavily too I have had to summon the daughters back home,for fear of the village being impassable again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Snowing heavily in Abingdon too - go home, Claret, as it's sure to be on its way to you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Snowing like mad again here now (thanks Tricia ) 3 people from work have gone home, but I have just a 5 min walk across the park to get back, so not too worried, although I'd much rather be at home. Apparently this lot had dumped 4" on south wales this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Easing off here now - I reckon we have had an extra inch or so. That on top of the compacted stuff on the road outside my house has made it fun...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Easing off here now - I reckon we have had an extra inch or so.That on top of the compacted stuff on the road outside my house has made it fun...... Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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 (he is my OH ) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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! And we're due for more tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I think it's just arrived here Chelsea! we're knocking off at 4pm 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grracee Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Got into work OK on the train this morning, but it was bitterly cold (about minus 10 to 12) with freezing fog 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadietoo Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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?! No good gritting now is it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 We have got it too 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. I hope that all of you who are out and about get home safely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 It's snowing hard again here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I've just had to crawl under the cube to persuade 3 ex-bats they didn't want to sleep out in the snow! We've had about another inch and its freeeeezing... Glad I didn't go to Birmingham today as I gather there are no trains between Birmingham and Leamington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGirlsMum Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Hubby and girls still snowed in in Honeybourne and the roads into Cornwall are all blocked too. I want them home now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyhoundgirl Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 My parents moved to Cornwall this year. Not much chance of them making it to Hampshire for Christmas then! Might be the last year with the children truely beliving too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Just started snowing here again. Still have couple of inches on our road and pavements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 It started snowing again at 11am and hasn't really stopped all day. Another few inches here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 Nooooooooo!!!!!! Someone stop the snow I'm too scared to look out now, if you all have snow falling it might be falling here too I want to get to work tomorrow. Safe journeys everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
