Author Topic: It's snowing! (Read 639415 times)

mcshroom · « **Reply #3625 on:** 21 January, 2013, 11:39:35 am »

I've just looked up our local schools and the Primary (on the hill) is open but West Lakes 'Academy' just down the road and not on the hill is shut to all except exam students?

I rode passed WLA this morning and the roads were completely gritted and clear of snow

numbnuts · « **Reply #3626 on:** 21 January, 2013, 11:46:15 am »

Here in the sunny south

we have a beautiful day 5.8c

tiermat · « **Reply #3627 on:** 21 January, 2013, 11:51:21 am »

A quick summary of the weather here.

It snows
Then it stops
Snow melts, a bit
Then it snows again.
Repeat ad nauseum.

Tomorrow will be interesting, driving wise if the temp drops overnight.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #3628 on:** 21 January, 2013, 11:59:36 am »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 21 January, 2013, 11:34:33 am

Every school in Kirklees is shut so it must be badder than the baddest snow ever.

My mum says it's nowhere near the baddest snow ever and she can't understand why there's chaos this year. Also, she just walked into Milnsbridge and was overtaken by a man on skis.

No sign of us getting sent home from work, boo hiss.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3629 on:** 21 January, 2013, 12:02:16 pm »

Our busy hill is clear while the little hill that runs parallel to it was occupied by sledgers yesterday.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #3630 on:** 21 January, 2013, 12:31:23 pm »

Quote from: hellymedic on 20 January, 2013, 11:34:19 pm

The diesel in the removal van 'froze' into a jelly.

I drove to England with a class of Swedish mature students in 1991. We were in a minibus & saw an by one of the big petrolco's boasting that their diesel was guaranteed to be useable at -15C. The Swedes had a chuckle, as their diesel had to work at <-30C...

I laughed when I first saw them using these

to get around in the north, but they were really useful.

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #3631 on:** 21 January, 2013, 01:49:41 pm »

It's snowing quite a bit here.

In Val d'Isere though, so no apocalypse required. Somebody just drove a Porsche past the window - keen.

Quint · « **Reply #3632 on:** 21 January, 2013, 04:33:40 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 20 January, 2013, 10:02:19 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01q9d86/Winterwatch_1963_The_Big_Freeze/ Before you start complaining about snow, have a look at what we had to put up with in 1963...

Ah 1963, North Wales on a motor bike and side car, the joys of running my hands under a cold tap and feeling they were burning, in flames, one feels truly alive, pain like that would have woken the dead.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #3633 on:** 21 January, 2013, 04:38:02 pm »

Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared! The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it

tiermat · « **Reply #3634 on:** 21 January, 2013, 04:40:12 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2013, 04:38:02 pm

Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared! The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it

They could do with heading north a bit! ours are still slippy and messy!

Having said that in 2009 and 2010 when we had all that snow (most of which we missed in 2010 due to being elsewhere), they broke out the quad bike path clearer, which I thought was really cool. Basically a small snow plough and gritter mounted on a quad bike, one man can clear loads of paths in no time.

Quint · « **Reply #3635 on:** 21 January, 2013, 05:21:13 pm »

Fabulous bit of kit, the man hours it must save leaves no excuse for dodgy paths/streets, mind there are plenty in the prisons could be chained and used to deal with this but ah, they have rights which unfortunately they didn't realise others they robbed etc had.

petes46 · « **Reply #3636 on:** 21 January, 2013, 05:57:27 pm »

Coming home today after the weekend away, most of the roads I was on had been ploughed and gritted. The one that wasn't seemed to have been scraped clear of snow; one of the local farmers using a rough terrain lift with a bucket on the telescopic boom seemed most likely.

So I wasn't surprised when I cam up behind it. Trouble was, it wasn't on the road but at 45^o down in a ditch!

The driver was still in his cab and on the phone, presumably to get himself rescued.

Shortly after, I encountered a tractor so perhaps he wasn't going to have to wait too long! Not sure how he was going to explain it though!

Kim · « **Reply #3637 on:** 21 January, 2013, 06:02:43 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2013, 04:38:02 pm

Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared! The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it

No such thing, doesn't exist. And even if it did, we couldn't afford one anyway. </BCC>

Regulator · « **Reply #3638 on:** 21 January, 2013, 06:14:44 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 21 January, 2013, 06:02:43 pm

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2013, 04:38:02 pm
Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared! The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it

No such thing, doesn't exist. And even if it did, we couldn't afford one anyway. </BCC>

Cambridge has one - they got it two years ago. It is parked up, awaiting the safety/operating protocols to be signed off...

mcshroom · « **Reply #3639 on:** 21 January, 2013, 06:19:58 pm »

We had that on site in 2010. There were five gritters parked up and ready to go - but no signed off contract with the contractor who owned them for the gritters to be used

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #3640 on:** 21 January, 2013, 07:29:37 pm »

It hasn't stopped snowing all day but it's only just started to stick.

TimO · « **Reply #3641 on:** 21 January, 2013, 08:33:17 pm »

Quote from: tiermat on 21 January, 2013, 04:40:12 pm

... Basically a small snow plough and gritter mounted on a quad bike, one man can clear loads of paths in no time.

A few years ago, driving through Wandsworth, there was a small gritter mounted on a trailer being pulled along by a quad bike on the pavements around the one-way system. I haven't seen it since, and no one anywhere that I cycle these days seems to have ever heard of one.

mcshroom · « **Reply #3642 on:** 21 January, 2013, 09:09:30 pm »

There's a small gritter trailer that is towed around the car park at one of the local retail parks. It's pulled by a 4x4 in the car park, but it's narrow enough that it would fit down a cycle path if you hooked it up to a quad.

phantasmagoriana · « **Reply #3643 on:** 21 January, 2013, 09:20:28 pm »

Quote from: CrinklyLion on 21 January, 2013, 04:38:02 pm

Some of the footpaths and cyclepaths on the way to school had been cleared! The council have a dinky pavement snowplough, and look to have been using it

I saw it in action this morning.

hellymedic · « **Reply #3644 on:** 22 January, 2013, 12:43:59 am »

My sister-in-law emailed me a picture of my brother and his four-year old daughter in the snow.
They were standing in front of the snow penguin he, and 14 neighbours had taken 4 hours to build.
It's about nine feet tall and three feet wide.
As Hendon is home to many strictly orthodox Jews, Pingu wears a skullcap...

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #3645 on:** 22 January, 2013, 07:32:21 am »

Most of the snow is going now.

Jaded · « **Reply #3646 on:** 22 January, 2013, 08:48:10 am »

We had a light dusting this morning.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #3647 on:** 22 January, 2013, 09:09:32 am »

Hah. The weather is playing tricks. When I went out at 6am it had been raining and the snow was going. When I left to go to work about half eight, it was snowing heavily and it's sticking. It should make its mind up.

tiermat · « **Reply #3648 on:** 22 January, 2013, 09:16:27 am »

We have a lovely combo on the road outside our house.

Ice - check
Snow on top of the ice - check
Snow squashed down by cars - check

It has been interesting this morning, watching the car ballet going on. Oh! There's another one, a Citreon C2, going sideways around the corner...

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #3649 on:** 22 January, 2013, 11:23:18 am »

The side road outside Larrington Towers always turns into a skating rink after even a light dose of sno. And you always get idiots who approach the T-junction at dry-road speeds and use their usual dry-road braking point. And then slide helplessly into the middle of the main road. I saw two doing this just in the time it took me unload my shopping from the motor-car.

Later there was a huge UPS delivery van which approached the junction sensibly, then turned right in a full-on power slide.