06-01-2010, 19:31 | #411 |
Moonshine
Join Date: Dec 2006
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I feel better now. Got home and there's about 4" now. Seems very random where it's fallen, a workmate who went down to croydon said there was a few inches, yet when I went to South Norwood, not that far from Croydon, there was only an inch or so
Stopped off at Em's on the way home, and sat with my foot on the brakes at the top of a hill (the handbrake was totally innefective, as soon as I let my foot off the brakes the van started sliding ) while I waited for the 4 or 5 buses to finish snaking their way down. Felt a bit sorry for the drivers and passengers The roads have been pleasantly empty today. Shame my satnav has thrown its toys out the pram 2 days running so having to remember how to map read! |
06-01-2010, 19:32 | #412 |
Wants Big Meat
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Newcastle
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My car is covered in another inch of snow and it's still a blizzard out there Considering not even setting my alarm tomorrow!
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06-01-2010, 19:45 | #413 |
Joey Tempest
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Gravesend.
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where my mum lives.
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06-01-2010, 20:10 | #414 |
Moonshine
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Location: Chelmsford, innit!
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Not sure about the road legality, but looks a fine way to travel
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06-01-2010, 21:12 | #415 |
Preparing more tumbleweed
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Hawaii
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You could be calling it kinda damp here today. Back in 1981, it snowed really heavily and deep for the same reasons it currently is, and the only way mum could get around was to have my sister and I sitting on this huge old sled my grandfather had made, with me in my pram seat that she'd strapped to the sled (and me strapped tot he seat) with my sister sitting on the front. I was 1 at the time, my sis was 3. The sled was designed to take up to two adults, and has nice wide tread on it so it's stable as a rock. Ideal for taking little kids sledding with parents. Turns out my parents still have that old sled, so today mum and my sister took my 9 month old niece out fairly wide tread so it's stable as a rock, strapped to the sled in her detachable high-chair
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06-01-2010, 21:49 | #416 |
BBx woz 'ere :P
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This is the snow in my neck of the woods. Only about 5-6" but it's enough to keep us entertained! Prepared my exodus for work tomorrow!
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06-01-2010, 22:41 | #417 |
L'Oréal
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Portsmouth
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Yeah there is slush everywhere, yeah the pavements are a couple of inches of compacted snow/ice, yeah the country is running out of grit/salt but I LOVE SNOW
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06-01-2010, 23:36 | #418 |
Dubious
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Northampton
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Noooo I want moree!!! Here it just looks like a flour delivery truck has exploded
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06-01-2010, 23:46 | #419 |
Spinky-Spank
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it's getting a bit tiresome now. Shop has run out of bread and we STILL can't move the car!
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06-01-2010, 23:48 | #420 |
Rocket Fuel
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Adrift in the Orca
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Banbury has ground to a halt, we've had about 6-7", the buses aren't running up the hill to our estate, the roads are all compacted ice, even the main ones. And everyone is panic-buying, both the shops near us have sold out of bread and milk...
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