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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: daddymatty82 on November 28, 2010, 08:59:34 pm
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Where is the worst of the snow in the country as swindon there is naff all and if i got a load to take somewhere i could do with how bad it is in certain places around the country. where has the snow hit bad? cheers peoples
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in the Lampeter Llandysul area of Wales , there was only a couple of inches . The main roads are all clear as far as I know , but the ungritted small side roads are like ice rinks....Traffic is moving about , albeit slowly on the side roads .
cheers
Russ
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Scottish Borders near Earlston - we've got about a foot of the white stuff
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buckie we have at least 6 inches and its snowing again, all the main roads are open.
have you had a look on the traffic scotland website, at the eye road cams,
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about 6 inchs up here. with drifting. only 4x4 conditions
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About 4 inches here, most arrived this morning this morning. Roads possibly passable in a car, though NOT in my car. Our council is very good at gritting and clearing the roads- came home tonight and crossed the border from Lanark into Falkirk, and found a snow plough sitting waiting for us just over the council border, and lovely clear road!
Beth
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4 inches in Derbyshire (I measured it!)
now seriously icy :( not looking forward to tomorrow night when more snow is due, on top of the ice...
And our gritters dont seem to work weekends
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Over a foot here I think - didn't use measuring tape only 'leg/boot', wind up so drifting where we cleared!!! OH van parked at the end of the track so he can make an attempt to get to work - our wee van well and truly stuck at home.
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For once - we seem to be escaping it 8) Only an inch or so at the moment, but there's some forecast for Tuesday ::)
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Well after a hairy landing at Edinburgh Airport yesterday afternoon (one of the few planes let in, it then had to wait for a taxi to lead the plane to the building as there was a white out, no idea how the pilot got it down!), and then a diversion home, but OH got the car (already parked at the bottom of the lane) out and picked me up from Galashiels.... this morning there is even more, and no way anoyone is going out today.... Out to count my sheep now... and clear the polytunnel... and the fruitcage.... and bring warm water to the goatshed... Oh I realy do NOT like this kind of winter!!!!
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a foot here in North Fife. Worst is that it had started thawing last night and has re frozen like a sheet under new snow. the netting on the run is a casualty, not even looked at the polytunnel yet...:&>
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None here in Devon yet but coming back from Wolverhampton in the early hours of Saturday morning Somerset was like fairyland with snow lying under a bright moon. Thankfully the motorway was clear though!
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Abbattoir day here on edge of north york moors. We had another 4 inches on top of the 4 we already had!
Managed to get pick-up & trailer to main road and further down road 12 miles there was much less snow only a couple of inches. We have so much because we're quite close to the coast and its been battered by snow storms, at work 9 miles in the opposite direction from home (made it here in my trusty pick-up and have already dug out one smart car!! ::) and given a lift to someone who was stuck) the snow is coming down in great chunks so i think i'll do what i have to do and head back home. Had all the pigs to straw up again this morning and have carried about 10 gallon of warm water to free up troughs, they've all had their breakfasts and gone back to bed. I wish!! ;D
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I was flying home from Belfast to Edinburgh yesterday but wasn't lucky enough to get there ::)
Eventually got rerouted to Glasgow so at least on the right land mass ::) but my car was at Edinburgh airport and the promised coaches didn't meet us at Glasgow - turned out the transport manager for Easyjet in Glasgow on shift hadn't been told of the diversion of our plane ::) tho obviously someone did cos it landed AFTER Edinburgh had reopened I later realised >:(
Waiting 2 hours in Belfast, another hour and a half or so in Glasgow, then a hairy scary bus ride to Edinburgh that took us til 10pm and the hotels were all full of flight cancelled folk so had no option but to crawl home up the A92 on the one available lane in tight formation with everyone from the AA van to HGVs :o It started snowing heavily as I got into my car so I was pretty nervous but SO grateful for the Disco which kept me on the bits of road I was driving on, even tho sometimes over the lines in one direction or another and never higher than 3rd gear that I recall :o Drove the long way home, up to Parbroath and back down the A913 to avoid the shorter backroad routes as I didn't know what they'd be like.
Driving them this morning with hay for the hill stock was ok but actually almost better not seeing what you're driving on ;)
Haying here has been a nightmare, everything frozen solid including my hands, taps, bales, strings... and a tree half fallen beside the house. I have cancelled my evening out in advance after that 12 hour epic yesterday, it was as the police say "necessary travel" and so is feeding but everything else is NOT today!
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We are rural. Central Region. There is over a foot of snow on the road. I havent been out since Friday. The hens wouldnt come out of their house on Sat. So were fed etc indoors. Great fun.
Cheers Helen
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14 inches in NW Fife now & still no plough or grit ???
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Earlston 15in/2ft of snow now
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More heavy snow falling in north Fife just now :o
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I probably asked you before, ellied, where is it you are?
You are so brave making the journey last night! OH managed to get out today but my car is a no go until it thaws! :&>
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Two or three inches here in north Wales. More higher up - we are about 500ft or so. Side roads treacherous due to very hard frosts, more like an ice rink than a tarmac surface, but main roads are clear. Nowhere near as much as other parts of the country I don't think. But the cold is penetrating. Everything has frozen up. Keep taking hot water out to thaw the chickens drinker and the sheep's water buckets. Bedroom windows frozen up, outside taps and outbuilding taps frozen and last night the dog food had frozen up in the tin! Oh and the school bus not running this morning (heaven knows why!!), See what the rest of the week brings us all. Keep warm everyone. :wave:
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Over a foot here now, the snow plough/gritter was past before 8am, but hasn't been back since. Made it into work, though I swear the M9 was in a worse state than the little B road we are on.
Our pigs were supposed to go the abattoir this morning, however we didn't manage that oddly enough!
Beth
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Well over a foot here now but at last they have sent a snow plough up through the village.
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just over 2 and a half foot warmist day to day minus 10 6.30 minus 17
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I reckon over 2 ft here. Too busy wading through it to measure it today! oh well, it'll still be there tomorrow ;)
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20 inches and no gritters to be seen, despite promises this summer that it wouldn't happen again. Last winter we had two separate times of 14 days with no buses in our village. We live inside the m25 in a very hilly area. I am very prepared for winter, plenty of animal and human supplies why can't my council buy more grit and a snow plough instead of bad spending.
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Nearly a foot deep here in East Sussex, mental! Been snowing non-stop for the last few hours had about 4 inches now in about 3 hours.