Woke up with a good 12" of snow outside.
The road towards Jim's was closed, there's a bridge over the canal on the way and it was iced up so nothing could climb it.
I headed the otherway to be confronted by a fuel tanker sliding backwards down Grafton street under the aquaduct, with drivers behind frantically pulling out of the way.
The grid roads are closing themselves down, the minor roads are now made of ice, its still snowing quite hard so the ploughs aren't out.
I have a new definition of optimism though
Woman in a little red car trying to climb a 30 degree hill with her foot to the floor and getting no where!
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When is it ever sunny in the northeast! Only when other people are getting snow it would seem!
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Some snow would have been nice
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Some snow would have been nice
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I got to work all right at 07:30 this morning before all hell broke loose.
We watched in great amusement the antics of later arrivals in the car park. Those with flash RWD sports-cars with tractor-width were suffering badly
Come 10 o'clock we were ordered to go home or risk being snowed in. On the way out of our works we noticed a new Audi parked in very intimate ciontact with our main gates.
I must say my old 2.1TD was brilliant in the by-then very bad conditions. Speaking around it seems that French cars excel at snow. My workmate, who now rund a Mundaneo used to run a Pug 406 2.1TD and he swears the Pug handled snow far better. It's a widely held belief.
It's going to be a shocker tonight. Snow stil lying thick around here and -5 degrees forecast.
My girls want to go to Primark in Bedford tomorrow and on Sunday, I have to make my way to hampshire for a week-long residential training course...
We watched in great amusement the antics of later arrivals in the car park. Those with flash RWD sports-cars with tractor-width were suffering badly
Come 10 o'clock we were ordered to go home or risk being snowed in. On the way out of our works we noticed a new Audi parked in very intimate ciontact with our main gates.
I must say my old 2.1TD was brilliant in the by-then very bad conditions. Speaking around it seems that French cars excel at snow. My workmate, who now rund a Mundaneo used to run a Pug 406 2.1TD and he swears the Pug handled snow far better. It's a widely held belief.
So that's what happend on Grafton St. then. My workmate, who lives down in Loughton fell foul of that one and had a very long diversion to negotiate to get home. Took him an hour and a half to go 5 miles.Xac wrote: The road towards Jim's was closed, there's a bridge over the canal on the way and it was iced up so nothing could climb it.
I headed the otherway to be confronted by a fuel tanker sliding backwards down Grafton street under the aquaduct, with drivers behind frantically pulling out of the way.
It's going to be a shocker tonight. Snow stil lying thick around here and -5 degrees forecast.
My girls want to go to Primark in Bedford tomorrow and on Sunday, I have to make my way to hampshire for a week-long residential training course...
Jim
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We'd have been alright if it wasn't for the lamposts in the central reservation, to get past the blockage caused by the tanker we had to drop onto the other side of the road, which was a sheet of ice.CitroJim wrote: So that's what happend on Grafton St. then. My workmate, who lives down in Loughton fell foul of that one and had a very long diversion to negotiate to get home. Took him an hour and a half to go 5 miles.
Jenny faired well though, but I did have to get out and break up the ice to get traction a couple of times.
I have noticed that 4x4s have been having a hard time of it though.
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Yes I have been watching that, and we seem like muppets compared to them, they certainly have to deal with very bad conditions there.citronut wrote:i think the ICE ROAD TRUCKERS would think what we are getting is like a fly on there windscreen, compaired to wht they are used to (skatting/driving on thin ice)
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Imagine if one of the ice road truckers were to view what we have been through here, via the media they would p##s themselves laughing, at the lack of planning.
As we have had problems with the supply of grit, then how about some more planning from the authorities, I.E. the setting up of separate different stockpiles in the different areas of the country, North, South, East, and West as smaller feeder supplies to the Highways Agency, and the county, and local councils.
Therefore we would not be stuck as we are now with the stockpile at the mine that supplies the whole of the U.K. being drawn down so quickly, that they have had to mine more, and up production to keep up with the current demand.
Then there would be a further supply to call on in this once in a blue moon scenario, but as it has caused so many problems, accidents etc, and as the government is able to find money just like that to help the banks, could they not provide some to keep us safe, able to get about, and prevent us looking like complete plonkers when what is a small amount of snow (compared to other countries in Europe) arrives.
Also the gritting vehicles seem to be lower spec than they should be, I.E. no front mounting provision for a snow plough attachment, now obviously this is because of cost, but then what small cost is that compared to all this disruption we have had.
It's no wonder we are running so low on salt supplies when all they do is spread it around in greater amounts, on top of ever deeper snow, and hope it will do it's job.
When what they should is clear it out of the way first then spread it to prevent ice forming.
It comes to something when you even see a gritting vehicle skating around, and then losing control, as happened in Trafalgar Square during last week.
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