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Snow hits the UK (well, England, anyhow) again...

Redcap

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Baron
Seems we're being buried in at least 6" of the white stuff again.

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Photo taken from my second floor flat front window at 0225 Hrs, 2 Feb 2009 (ok, I'm a partial insomniac ;))
 
Seems we're being buried in at least 6" of the white stuff again.


Photo taken from my second floor flat front window at 0225 Hrs, 2 Feb 2009 (ok, I'm a partial insomniac ;))

No, thats called gamer withdrawl symdrome. :rofl:

Dave Chase
 
Only a light, slightly inconvenient dusting here in MK. It looks like several large bags of castor sugar have exploded in my street :)
 
Mate, you be well lucky :) here in London, I've got an involuntary day off care of the snow and TfL, which is a right royal 6-7-inch pain to drive through.

Dangerous is not the word for driving through it. LUNACY is :devil:
 
I always find it amusing how a couple of inches of the white stuff grinds the UK to a standstill, whilst Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, half the US and half of Europe regularly have several feet of the stuff and go about business as usual.
In general, driving standards here are embarrassing. :o

Lightweights is about right. :nonono:
 
It's snowing slightly harder now, so we have - maybe 1 in./2.5 cm? in my street.

My Cocker Spaniels love it though - pair of loopy buggers out in the back garden, chasing snowflakes.... :rofl:
 
A few years ago I was driving to Exeter and there had been some snow. The road was a two lane dual carriageway with one lane bumper to bumper with cars going 10mph and the other lane empty. And there was a ditch that had a high end car stuck and abandoned every ten meters or so ... for miles! Many British drivers either overcompensate for adverse conditions or ignore them completely. Me, I drove in the empty lane at a sedate yet safe 30mph.

Good to know MK isn't too badly hit. I'm moving to Canada next week but I have to finish packing at Big Yellow in MK.
 
That's strange to see in England, but in my neck of the woods we can often get 50cm+ in a night. However, this winter has been very, very mild...for which I am grateful :)
 
Isocahedron's got it about right; I've taken numerous driving courses (professionally required, I should add) both in the Reserves (RMP(v)) and civvy street, which have catered for driving in, amongst other things, adverse conditions; what amazes me is that it isn't a part of the normal driving curriculum. Ye gods, most of it's common sense, but they don't teach it. Lunacy.
 
A very strange winter. Over here it is much colder than usual (the Franconia
region had -38° C), but we also have much less snow - in fact, almost none
at all, which is quite uncommon for our part of Bavaria.
 
I'm not so impressed; here in New England USA we've had several snowstorms, each delivering that amount of snow. :smirk: :p
 
I'm in the Sierra Nevada foothills, near the California/Nevada border. I'd swear it's April or May today. I went out to teach morning classes in my shirtsleeves and wasn't even chilly. The sunlight is warm and there's a cool breeze. It's in the mid 60s (Fahrenheit. ;)

We've had snow in May and July here in past years, and it's not unusual to get hit with a big patch of winter at the end of February even if it starts out warm. Last year my daughter got about two feet of snow for her birthday party on the third week of Feb., and we got another two feet on top before the month ended.
 
Ye gods, most of it's common sense, but they don't teach it. Lunacy.

That's because it's so ...common ;)

Here in Auckland, NZ, it's a smidgeon under 30 degrees C which means when you hop in your car after work, you can feel your eyeballs drying out! It must be our English heritage, but no-one teaches common sense for driving here, either. Which makes driving after a little rain ... entertaining.

Poor old Oz is getting hammered again, bush fires, dry winds, no water. If a little cloud appears in the sky, it makes the national news ;). My sister lives in Adelaide, SA, yet persists in trying to have a garden that doesn't resemble the big red centre. Crazy ex-pat kiwi.

Ob Trav: Does weather ever feature in your Trav games (apart from the obligatory 'dark and stormy night')? The last couple of games I've run were on desert worlds, but most of the action was inside bases.
 
Well...

I just tried to get my car out of the communal car park here at my block of flats (US: Apartment block).

Got it all prepped yesterday, tracks right up to the road, neatly reversed in self same tracks to enable me to get the car out at 04:30.

Went to be early, as I decided to get out earlier this morning, due to ice warnings.

I needn't've bothered. Couldn't get the )&£%)*&")($&£_*%*$&% car out of the blasted bay, let alone the car park. Damn thing kept sliding of the tracks and spinning the wheels, despite the traction control system kicking in.

So, phoned work to give them the bad news, and got a load of sarcasm back. Charming.

I don't need that rubbish, so the hell with it. I'm staying home today.
 
All that snow is the reason I live in South Florida, LOL.
gets down to 70 F I grab a jacket.

Hehehehe. Here in Southern California, anything below 68 Fahrenheit is considered 'cold outside' weather, time to grab a sweater or light jacket.

When us Californians get to see snow, we ONLY get to see snow when we are willingly going up to the skiing mountain slopes. That's the only time we see snow, is when we want to play (ski) in it.
 
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