It's SNOWING!!!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Yeah, yeah, I know that's not news round where a lot of CSers live, but it is where I live; as in the south east of England. XD Day off today, and tomorrow I am getting a lift into work and taxi back. I'd rather shell out £15 and be safe, rather than attempt to drive there and back on my motorbike and risk coming off. I drove back last night alrightish, but I was scared shitless when coming down the country lane, and as I got closer to my home, the worse the roads were. O_o

I went for a walk in the snow this morning; lovely! :D

[AirHostess]

I am loving it. Even if I had been at work all the flights have been cancelled and crew told to stay at home!

[RayvenQ]

Lace, funnily enough, I'm the opposite, when I used to go out on my bike, I practically taunted mother nature to give me everything she had :lol: Thankfully that was mostly just rain and high crosswinds. But me and my bike, we'd take on anything :D 30 year old bike and 20 odd year old rider.

[Greenday]

Please tell me you guys actually got enough snow that I won't laugh at everyone getting off and freaking out about it.

[RayvenQ]

Not all that much, but Lace is on a motorbike, which can make things, interesting, shall we say.

[lordlundar]

Shovel a foot of it for two weeks and tell me how much you like it then.:devil:

[Lace Neil Singer]

Shovel a foot of it for two weeks and tell me how much you like it then.:devil:

Nonsense, that's the man's job. XD I'd be looking out the window and watching. :lol:

At least 2 inches fell, and the gritters tend to avoid the side roads and country roads and just salt the main roads. xD The road where I live is covered in the stuff.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Hehe, I saw this thread, and right below it was Crazylegs' thread entitled, "It's only snow!" :lol:

[dalesys]

but I was scared shitless

Yeah, it's extremely difficult to maintain proper adhesion to the motorcycle seat with a pantsload:p

[blas]

Around these parts, they don't plow until there's at least 3 inches on "side streets" (meaning residential streets to the side of main roads). Due to budget issues, my city is much less maintained in the winter than say, the city I work in and where my parents live.

I notice a huge difference on bad winter days/nights. Once I get to that city, the roads have been plowed, and even in the worst conditions are still somewhat driveable, whereas my city is a joke. Several hours later, there is still brown slush all over the main drags, only ONE lane on the highway is plowed until later in the day, and my street? Fuggeddaboudit. Even when we get a break from the snow for a few days, there is still a ton of snow that hasn't even been touched, cars just keep pounding it down by driving on it, and it's like driving on an ice rink.

[Greenday]

Supposed to get an inch tonight, an inch or so tomorrow, and maybe another inch Wednesday morning.

[Rapscallion]

Gatekeeper had a search for the local news for my area and looked at the video - she laughed at us.

*sigh*

I get no respect.

Was interesting driving up the hill to my house on what had become nearly sheet ice from compacted and spun-on snow. Major lols all around, especially as people were following me close behind and I knew that if I stopped at all then I'd be going backwards... Had to keep the tyres about 45 degrees to the right to prevent me going into the kerb.

Yeah, I walked to work this morning.

Rapscallion

[cinema guy]

We had a bout an inch yesterday afternoon. Driving to work was tricky last night. By the time I finsished at 11.45, the roads were clear, but wet, and suprisingly not frozen.

There was no snow overnight, the snow is disappearing fast this morning, yet I learn there are schools closed in town. :headscratch:

[crazylegs]

We had a bout an inch yesterday afternoon. <snip> the snow is disappearing fast this morning, yet I learn there are schools closed in town. :headscratch:

You must be reasonably close to me I guess...?

Thing is it's not so much how much snow is where you're at, but whether or not the teachers can get in. If they all live in the middle of nowhere (and they all do for some reason) the roads this morning would have been the bad side of lethal, hence no school.

[gaspode]

In the west midlands we had a couple of inches,but Walsall council(the worst run council in the world) has not gritted the roads properly and has not even attempted to grit the side roads.

[Greenday]

Yep, I was right, we got about an inch of snow. Kinda wet snow so it's mad slippery. As usual, my school did nothing to prepare, didn't shovel anything, no salt, and my friend fell on the way to class this morning. I hope no one saw her.

[blas]

Greenday, we got a mini snowstorm last Wednesday night. I mean, for Wisconsin, that's mini mini mini. It's a treat!

But guess what....Thursday morning, vehicle after vehicle in the ditch. There were two major accidents on the freeway that had traffic in logjam, that of which you think you'd only experience in the Twin Cities and Milwaukee or Madison.

[lordlundar]

Gatekeeper had a search for the local news for my area and looked at the video - she laughed at us.

*sigh*

I get no respect.

*DISCLAIMER*Let me first off say that this following comment is not directed at you directly.*DISCLAIMER*

Ya wimps. That's a normal winter day for us, and you basically shut down the city?:p

[Rapscallion]

I didn't - I'm well out of the boundaries of Londonlandialand. I'd generally be prepared to shut the place down to see what would happen, but it's not a decision I am allowed to make.

Yet.

Rapscallion

[Lace Neil Singer]

Round my way, we got 2 inches of snow; more is expected Wednesday night. I may get a lift in from my dad just in case; depends on how it is tomorrow.

[cinema guy]

I friend of mine lives on a hill. This morning she has been out giving cups of tea to lorry drivers who's vehicles are stuck in the snow.

A car crashed near her house last night and the driver was killed.