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« Reply #40 on: December 20, 2010, 20:35:12 pm » |
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Maybe the Beeb could give the Government advice on how their reporters cope with getting in and out of these places where people are trapped in the snow then we can all do what they do.
They don't - they just hole up in a 5 star hotel for as long as possible then claim it all back on expenses |
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DustCobb
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« Reply #41 on: December 22, 2010, 10:40:23 am » |
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Ermmm it Snowed.
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« Reply #42 on: December 22, 2010, 20:16:47 pm » |
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A bit behind the times now, but I'll share it with you now that I'm back on line. Having left Bingley at 02.00 on Sunday at a temperature of -10, it had "warmed up" to a balmy -4 around Mansfield, but dropped back down to -14 when we passed junction 15 at 04.30, but with no particular traffic problems - we have snow ploughs and gritters oop north. Then, between junction 15 and 13, we got down to a single line of traffic on solid ice. Loads of lorries were pulled up next to the northbound carriageway around Newport Pagnell. We then generally had two carriageways round the M25 and all the way to the coast. It started to snow in Lille and continued increasingly heavily through Belgium. I decided against trying to get through the Ardennes and made an unscheduled overnight at Namur.
On Monday, it had stopped snowing, so the Belgians had cleared the roads. On the Ardennes motorway, they had pulled all the HGVs over to the side and had the Red Cross and police visiting them to check up on them and deliver them supplies. They regularly had police stationed to any who were trying to get thorough, but that meant the cars wouldn't get stuck behind them on the hills. They also coned off one lane, while they ploughed and gritted it and removed all the trees that had collapsed onto the road, then when a section was done, they reopened it and did the same to the other lane. What should have been the most difficult part of the journey became one of the easiest.
Anyway, having got to Strasbourg temperatures had risen to just above zero and it had started to rain and there is no snow left at low levels down here. There is still plenty in the mountains and its due to start snowing again on Friday, so my skiing should be fine.
I believe its still freezing back in Blighty.
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« Reply #43 on: December 22, 2010, 20:31:06 pm » |
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A few hours of heavy snow here in Bedfordshire this morning with trucks jack knifing all over the place & the police shutting roads left right & centre & this evening while doing the last of the Christmas shopping the roads were icing up & it was a bit slippy slidey out there.
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Do you know what "Nemesis" means?
A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent personified in this case by a sex starved voyeur that is Tyro.
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Deepcut Cobbler
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« Reply #44 on: December 05, 2011, 20:34:04 pm » |
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.”
Laurance Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #45 on: December 05, 2011, 22:19:21 pm » |
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This one? Nope, the original one was about a million pages long but it was on the old site.  |
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singcobb
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« Reply #47 on: February 02, 2012, 13:08:38 pm » |
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-14 here last night and a max of -7 today. Forecast is for -16 tonight and -21 on friday night.
I'm going into hibernation.
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« Reply #48 on: February 11, 2012, 11:14:27 am » |
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-14 here last night and a max of -7 today. Forecast is for -16 tonight and -21 on friday night.
I'm going into hibernation.
Never mind -14 in Germany SingCobb, it was -14.5 last night in Irthlingborough!! If you want spring like weather, head for Scotland! |
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pouncem
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Ever the optimist.
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« Reply #49 on: February 11, 2012, 15:36:08 pm » |
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I had to defrost the windscreen my car today..both sides!
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singcobb
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« Reply #50 on: February 11, 2012, 18:46:43 pm » |
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Never mind -14 in Germany SingCobb, it was -14.5 last night in Irthlingborough!! If you want spring like weather, head for Scotland! Bottomed out here at -26 this week and more to come along with even more snow Went for a walk with the kids today down the field tracks at - 12, all was good until we cleared the tree line and the wind chill cut in. |
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« Reply #51 on: February 11, 2012, 20:13:18 pm » |
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Bottomed out here at -26 this week and more to come along with even more snow Went for a walk with the kids today down the field tracks at - 12, all was good until we cleared the tree line and the wind chill cut in. If you want wind chill, try Skegness beach! I was there last Saturday and the snow was actling just like sand. It was like being slashed with mini razor blades. The evening blizzard was the best I've seen since the early 80's!  |
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« Reply #52 on: February 12, 2012, 11:54:36 am » |
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I can remember the 80s blizzards with the snow coming off the fields just outside Brixworth and forming snow tunnels as it drifted over the A508
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« Reply #53 on: February 12, 2012, 16:17:10 pm » |
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I can remember the 80s blizzards with the snow coming off the fields just outside Brixworth and forming snow tunnels as it drifted over the A508
Well, the extreme temps are over for now here, it's back to normalish temperatures, +3 today. |
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« Reply #54 on: February 12, 2012, 21:00:31 pm » |
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The forecast reckons we might be at 0C by wednesday, but back to -5 on thursday. This just means a load more snow for the kids to play in. They even have sledges at the kindergarten for weather like this.
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