rad Posted January 13, 2010 Author Posted January 13, 2010 Snow in hillingdon, but we are open, still falling and the roads are not gritted. Interesting drivie in.
kevbaz Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 we had a couple of hours of slushy conditions heavy snow mixed with heavy sleet, plymouth was gridlocked for two hours because of a combination of roadworks on the major route and the weather, 1000's were stuck on the A38 nr exeter due to the weather, 8 hours!!! they were there for, bugger that! anyway woke this morning to not a flake or slush in sight, completely gone! bah!
sidewinder Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 had 2 inches perhaps here....and we're open for some reason bugger all people in and it took me 40 mins to come 2 miles and pretty much the only school in the area not just open for exams
Joh619 Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Derby is covered in black ice this morning, as was my car. Couldn't do anything other than slide off my drive and if the main road hadn't been gritted I'd have just left my car there and not even tried it. The best part is the school carpark. You have to drive to the end of a road which gets progressivly worse as there's less people needing to drive along it. Then at the end you have to do a 180 to drive into the carpark. As I was driving sideways round this corner I noticed a wheelie bin with a sign on it saying "Very bad ice" ...yes...thanks for that...how about some grit/salt? Forecast for snow all day today I think. Will be fun if that sits ontop of the black ice!! :'(
glennda Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 not closed here, has taken me an hour and a half to drive the journey that normally takes 25/30 mins!! about inch and a half more snow on top of a couple of inches or so and still failling
localzuk Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 It's like we live in a different world...looking at the map on the TV last night, the snow actually skipped us - curving up gracefully from left to right. We managed about a centimetre of slushy snow last night. When people remember the winter of 2009-2010 as particularly hard, all us East Dorset folks will be going 'huh?' I think the BBC manage to miss Somerset and Dorset off their forecasts most of the time. When they were talking about the snow in the South West last night, they talked about Devon, Cornwall and Gloucester and a 2 second comment including Somerset and Dorset. The weather man, with his big sweeping map of the UK swooshes past us like we don't exist...
Guest theeldergeek Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 It's like we live in a different world...looking at the map on the TV last night, the snow actually skipped us - curving up gracefully from left to right. We managed about a centimetre of slushy snow last night. When people remember the winter of 2009-2010 as particularly hard, all us East Dorset folks will be going 'huh?' I was born in Dorset, lived in Wimborne for the first few years of my life. I have a vague memory of snow when I was about 5 years old, some 40 years ago!
SteveBentley Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Huddersfield is under black ice, buses are suspended and although I live on a main road and could have driven in, it took half an hour to chip the ice off half the windscreen (the de-icer was freezing on contact!) I've gone for the "phone work and take a day's annual leave and sit and watch crap daytime telly" approach. Apparently the road between one of the main student halls and the Uni is blocked due to the ice, so the place will be quiet today anyway.
Joh619 Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Apparently the road between one of the main student halls and the Uni is blocked due to the ice, so the place will be quiet today anyway. Hehe, if that's the halls I stayed in as a student I can imagine it being very bad in this weather! That bus was bad enough in the summer
eduabncs Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Saw this on the way to work this morning after parking my own car!
copson90 Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Because of sleet/snow this morning, took a 20 minute journey 2 hours!!
Devontechie Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 It's like we live in a different world...looking at the map on the TV last night, the snow actually skipped us - curving up gracefully from left to right. We managed about a centimetre of slushy snow last night. When people remember the winter of 2009-2010 as particularly hard, all us East Dorset folks will be going 'huh?' I know what you mean by a different world. Living in South Devon and the snow misses us most of the time. We had rain most of the day yesterday but outside of town there was snow! Today is a lovely sounny day... Steve
sippo Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 I got in this morning, despite taking me 2 hours to get in. 2 thirds of the students are in, despite living in rural areas. What annoyed me the most was that teachers that have 4x4's aren't in, and staff that live closer/easier to school than me aren't in!
Tyiell Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Closing early here. But I'm getting an unfair earful because Groupcall failed on us and our SMS notifications to parents to say we are closing early haven't gone through. In their defense this is the first time throughout all this bad weather that they haven't worked flawlessly... Still, it's all my fault obviously
eduabncs Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Ouch!! "Looks just like a Golf" I drive a Pug so it's not mine!
alan-d Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 I drive a Pug so it's not mine! You're one of those drivers that has never had an accident but have seen hundreds in your rear view mirror
eduabncs Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 You're one of those drivers that has never had an accident but have seen hundreds in your rear view mirror Nope them's BMW and Volvo drivers!
CAM Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 Sutton was gridlocked today. Roads are clearing up but I am expecting more trouble at evening peak.
copson90 Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 I will try and plan an early finish to avoid more traffic.
elsiegee40 Posted January 13, 2010 Posted January 13, 2010 What a morning. West Kent gridlocked, parents taking 2.5 hours to get her despite advising them not to travel if they live outsside the town. Closing at 2pm thank goodness. I can't take much more telephone duty
6Foot2 Posted January 17, 2010 Posted January 17, 2010 To wake this thread up just after the thaw has completed in our area I have just received an early warning from the Met Office of heavy snow on Wednesday [may not reach our area according to current estimates but these are changeable as this is a very early alert] Check this webpage for more detail: Met Office : Invent - Weather: Map view To the top right of the page [where it says 'Forecast Warnings'] click on the yellow bar when it displays 'Wed 20 Jan'
elsiegee40 Posted January 17, 2010 Posted January 17, 2010 To wake this thread up just after the thaw has completed in our area I have just received an early warning from the Met Office of heavy snow on Wednesday [may not reach our area according to current estimates but these are changeable as this is a very early alert] Check this webpage for more detail: Met Office : Invent - Weather: Map view To the top right of the page [where it says 'Forecast Warnings'] click on the yellow bar when it displays 'Wed 20 Jan' Just checked our local forecast... BBC/ Met Office has us for 'Heavy Snow' on Wednesday too
sippo Posted January 20, 2010 Posted January 20, 2010 Snowing again here. Has been since 6am. Really starting to cheese me off now!
witch Posted January 20, 2010 Posted January 20, 2010 Snowing again here. Has been since 6am. Really starting to cheese me off now! Me too...BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T GOT ANY
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