Devontechie Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Yippee! Husband home safely. Trip to in-laws scrapped Thats good.. @elsiegee40 We got a bit this morning..
rad Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 We have about 3 to 4 inches in places in Hillingdon, near to Heathrow. The gritters have been out but the side roads are not great. Have yet to update the school website...
kmount Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Similar here, was a cold one out clearing the car and drive for the wife to go to work 6am this morn. Was nice to go back to bed though :>
X-13 Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 So much talk of "inches"... the Frankie Howard portion of my brain is overloading.
vikpaw Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 So much talk of "inches"... the Frankie Howard portion of my brain is overloading. portion?
X-13 Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 portion? 99.99999% is a portion. A large portion, but a portion all the same.
PiqueABoo Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 150-200mm here, just finished helping Sprogette make SnowLady cradling SnowBaby(!), their SnowRabbit(!!) and SnowArmchair(!!!)... managed to talk her out of the cat, coffee table, sofa, bed, TV, igloo etc... cunningly using all the snow that was on the sloping drive with Teacher t'other half's car at the top of it.
vikpaw Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 99.99999% is a portion. A large portion, but a portion all the same. Now my inner Frankie Howard is tittering
X-13 Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Now my inner Frankie Howard is tittering OOh err, vikpaw
vikpaw Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Saw some photos of a friend back home, whose neighbours have built a snow wall at the end of their drive, blocking them in Now that's a great excuse not to go to work.
elsiegee40 Posted February 5, 2012 Author Posted February 5, 2012 I take it snow isn't an issue for you @vikpaw ?
Little-Miss Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 It snowed non stop from about 2pm yesterday and then hasn't bothered overnight. I'm full of cold and was really hoping for a duvet day tomorrow!!
kernewek-sam Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) Deep joy Surely that should be... Deep joy ! It doesn't need to be that deep in Kent to stuff the roads and railway To be fair the first sharp frost we had this winter in Kent stopped the trains getting to London (at least where I am). 150-200mm here, just finished helping Sprogette make SnowLady cradling SnowBaby(!), their SnowRabbit(!!) and SnowArmchair(!!!)... managed to talk her out of the cat, coffee table, sofa, bed, TV, igloo etc... cunningly using all the snow that was on the sloping drive with Teacher t'other half's car at the top of it. SnowLady... just saw this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16894177 Edited February 5, 2012 by kernewek-sam
6Foot2 Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 Could be worse. Apparently New Yorkers have seen two feet of snow: http://www.currystew.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image.jpg 3
vikpaw Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 I take it snow isn't an issue for you @vikpaw ? Only in as much as we get sent alert notices from BA and travel agents about the situation regards flights in / out of LHR, LGW, MAN etc. Just in case we're travelling. Biggest problem here is a sandstorm, or two days ago, we had a few mm of rain
X-13 Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 Biggest problem here is a sandstorm, or two days ago, we had a few mm of rain [ATTACH=CONFIG]12940[/ATTACH] Actually... That IS pretty badass.
Sirbendy Posted February 6, 2012 Posted February 6, 2012 We had a couple of inches. Today it's 99% gone. However, at work and the area round there, it's still "tracks in the snow", and at tiddlers nursery, it's not even that due to it being on an Industrial estate with no weekend traffic! Cue us riding on top of frozen snow all the way in. The snow/winter tyres did well. "Snow mode" on the gearbox though, less so. I'm afraid I don't like GM's shift strategy in that mode...lots of revs, very little go...feels very uncontrolled. So I turned it off again. Heh.
Devontechie Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 looks like there is another weather warning for Snow on Thursday & Friday.... Met Office: UK: severe weather warnings 1
sonofsanta Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 looks like there is another weather warning for Snow on Thursday & Friday.... Met Office: UK: severe weather warnings Starting Thursday at 9pm for near on 24 hours... that'll be lots of happy children and one very grumpy me as I get woken up by the Head phoning my mobile at 6am again Cheers for the heads up. It certainly didn't look like that at the start of the week.
elsiegee40 Posted February 8, 2012 Author Posted February 8, 2012 Nooooooooooooooo! It's got to stay away from Heathrow... I want to go to New York
rad Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 Theres me thinking it will come in Half term week, nope, thats tomorrow then. London is on the edge of it, oh well, its cold enough without snow falling onto the ice thats on the pavement.
Devontechie Posted February 8, 2012 Posted February 8, 2012 its cold enough without snow falling onto the ice thats on the pavement. I know what you mean. We still got some snow from the weekend that has frozen on the pavements. Has been trying to snow here today already.
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