Beast from the East

[BoldonLad]

So much for the supposed hardy Geordies!

Real men continue punting in short sleeves...

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He may be a Geordie, not all of them are confined to the Bigg Market

 

[screenman]

Thought today was Wednesday!

Maybe not in Scotland.

 

[screenman]

I cleared the caravan roof an hour ago, I measured it at 24cm deep all over, unfortunately it has just started snowing again hard.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Was told that weather was dire at home so to go home early. Sunshine and blue skies now.

 

[Roadhump]

We've got 3 feet here in Plymouth, but they say that's a result of in-breeding.

On a serious note, there have been quite a few accidents and road closures. All the car drivers have left the office, whilst I will be leaving my motorbike here and walking home. This will take me 70 minutes but I have my bike gear and two jackets.

3 feet in Plymouth eh? Even worse than here where I woke up to 2 feet of snow this morning

 

[MarkF]

First white out I've ever experienced, leaving Lincoln centre this morning I couldn't see anything, was like somebody had thrown a white blanket over the car.

As an aside, the road was called Monks Road, not particularly steep, but a few cars were slithering and sliding backwards, or just plain stuck. they were all high end cars, Jags, BMW's etc? Our Fiat 500 flew up without issues.

 

[Tenacious Sloth]

Early start at work this morning, so jumped on the hybrid at 0430 for my usual 13 commute into Peterborough.

Lots of snow and ice and the GPS was showing -13 with the windchill. The back roads I use were untreated so the only noise was my tyres crunching through the snow. Lovely. Only problem I had was my eyes freezing up.

Cycled home through a blizzard mid-afternoon and arrived home feeling refreshed.

Beast of the East, my arse!

Graham

 

[Mr Celine]

As an aside, the road was called Monks Road, not particularly steep, but a few cars were slithering and sliding backwards, or just plain stuck. they were all high end cars, Jags, BMW's etc? Our Fiat 500 flew up without issues.

Mrs Celine took my Ka (which underneath is a fiat 500) to work yesterday because she couldn't get the big car up the hill.
It took me 15 minutes to get the big car out the drive. 1 minute trying followed by 14 minutes trying to work out how to switch off the traction control.
I suspect a lot of people don't know how useless most of these systems are in snow or mud.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

The news channels must triage their "man/woman on the spot" contributors to weed out anyone who might take a philosophical view on their situation.

 

[arranandy]

Absolutely no snow here in the Netherlands. However it has been sub-zero all day with biting cold wind. The locals are getting excited about the prospect of skating on the frozen canals

 

[midlife]

Beast from the east satellite today......

 

[Milzy]

Had to drive at 20mph all the way to work. Things will slowly warm up now. I hope my plants don’t die in the garden.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Thundersnow!!

 

[classic33]

Thundersnow!!

Yellow or Red?

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Yellow or Red?

Loud, with flashy lightning