Snow

[Buleste]

From what it said on the news the local council :spits: are almost out of grit for the roads so it could be fun for people going to work.

If I can find some kids to cover in snow then I'll take some pictures of the snow kids instead.

[Harrison]

We have just had a load more snow here. Probably the same as we had Sunday night! Bit annoyed as I had only washed the car windows this afternoon and made then clear again.

I also saw about the councils running out of grit on the news today. Mad to think they are that unprepared! I bet the owners of the grit/salt quarry in the UK now has a big smile on his face with the orders of more grit that will be coming in.

[woody.cool]

We've just had loads more snow in the early hours, and it's still coming down!
I've even taken a picture!



OMG :shock:
That's the most snow Northampton has seen in years!

[Buleste]

Whilst it still snowing here it looks like the weather forecasters were lying again. at best we had 2 inches which considering our altitude is pathetic.

Snow.jpg

[Harrison]

Yeah, we only had about 2or 3 inches last night too. They definitely said it would be much more than that, especially from all the reports I had been hearing on the radio last night about the blizzard conditions in Salisbury, which isn't that far away!

And when I got up this morning it was raining, so was already doing a good job of melting the snow.

[Stephen Coates]

It has been snowing quite heavily today.

Went to college for my maths test, but the teacher didn't turn up so I'm guessing he couldn't get there.

Got the bus back, which terminated early (luckily it terminated at my stop). As soon as I got off it was announced on the radio that all First Mainline busses are cancelled. Don't know about other operators.

Here is the view from my bedroom today: http://stevecoates.net/snow/thrusday.jpg

[Harrison]

That doesn't look like as much snow as we've had in the south from that last pic. Mad how our public transport system grinds to a halt at the first sign of cold weather!

[Buleste]

I've just had quite a fun drive. At the moment along with the snow there's very thick fog with visibility down to 50 feet in places, people driving in the fog with no lights on, because of the snow it makes the fog worse because every thing's either white or black and all that's along some very windy roads (fortunately gritted as Staffordshire did get a large delivery of grit just before) littered with broken down cars. It was quite interesting.

[Harrison]

Why are there so many idiots driving without their lights on in bad weather?

Driving along the M27 today the rain was so bad that the spay was like fog, with viability down to probably 100 feet in some bits. But some people didn't even have side lights on and you couldn't even see the normal rear lights of cars with their lights on. I, along with a few others, had their fog lights on, and it was needed. Not many did though so it made it really hard to see many of the cars until you were quite close to them.

But why not put any lights on at all? That is just madness! And lorries and big vans too.

So many people also only think you are allowed to use fog lights in fog. In reality they can be used when road visibility to reduced to under 150 yards!

[Buleste]

Like I say quite interesting. There's nothing like driving in thick fog with visibility of about 50-100 foot when all of a sudden something big and black either appears in the rear view mirror with no lights or in front of you. It made turning at junctions interesting. Every right turn you make you're bracing for an impact. And don't even talk to me about lack of indicators or the tail gating that was going on.