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dual thread snow/gritters
on: November 27, 2010, 00:35:33 AM
any gritters out where you are ?

I was up around Scotland last week and they were everywhere - no snow or ice yet... they were just getting ready.....

up in the north east.... Ive seen two.... most of the roads are sheet ice... the normal 12min drive home took me over an hour... and it was still iffy...


anyway.... anyone else got snow ?

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Reply #1 on: November 27, 2010, 00:36:49 AM
small amount of snow here, everywhere has been gritted for ages.
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Reply #2 on: November 27, 2010, 00:39:31 AM
We dont get snow here, unless its April or something ridiculous. But we have a massive hill that blocks it all off ):
Id like to say I miss snow, but the last time apart from last year weve properly had it I was 4 years old.

Im looking forward to my bus rides in to college now ¬_¬
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Reply #3 on: November 27, 2010, 01:07:01 AM
The only time we should have snow is Christmas Eve/Day when everyone is at home, any other time its a complete nuisance, especially since Hampshire council especially have no concept of an effective gritting scheme.
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Reply #4 on: November 27, 2010, 03:32:56 AM
They have been gritting North Devon around Barnstaple all week, ive been passing through everynight and its been not nearly cold enough tbh, just a waste of grit, they will learn when the snow hits and they are out of it. :P

Went out tonight, around a few villages high up in the middle of nowhere i ran into some, and a bit of slush/ice in Torrington on the trading estate only.

I was looking forward as always to a bit of snow, but when your driving all hours of the night on A/B roads and tracks well lets just say you dont look forward to it so much :P
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Reply #5 on: November 27, 2010, 04:46:53 AM
The gritters round here are very regular  :rock:
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Reply #6 on: November 27, 2010, 04:55:27 AM
no gritters been around here , 5 inches of snow and it is still snowing lol
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Reply #7 on: November 27, 2010, 06:37:04 AM
Weve had 0.5 inch of snow here and... OMFG... were ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!  Seriously.  How I will ever get to work on Monday. I just dont know.  Ive heard the local hospital is closing (permanently) and all the schools are out for at least seven years.  Why cant we have European snow which doesnt ever affect stuff or people?  In Belgium, I drove at 70mph in snow (along with everybody else) or are UK folk just... PUSSIES?....
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Reply #8 on: November 27, 2010, 09:14:37 AM
I got plenty anyone need some ?
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Reply #9 on: November 27, 2010, 09:25:58 AM
Quote from: Eagle
Weve had 0.5 inch of snow here and... OMFG... were ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!  Seriously.  How I will ever get to work on Monday. I just dont know.  Ive heard the local hospital is closing (permanently) and all the schools are out for at least seven years.  Why cant we have European snow which doesnt ever affect stuff or people?  In Belgium, I drove at 70mph in snow (along with everybody else) or are UK folk just... PUSSIES?....


No, we just dont have snow enough of the time for most people to ever get used to it. We either want no snow at all or snow half of the year so it becomes a fact of life, not a once in every 5-7 years for 3 days affair.

Im with Clocked, but I think us Southerners struggle with it more on the grounds of being the least used to it.
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Reply #10 on: November 27, 2010, 10:17:43 AM
Lovely snow.

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Reply #11 on: November 27, 2010, 11:42:49 AM
Were too near the sea, so lying snow is a real rarity. Bit further inland were due some this weekend, though its blue sky and sunshine right now :(
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dual thread snow/gritters
Reply #12 on: November 27, 2010, 11:51:12 AM
I think the reason we have more snow/ice problems than other countries who look to just get along with it is....

as zpyder said, a lot of people arent used to it...

its a lot wetter here.... I remember being in Philadelphia at -8C (it had been constantly sub-zero for weeks)  a few years back, and you could walk across sheet ice without a problem, it wasnt slippy at all... apparently because its dry.... it was practically sticky

and the weather changes a lot.... peaks of -10C overnight then +5C during the day is normal.... so all the ice/snow melts during the day then freezers over at night making it slippy as hell !


not a lot of other places have that kind of combination :o
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Reply #13 on: November 27, 2010, 12:16:30 PM
Just a quick (unsharp) pic from today.

Unusually early with this much in november, it was snowing on open lakes !
Reason being a negativ northatlantic oscillation NOA
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Reply #14 on: November 27, 2010, 15:27:28 PM
seen some grit on the roads but no gritters
must be the grit fairys...
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