The 'Freeze Of The Millenium' is coming...

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  • etapechamp
    etapechamp Posts: 81
    interesting, i can see wiggle and ribble selling out of turbo trainers in a rush to keep warm , if that weather hits the uk.
  • arthur_scrimshaw
    arthur_scrimshaw Posts: 2,596
    spiked tyres will be like gold dust again, I recommend stocking up, create a shortage/panic and flogging them on ebay. Probably too late now!
  • etapechamp
    etapechamp Posts: 81
    does anybody need some rock salt ?
  • Cressers
    Cressers Posts: 1,329
    You may want stocks of food, and bottled gas if you use that for cooking or heating...

    ...and the times of exceptional demand, such as in the depths of harsh winter, are the times when the National grid is most likely to fail.
  • bearfraser
    bearfraser Posts: 435
    I want my "free" shovel!!!!!!
  • Ollieda
    Ollieda Posts: 1,010
    Arthur Scrimshaw wrote:
    spiked tyres will be like gold dust again, I recommend stocking up, create a shortage/panic and flogging them on ebay. Probably too late now!

    don't worry, Bhima is still working on his sandpaper tyres and shoes that he was testing last year! They will save us all!
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    I don't know about spiked tyres but if you had a garage full of sledges you could have made a killing on ebay last Winter.
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Believe it when I see it. Yesterdays weather forcast was for sun and 20 dgs here. :roll:
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    Are these the same people who predicted the bar b q winter last year, or the scorching summer we never got afterwards?
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    I have this horrible feeling that Putin and Medvedyev are doing a spot of crisis engineering - ''we need all our gas'' - so that they can up gas export prices. Usually they switch off western Europe supplies on some pretext, say, a Baltic state hasn't paid its gas bill or the Ukraine has been syphoning off gas, etc. Unless they're currently negotiating prices and are reminding the West that it's pretty much a sellers' market.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Cressers.

    Do you ever have something positive to say about the future? Or do you live in perpetual fear?

    Things always seem to be heading towards something worse with you!
    _
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
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  • Weejie54
    Weejie54 Posts: 750
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  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    I have this horrible feeling that Putin and Medvedyev are doing a spot of crisis engineering - ''we need all our gas'' - so that they can up gas export prices. Usually they switch off western Europe supplies on some pretext, say, a Baltic state hasn't paid its gas bill or the Ukraine has been syphoning off gas, etc. Unless they're currently negotiating prices and are reminding the West that it's pretty much a sellers' market.

    OK, I remember the Ukraine one, when the Russians said they were owed over £1bn, but apart from that, when have the Russians cut supplies off to the West? I'm not saying you're wrong on this one, I just can't remember another occasion.

    It's not in their own interest to present themselves as an unreliable trading partner to Western Europe, otherwise our governments will seek out alternative supplies.
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    Only we get our weather from the Atlantic, not Russia.

    Who is behind this forecast? The energy companies ..............
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    johnfinch wrote:
    deptfordmarmoset wrote:
    I have this horrible feeling that Putin and Medvedyev are doing a spot of crisis engineering - ''we need all our gas'' - so that they can up gas export prices. Usually they switch off western Europe supplies on some pretext, say, a Baltic state hasn't paid its gas bill or the Ukraine has been syphoning off gas, etc. Unless they're currently negotiating prices and are reminding the West that it's pretty much a sellers' market.

    OK, I remember the Ukraine one, when the Russians said they were owed over £1bn, but apart from that, when have the Russians cut supplies off to the West? I'm not saying you're wrong on this one, I just can't remember another occasion.

    It's not in their own interest to present themselves as an unreliable trading partner to Western Europe, otherwise our governments will seek out alternative supplies.

    Oooops, I'm going to have to admit to a bit of hyperbole here. The dispute with Belarus didn't actually result in switching the gas off but part 2 of the dispute involved a threat to cut gas off on Jan 1. The alleged superwinter, coincidentally, is scheduled to arrive in January.

    Here's a Quickypedia except on the dispute:
    On 3 April 2006, during the Russia-Belarus energy dispute, Gazprom indicated it would triple the price of natural gas sold to Belarus after December 31, 2006. In December 2006 Gazprom threatened a cut-off of supplies to Belarus at 10 a.m. Moscow time on January 1, 2007, unless it agrees to raise the price it pays for the gas from $47 to $200 per 1,000 cubic metres or to cede control over its distribution network.[48] Some analysts suggested Moscow was penalising Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, for not delivering on pledges of closer integration with Russia,[49] while others noted that other friendly countries like Armenia were paying as much for their gas as Belarus would with the new price levels.[50]

    Later Gazprom requested a price of $105,[51] yet Belarus still refusing the agreement. It responded that if supplies were cut, it would deny Gazprom access to its pipelines, which would hurt gas transportation to Europe.[52] However, on January 1, 2007, just a few hours before the deadline, Belarus and Gazprom signed a last-minute agreement. Under the agreement, Belarus undertook to pay $100 per 1,000 cubic metre in 2007. The agreement also allowed Gazprom to purchase 50% of the shares in Beltransgaz, the Belarusian pipeline network.[53] Immediately following the signing of this agreement Belarus declared a $42/ton transportation tax on Russian oil travelling through the Gazprom pipelines crossing its territory.

    ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazprom#Price_disputes )

    EDIT: reformatted to get the quote inside the quote box!
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    As long as they grit the roads cause then it's ok.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    freehub wrote:
    As long as they grit the roads cause then it's ok.

    We can't afford grit.
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  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    I've bought a new winter jacket so I hope it gets cold enough to wear it at some point!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    I'm thinking of making some XC skis for me and my girlfriend. There's a good park just around the corner to do it in, so hopefully we'll get some of the white stuff.
  • etapechamp
    etapechamp Posts: 81
    buy a trailer for your bike and grit the cycle paths.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    We can afford grit, was cycling in the Peak District tother day and I seen heaps of the stuff.

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