Snow and yourselves

Richie63

Well I thought I'd share some piccys with you all
Last night on the M1


And today in Sheffield


My garden


And Yourselves?

Andy

Theres been practically none in Birmingham so far.

welshkev

a tiny dusting in south wales (well my part anyway) not even worth showing

Northwind

20 inches here... That's on flat bits, not drifts. Which is both awesome and bloody inconvenient! Riding bikes is now basically out on anything but the road, but that's OK because the roads have become comedy technical challenges. I'm not bad on a bike and I can just barely make progress,which is probably why I've not seen another bike out since sunday.

It seems a waste, that's enough snow for 3 decent entertaining falls all frittered away in one massive inconvenient dump!

lawman

barely any in the midlands if im honest, hardly worth the hype

sheepsteeth

just picked wife re up from maidstone as the trains into gillingham are all abandoned or summat.

there are some pish drivers out there, i know the snow and ice mean you have to adjust your driving style but fuck mein alter stiefel!!

supersonic

20 inches in parts of Sheff too. Not that much at my end, but deep, will put a couple of pics up in a bit.

supersonic

Just a few taken from the house:

lovewales

Richie

How long did you get stuck for?? I can see the M1 from the house and between J29 and 30 nothing moved for about 4 hours.

The snow in North Derbyshire was at 2ft at 9:30 this morning and it has continued all day but after digging our way out of the house this morning with a chopping board (because I forgot to take the shovel back out of the car boot when I got home last night :roll: )

Anyways here's what it looked like...







it's been snowing all day and forecast is for it to continue until tea time tomorrow :shock:

El Capitano

welshkev wrote:

a tiny dusting in south wales (well my part anyway) not even worth showing

This.

VWsurfbum

Loads here!
Wife just text me to say she's got 8" i hope she means snow?

Duno why i'm at work really?

Richie63

Lovewales
I left mansfield where I'd stopped off to pick something up at 15.00 and got to the M1 J29 after being stuck at Glapwell hill at 19 30 . Then got stuck on the M1 itself because off the long slope up to Birchwood services , which finally freed up allowing me to arrive back at mine for midnight!! 9hours from Mansfield.

Raymondavalon

OSX 10.6 "Snow Kitty"

cee

as northwind says...we are at nearly 2 feet...and its still falling!

i have been commuting on the bike...its slower than normal, but still faster than the motororised traffic....

Nachimir

We've got about four inches here in Nottingham, and the roads aren't too bad. Just enough to have a bit of fun on nearby trails.

I live among a bunch of suburban hills, and the council tend to give up on gritting them, so there's very little traffic and quite a bit of snow on the roads with iced up tyre treads.

supersonic

60cm now in parts of Sheffield, mad

lovewales

Richie63 wrote:

Lovewales
I left mansfield where I'd stopped off to pick something up at 15.00 and got to the M1 J29 after being stuck at Glapwell hill at 19 30 . Then got stuck on the M1 itself because off the long slope up to Birchwood services , which finally freed up allowing me to arrive back at mine for midnight!! 9hours from Mansfield.

WOW That is a long journey - you must have been one of the ones I was looking at on the M1 and thinking i'm glad it's not me. :shock: the gantry lights have not stopped flashing since the snow started but the traffic is at least moving now.
If you ever have to do that journey again you can go across to Bolsover then down to Duckmanton/Markham Vale at J29a or carry on towards Clowne/Barlborough and onto the M1 at J30, the latter being relativley flat.

Northwind

peter413

Northwind wrote:

The mudguards will be useful in this weather

Richie63

Lovewales
Yeah it all got abit mad that night. I live in the southwest of Sheffield so going in via Chesterfieid is my normal way in. Having the traffic prompts from the radio on it came over that Chesterfield was an ice-rink but the M1 was moving. I thought that by going M1 then along parkway and then ecclesall road in Sheff would get me close enough to home to make walking viable.
The Bolsover route you described was an option and I did drop off at J29a to jump some M1 traffic ( off then on again) but saw that the roads at J29a were hardly used with the northern entry point to the M1 having a stuck artic there.
It was just one of those situations where you were going to catch it whatever!!