Anyone got snow ??

Still snowing here - we had a lot of wind too so drifts of about 2ft in places. Saw someone trying to snowboard down the hill by our house this morning. Unsuccessfully I might add.

i drove from Peterborough to Maidstone last night, all fine until I hit Stansted and it turned totally white. As usual, despite the warnings, the councils were out too late with the gritters and the M11 was only 2 lanes of queues so I made tracks in the outside lane at about 15mph. M25 shut between M11 and the bridge, so ended up driving into east London. A13 shut at Barking due to major accident, so drove round Ilford, Dagenham and onto A13 near the bridge, kept moving but literally making my own tracks in fresh powder (shame it was in the car and not on my skis).
M25 2 lanes open last night on kent side, M20 the same, came off at Aylesford and the A20 was a whiteout, with minor roads impassable. My friends live up a hill, so the last 15 minutes of my journey was an experience, lots of wheels spinning and sideways movements.
Got my head down for a nights sleep, ready for a 10am meeting in Chessington, but another 4 inches overnight and the roads locally were a nightmare. Got onto M20 which was 2 lanes moving, and up to M25, which came to a grinding halt as soon as I was on it.
I did 14 miles from leaving in 3 hours, and 11 miles of that was moving until I hit the queue. Lorry had jacknifed up at J8 Reigate and it was gridlock, not helped by more snow falling heavily all morning. M25 was a car park so I got off at J6 and headed back the other way, said goodnight to the meeting and came home.
Car park at Clackett Lane services was good fun, no one there but lots of thick snow to handbrake turn in!
Hardly any cars on the road by early afternoon, just lorries. Snowing heavily across Surrey, Kent and Essex still, and now moved up into Cambs and Lincs too. Its slightly above freezing so its not settling yet, but that will change just in time for everyone coming home from work.

What a waste of a day, sat in the car. A little bit of snow and the UK comes to a grinding halt.
I heard a plane slipped off the runway at Heathrow earlier in the snow.
How come I have flown into Innsbruck in feet of snow and everything is ok?

Councils dont know how to prepare the roads, people dont heed the warnings and not make unessential journeys, and when they do experience the snow, they dont know how to drive in it.

:roll:

The council dont how to prepare Jack S**T Tony and as for nugget
driver`s OH firm sent him to Newcastle this morning.
Only the first lane was drivable but toss pots were tearing down the other two lanes that were white over.

One chap raced down the second lane only to be passed by my OH 5 mins later when he was side on to the central reservation,Rather red faced he was but luckily in one piece.



AJ Adele

it was amazing timing last night, landed at stansted from edinburgh at 6:15 and then it started coming down! 25cm here in hertfordshire now.

mr a couldn't get the car out of the driveway this morning, he managed to get on a train though which impressed me. lord only knows how/if/when he'll get home though.

the kids have been in the garden all day, they're hoping school will be closed again tomorrow. it's looking likely, the snow's still coming down

How was your weekend out in Edinburgh?

fab thanks to everyone's suggestions. the highlight was the Jam House on saturday, brilliant night :mrgreen:

getting a bit wprried about the sheffied reports, I am on a course over snakes pass friday saturday hope it caolms down by then, I must work in they onky flaming school whose moto is "We don't close for snow"" bummer had to walk in cause im not too far away. still snowing in mansfield so hopefully we will finally get the call fromsenior leaders at 7am whether we are in or not, Bournemouth bad i heard had to phone our engineers come and fix dinner system and they all at home snowed in, so our casnteen was hell at dinner time.

I built a kicker outside my house so me and my mate are off to hit it very shortly!