Quick snow

7 am went to work in blizzards promised to take the kids out in the
landrover after work there should be about 3ft of snow by then.
4:30pm where's it all bloody gone..

Look north weather man stood in 3ft of it on sutton bank here in Dewsbury
only white on my drive is bird droppings.
Taking the day off next time.
Adrian Ford.

Adrian Ford wrote:
> 7 am went to work in blizzards promised to take the kids out in the
> landrover after work there should be about 3ft of snow by then.
> 4:30pm where's it all bloody gone..
>
> Look north weather man stood in 3ft of it on sutton bank here in
> Dewsbury only white on my drive is bird droppings.
> Taking the day off next time.
> Adrian Ford.

You should try getting from Denholme to Queensbury then mate. Did it on Thursday in a real blizzard. 4 &
5 foot banks of snow with crosswinds making visibility zero!

I was in the Subaru & it performs superbly in snow. Just gotta be a tad careful not to wake up the
turbo!!!! that can get a tad 'hairy'

The quality of driving displayed was terrible though, cars abandoned all over, a mile long queue due to
some poor blokes car getting stuck on a steep hill. Some **** in a Disco comes flying down the outside
only to find his progress blocked by the stuck car. **** puts his left indicator on & tries to get in. He
got told to feck right off the ignorant pig. He must have gone for 1/2mile of standing traffic. Not all
LR drivers have any road manners. I'm still annoyed now!

Nige

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Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

"No, I'm Brian"

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:02:48 -0000, Nige wrote:

> You should try getting from Denholme to Queensbury then mate. Did it
> on Thursday in a real blizzard. 4 & 5 foot banks of snow with
> crosswinds making visibility zero!

Like that just down the road from here
(http://www.howhill.com/weather/photos.html follow the Feb 23/24/25th
links). I'm sure I bounced of the bank at least once getting through.
Also hoping that nothing was coming the other way, single track width
cut by the plough. With the wind and amount of snow in the air it
wouldn't take long to get buried enough to be stuck, even in a Disco.

> The quality of driving displayed was terrible though,

I'm not surprised. Anyone younger than about 30 will never have driven
in serious snow conditions before. People just don't know how to deal
with it. Even some of the people up here havn't much idea and we get
falls of several inches snow every winter so lack of experience can't
be the reason.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail

Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:02:48 -0000, Nige wrote:
>
>> You should try getting from Denholme to Queensbury then mate. Did it
>> on Thursday in a real blizzard. 4 & 5 foot banks of snow with
>> crosswinds making visibility zero!
>
> Like that just down the road from here
> (http://www.howhill.com/weather/photos.html follow the Feb 23/24/25th
> links). I'm sure I bounced of the bank at least once getting through.
> Also hoping that nothing was coming the other way, single track width
> cut by the plough. With the wind and amount of snow in the air it
> wouldn't take long to get buried enough to be stuck, even in a Disco.
>
>> The quality of driving displayed was terrible though,
>
> I'm not surprised. Anyone younger than about 30 will never have driven
> in serious snow conditions before. People just don't know how to deal
> with it. Even some of the people up here havn't much idea and we get
> falls of several inches snow every winter so lack of experience can't
> be the reason.

It was just like that but with the road covered & a howling gale blowing it over the tops of the drifts!

Ages since I saw it like that! ;~)

Nige

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Subaru WRX (The Bitch)

Series 3 Landrover 88" (Albert)

"No, I'm Brian"

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:48:25 -0000, Nige wrote:

> It was just like that but with the road covered & a howling gale
> blowing it over the tops of the drifts!

It was white out for several tens of yards round the corner in the
second photo but it's a tad difficult to photograph a white snow bank
and white spin drift against a white background. B-) Thats why the
corner of the bank is placed against the vehicles so it can be seen.

The snow blower has trundled past in the last hour heading up towards
Teesdale. First time we've seen the snow blower in the 5 years we have
been up here and the first time for a good many years before that as
well.

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I heard it was "good" up Holm Moss area, my boss lives in Queensbury and he
said he hasn't seen it that bad for a long time.

"George Spigot" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> I heard it was "good" up Holm Moss area, my boss lives in Queensbury and
he
> said he hasn't seen it that bad for a long time.
>
>
Well just goes to show what a difference a few miles can make and a (few
hundred yards higher).
It's funny listening the story about the RAC man stuck on the moors whilst
looking out of your window and no snow..

Adrian Ford