Snow! Am I the only one who has had enough?

[cnosni]

Tried to post a pic,but once again to no availbut heres a link anywayhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cnosni/5226966625/

[grumpytramp]

Well up here in the Big County I spent my entire afternoon digging my car out of the surrounding 5' deep drifts (in anticipation that Perth & Kinross Council are due to send a plough in this direction tomorrow ........ just as well as my last onion and bottle of ale have just been consumed). Having shifted approximately 40m3 of snow out of curiousity I dug a few trial pits in my garden and the surrounding fields ........ the average depth of snow away from any drifts is 28" and its only the beginning of December!For all my snow excavation efforts I was rewarded with the perfect winters sunset over Chateau Grumpytramp!

[chameleon]

grumpytramp wrote: Well up here in the Big County I spent my entire afternoon digging my car out of the surrounding 5' deep drifts (in anticipation that Perth & Kinross Council are due to send a plough in this direction tomorrow ........ just as well as my last onion and bottle of ale have just been consumed). Having shifted approximately 40m3 of snow out of curiousity I dug a few trial pits in my garden and the surrounding fields ........ the average depth of snow away from any drifts is 28" and its only the beginning of December!For all my snow excavation efforts I was rewarded with the perfect winters sunset over Chateau Grumpytramp! Tried to resist but I have to ask Grumpy - did the trial pits end up as drift mines.......

[Richard A Thackeray]

I work for the 'big Hospital' in Wakefield, & have my 'ticket' for JCB (ie; front end loader) & agricultural tractors, so for the past 2 winters have been in call for using our machinery to plough/grit the access/service roads around the grounds.However, this past week was a bit tiring Monday 29th;I did a late shift, & then ran home (got in @ 22:20) . . . . Phone rang @ 23:15, back at work for 23:30 . . .. Still there ploughing/gritting until 02:30. . . . Came home....... went back to bed . . . Tuesday 30th;Phone rang again @ 04:15, there for 04:30 . . . . Stayed till 06:30 . . . . Came home, got to bed by 08:30 (with waking Joanne, & 'small-child' up for school) . . . . Phone rang again @10:00 . . . . At work for 10:30, stayed on tractor till my own shift started @ 14:00 . . . . Fairly quiet, so left early @ 20:00...... in bed for 20:35 . . . . Phone rang @ 22:10 . . . . Back to work for 22:30 (to the incredulous comments of the night-shift) . . . . Stayed till 01:30 . . . Wednesday 1stAlarm went off at 04:30, for my own early shift . . . . Ran to work, to wake myself up - got caught all sorts of names on arrival . . . . Left @ 13:00, & ran home...... Thankkfully, I've not been called-out again, but I'm still on-call till midnight (as I write this)And I know the next thing will be to 'fight' for the payments to be made, as no-one will want to sign my On-Call Hours Sheet (I'm still owed 251 hours 'stand-by' money from the beginning of November!) If I'm not paid, there'll be no more gritting, as no-one will be able to find any of the machinery keys (till the snow melts) Every day, apart from Tuesday, I ran to work, & my Fell-Running shoes (Inov-8 'Mud-Claw330') have worked brilliantly in the snow!Once again, like last winter, our XKR's staying safely in the garage, as driving that would be tempting fate.The 'blue-van' is needed by SWMBO, & sadly was 'forced' to part with the 110 in February....So.... this week, I've had my mothers ratty old 1.0litre Corsa (on a 'R' plate), it's got skinny little 145x13 tyres, & weighs just about 'bugger all'.Therefore it 'floats' on top of the snow, but has sufficient ground-pressure to dig in enough.It's gone past stuff like X5's/Shoguns that are just sitting there spinning tyres, got me to the Hospital (up & down 1-in-12 hills), in 4" of fresh snow, with 50 yards visibility, & not a slip in sight - including stopping at traffic-lights on a hump-backed bridge over the Aire & Calder Canal!Think about it, when you see events like the Finnish round of the World Rally Championship on TV, they're on little narrow tyres... okay, studded, but narrow for the ability to 'dig-in'

[chameleon]

Know what you mean Rich, daughter sails 35 miles to Airedale Gen. in her Aygo, my heavy Vectra struggles to make the main road

[Uno Hoo]

Years ago I had a Citroen 2CV. Big wheels with narrow tyres - in the long snowy winter of 1979/80 it never let me down, went up the steepest hills, never got stuck anywhere. It was frequently the only thing moving. Heater was lousy, though.

[amber]

Beware Polar Bears. My wife wasn't aware they were there but I saved her

[Leodian]

amber wrote: Beware Polar Bears. My wife wasn't aware they were there but I saved her That photo made me I've tried to work out where it was taken, but despite clues in the photo I did not succeed (it may not even be in this country!). For some reason I suddenly fancy a glacier mint!

[dogduke]

Leodian wrote: amber wrote: Beware Polar Bears. My wife wasn't aware they were there but I saved her That photo made me I've tried to work out where it was taken, but despite clues in the photo I did not succeed (it may not even be in this country!). For some reason I suddenly fancy a glacier mint! Would I be 'warm' if Iguessed Iceland ?

[amber]

dogduke wrote: Leodian wrote: amber wrote: Beware Polar Bears. My wife wasn't aware they were there but I saved her That photo made me I've tried to work out where it was taken, but despite clues in the photo I did not succeed (it may not even be in this country!). For some reason I suddenly fancy a glacier mint! Would I be 'warm' if Iguessed Iceland ? You are "hot"Dogduke . I Took the photo in Reykjavik old town last June it was a pleasant 18 centigrade