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

[Crazy Jane]

Kirkstall Road was at -8.1 last night around 10pm, i don;t imagine it got much warmer after that either.

[Si]

In the store where I work we have to keep the doors open all day. The till is directly in front of them, and to make matters worse, the shop's aircon is stuck on full blast. When not working on the till, I'm up to my elbows in the freezers relaying frozen food. The day before yesterday (Tuesday) the cold was almost unbearable. I'm sure I nearly got frost-bite!

[raveydavey]

Si wrote: In the store where I work we have to keep the doors open all day. The till is directly in front of them, and to make matters worse, the shop's aircon is stuck on full blast. When not working on the till, I'm up to my elbows in the freezers relaying frozen food. The day before yesterday (Tuesday) the cold was almost unbearable. I'm sure I nearly got frost-bite! The minimum legal temperature for a "normal" working environment is 16 degrees Celsius. You should have a word with your H&S rep...     

[Leodian]

The cold weather is making birds look for food where they might rarely do. A small stream runs next to the derilict Alwoodley Motors site on King Lane. When I was walking by on Wednesday around 13:30 there was a heron standing in the shallow water just before the stream runs under King Lane at Nanny Bridge. On seeing me the heron walked upstream a little then flew a few metres further up so I stopped watching and left it to go about whatever it was doing. It was likely looking for food but it is rare to see any fish there (a crayfish was seen by someone else some months back).    

[Crazy Jane]

S-nooooooooooooo-w

[Johnny39]

Leodian wrote: The cold weather is making birds look for food where they might rarely do. A small stream runs next to the derilict Alwoodley Motors site on King Lane. When I was walking by on Wednesday around 13:30 there was a heron standing in the shallow water just before the stream runs under King Lane at Nanny Bridge. On seeing me the heron walked upstream a little then flew a few metres further up so I stopped watching and left it to go about whatever it was doing. It was likely looking for food but it is rare to see any fish there (a crayfish was seen by someone else some months back).     Could be there are a few ornamental fish ponds in the area.

[grumpytramp]

Well I got home to Chateau Grumptramp this afternoon I think about 3.30pm (well Mark Kermode was still ranting on Five Live) in bright sunshine but the temperature in the Ochils was a rather balmy -4 degrees.I immediately hit my bed (to relieve a horrible combination of man-flu and Ashes related sleep deprivation) so it cames a wee bit of a shock when I was woken by my rather geriatric three legged ginger tom cat crying at the front door and a greater one to be greeted by a now white geriatric tom cat and a two foot drift!Its getting really boring; the grounds of Chateau Grumptramp are still covered in over a foot of neve, much of which dates back from November!Anyway out of curiosity I had a wee drift through Leodis on the subject of snow and came accross the gem above.see http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... Apparently taken in 1947 "at the junction of the Coal Road with York Road, with the old Toll House" ........ I spy a windmill!From my perspective its an amazing photos as clearly what is being used to clear the snow is a large bulldozer which must have come from a Ministry of Works opencast coal site somewhere in the East Leeds area (? Parkinson's at Temple Newsam)I am ignorant of antique muckshifting plant, but I can tell that this machine is something akin to a modern Caterpiller D8 dozer (and I could garantee that on my sites that there would be disciplinary action taken against the barmpot on the left riding on the blade) and therefore I dread to think what damage was done to the road pavement!Lots of other great shots of 1947 in Leeds here:http://www.leodis.net/searchResults.asp ... WORDS=snow clearance&KEYWORDS2=&KEYWORDS3=&ANDOR2=&ANDOR3=&RECSPAGE=5&VIEW=1&CURRPAGE=1

[Leodian]

There are great photos through your link grumpytramp of the 1947 snow. Shame that I was then too young to remember the event. I wonder what would happen nowadays if that much and long lasting snow came, as virtually everything now comes to a halt and there seems to be panic if there is only 1cm or even less!

[Trojan]

Leodian wrote: There are great photos through your link grumpytramp of the 1947 snow. Shame that I was then too young to remember the event. I wonder what would happen nowadays if that much and long lasting snow came, as virtually everything now comes to a halt and there seems to be panic if there is only 1cm or even less! I don't think 1947 was a picnic. Although I was alive during it, I was a baby in arms.However, I understand that power cuts were a regular occurence, they couldn't move enough coal from the pits to the power stations because the railways were blocked with snow. Food became short for the same reason, plus of course farmers couldn't dig up their crops - I saw a film of potatoes being lifted with a pneumatic drill. Then there was the post war austerity - after WWII the country was even more broke than it is said to be today, so I don't think that helped.I remember the 1963 freeze, I was due to play Rugby at Mount Pleasant on 22-12-1962, the ground was frozen solid - we didn't play again until mid-MarchSoccer came to a standstill too - the pools panel was introduced. The only RL Challenge Cup tie played on the due date was Cas v Leeds. Cas got the game on by speading sand and burning braziers on their Wheldon Road ground. I went and there wasn't a blade of grass on it. Leeds won 5 -0 I think. Lewis Jones scored at the Railway End. He kicked through, the ball stuck in the mud and Lewis picked it up and put it down under the sticks. The Cas fans snowballed him

[Phill_dvsn]

It's back again.Happy snow day