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I just called my boss and said "sod this for a game of soldiers" I'm staying home as there is at least 3" outside and still snowing, and as I live on a hill I'm not attempting it.

The only car that got up my hill was a 4x4, others have tried and failed.

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It's snowing quite heavily here in Poole, so unusual, we usually miss out! :D

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Ditto Graham.It NEVER snows in Lee-on-Solent but here is the evidence.It must be bad if we have snow...;)

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No snow here in Norway. Just ice... Lots of ice...

You could skate to work!

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Did the same to my lad last night sitting at his PC in his boxers:angel:

Seems i might just need to retract the earlier retraction at this rate:erm:
Looks like the Schools are off for our lot too so at least one of us will need to stay at home today....must find the wife`s hat n scarf.

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No sign of snow in Cornwall, dry and very cold with only a touch of overnight frost.

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Here's the view out of my front door :)

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Apparently the South has had it's worst snowfall for 18 years. :shocked:

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:wtf:

I have never seen so much snow. This is North Surrey :eek:

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Lots of snow here, my chickens will leave lots of little footprints in the garden, they look like arrows :D

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Attachment 17626

Practically 10" here by the look of it.

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Haha excellent :D

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What is it about Britain? The tiniest little bit of snow and everyone's skiving off work and the schools shut. Typical teachers, all Trotskyites. Churchill wouldn't have stood for this.

[OK, I don't *really* think that, but I thought I'd save someone the effort. More snow than I've ever seen in London (7 inches I reckon) and the nipper is getting dressed by himself at 8am to drag me out into it. Sometimes the ability to work from home is a nuisance]

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Quite amusing how Londonites were interviewed on the news this morning seemingly under the impressing that the fact there's snow in their city means the UK has finally had the white stuff for the first time in years :D

And lots of it in South Wales too :D

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Bunch of skiving Attachment 17627

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Snowing well now but only the tiddly stuff! :D

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pics for you from surrey :



https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/91.jpg


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2009/02/92.jpg

daz300

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Justed measured the snow outside my house. 4-1/2" :shocked:

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:confused:

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all fixed now ^^

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200 schools closed in Hampshire.Probably explains why I've not been called by my agency.

Hubby got to work though..but obviously things are tense as he's asked me to get him his daily nicotine fix...:erm:

Trouble is my shoes are leaky.:(

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The big one :D

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the best thing about snow is that i can't get to work! yay!! can't even get the car out of the garage unless we dig it out!!
just been for a lovely walk got some amazing piccies

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Being able to work from home sucks! :(

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Its a pain in the bum if people i work with who live further away from work than me I'll look a plum.

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College closed... in my obvious stupidity, I rang work and asked them if they needed me.

Oh well, extra money and bonus brownie points are always good.

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So far 3 of 15 people have made it to the office. Those with the 4 wheel drive Surrey Tractors are noticeably absent :erm:

So much for public transport too

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I found a hard broom and swept outside the papershop where I work this morning, 5 times (every 20 mins or so - another inch) before the council arrived with some salt.

pretty though! ;)

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Just looked at the list of closed schools(wimps) and noted my local schools bar one(wimps) have all stayed open...

However I'm pleased not to be in school on a snow day..The students will be over excited and will not work and will be sneaking snow into the classrooms...:rolleyes:

Oh a day to be thankful to not be picking up extra cash...

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Attachment 17631

That`s the first time my younger two have ever made a snowman.First time their able to.

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More snow overnight here in sth Manchester. Just been out to check our roof and despite it being lovely and warm inside the house the roof is showing no signs of heat loss and still has a nice even snow blanket.

On a slightly off topic topic. Cable Forum city has had a very high snow fall and anyone who can spare a moment might consider clicking on the following link to help us get enough bodies to sweep the pavements..... :angel:

http://cable-forum.myminicity.com/

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7" in North Hampshire :)
The Blue Tit is wondering what's happened ;)
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1233573715

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Yeah yeah ;) :D

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Pressed enter too soon (I could have made that more smutty :D )

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Starting to melt away here..but someone at the school I'm working at lately has just text me to say the school is now closed.Wimps! :D

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How can it be melting away :confused: It's still falling thickly here.

What I want to know is where I'm going to get my lunch. The sandwich shop hasn't opened up :(

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Well I just walked down the town..half the shops were closed.Thankfully the Co-op was open as was the green grocers and the butchers and bakers.Fresh hot bread...yum.

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you could have gone outside to take the photo you wuss ;)

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Not fair!, been and gone. :(

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8am in NE Hants :)
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1233578854

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Yes, but I can't find the key to the patio door. And at that time I was still in my dressing gown (not a pretty sight).

I did end up walking to work. Only problem was the heavy coat and boots were in the car. There is numpty me out there in 8" of snow in my slippers, shovelling snow off the boot so I could retrieve the kit. Then I remembered I'd brought the boots indoors some three weeks earlier :dunce:

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No comment:D

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Well, in my area, it looks like the panic buying has started. Just been to my local Sainsburys and it's full to the rafters with customers and things like bottled water and milk appear to be running out (although in all fairness, it's possible their daily delivery didn't turn up.

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:hyper: I've got the day off work.

Turned up today and was told to go home. Wahoooo !

I love the snow! I hope it continues snowing.

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Some pics from otside our place earlier today. Still snowing very lightly here and we have two, six foot snowmen in our car park now! :)

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It's sort of coming and going here. One minute the snow's falling thickly, the next the sun's out.

It's settling everywhere but the road so getting to and from places isn't too bad. It's going to be chaos tomorrow when everything freezes though :erm:

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Still falling where I live :D

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I know right, I remember having to go to school in much worse than this.
Me and my brother used to use the sledge. That was only about 20 or so years ago too.

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The other week we had a little snow but got through to take our son to school. We found out later that one of his classmates was kept home 'because of the bad weather and the roads'. Except that we have to drive twice as far as his mother does to get to school, and we drive past his front door. :erm: I think for some people it's an excuse for a day off, or just to not go out, as nobody ever seems to question you when you say you're snowed in.

We had a dusting overnight and it has snowed on and off all day, but the weather is mostly sunny and it's thawing faster than its falling.

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That's a cracking photo!! :tu:

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We have a chair in out garden will 7-1/2" of snow on it.

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Only a couple of inches here in Notts. Plenty enough to play with, as my housemate's car will testify: ;)

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I've got loads of snow here in Bellshill and it's about time too.
Kids have gone out with the sledges and I'm couried under the quilt.

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My back garden looks like a film set, with real snow, its about 5 inches thick.

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Kids are going mad here.

They're whizzing down the slope at the top of the kiddie playground across the road on teatrays, plastic bags and even a few sledges..

That's the slope with a considerable number of mature trees. It's got to end in tears..

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Sorry to be a pedant, but film sets very rarely have real snow on them. :p:

It's normally this stuff:

http://www.snowbusiness.com/media/26229-img_2768.jpg

:D

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We've had a bit more. :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/...38862afa_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/...abbd1859_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/...7be897a9_b.jpg

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pfft, you call that snow :erm:

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What do you call it - bad dandruff? :D

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Looks like it rainning (very fine) here

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Here's a good question for you all, with all the snow expected last night, and today, did anyone see any gritters out, I live in Twickenham, and haven't seen any, in fact if gritters were out last, why was there such a bad travel today, with cars and lorries getting stuck, I was under the impression, that authorities know 24 hours before if there is any bad weather, so why the problem today.

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No road appear to have been gritted near me.

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Hats off to the gritters in North Lanarkshire. They've been round on a very regular basis and they do all side streets too.

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I'm hoping it will snow some more tonight.

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I did say it was a bit of snow. ;)

It's snowing heavily now, so maybe I'll get better photo's tomorrow.

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bah - we have had no more snow. the street sweepers did appear at 7am after me sweeping the pavement, but I did have to ask them to do the path next to the shops (duh) as opposed to the one just around the square :rolleyes:

gritters did appear yesterday afternoon and did the rounds several times, but by the time I went to work at 5.30pm there was no evidence of it at all!? maybe they had a blockage or had run out of grit, :LOL:

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Looks like we had a heavy fall overnight, off out to take some photo's, sunrise in 30 minutes. :D

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Another inch overnight..and some schools off the closed list and some added.

However it's supposedly snowing in Rowner which is the other side of Gosport..

Crazy...

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Nothing overnight here, and most of the snow from yesterday is gone.

The sun's out, and it's a bright new day :)

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Just taken a look at the closed schools list..all bar one of the town's secondary schools are closed.Well that answers why I'm not getting any offers of work...Not that I'd have an easy job of getting anywhere with no transport.:erm:

I may just go back to bed...

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Now this is snow!!! 6 inches of it in Port Talbot!

The first pic is what we had yesterday, the blueish one was taken earlier this morning.

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Oh bum it's snowing again.5 minutes ago it was sunny...:(

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It thawed enough last night to reduce our coverage to around 8" from 10+" thick. However the overnght frost has made the side roads and paths extremely slippery even though most busier roads seem OK. Most have made it to the office today, with a notable eceptioin so far of one of the bosses. On the other hand if you had a Porshe, would you try driving in ice, they are uncontrollable at the best of times :erm: They can't even be bothered to get the trains running properly, or even at all on the local line, and the schools remains shut, maybe he's got a good excuse.

Now to see what happens as temperatures rise a bit. There's a hint of the occasional flurry, but nothing that's going to make any difference. Indeed it's so sunny out there you need protection from the glare.

We're told this lot has cost the economy a small fortune. We're also told that we can't plan for a once in 20 years event. But the reality is that every time it snows or get's freezing cold things grind to a halt. We aren't a third world country (although the way Gordon Brown is spending our money propping things up we could well become one when he bankrupts us), so we should be able to do better, especially when one looks at the balance sheet of losses versus expenditure.

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Turning to sleet..Lovely! <sarcastic mode>

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I want it to snow some more. We need more snow. I've done the snowman, but I now need more snow to build his wife and children.

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:hyper: We got it! Started last night, and continued again this morning. It's so beautiful!

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Is it just me, or does the speed limit sign in the first picture look photoshopped in?

:D

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Perhaps the camera had the flash on and the sign is showing it's reflective properties :confused:

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It'sd probably the bounce off the flash.

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The sign has definitely caught the camera flash, and has then fallen victim to the fairly high degree of JPEG compression that has been applied to the picture.

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A photo of the snow yesterday.... It's a shame it's melting now.


http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1233659209

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Nope, must be the flash. Only adjustment is the brightness/colour.

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Talking of flashes, we just had thunder and lightening with our snow :spin:

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Well, it took two hours (thanks to South Eastern's farcical attempt at running a Railway), but I got in to work.

Why is it that the public transport systems in London failed totally to cope with this? Boris Johnson and the various Transport authorities have blamed the snow, but I am fairly certain that the old, nationalised, transport companies (like British Rail) actually managed to cope with things like this..

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Do you mean British 'wrong kind of snow' Rail?

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Answer 1)
Pay a lot more in taxes and ticket prices for the equipment to deal with these rare occurrences.

Answer 2)
Accept that these things happen from time to time and adapt to cope with them.

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I can't recall any situation where they shut down every route from Kent to London...

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We've had Snow a few times in Winter over the last two or three years. Not frequent, but not rare either. Besides, hasn't yesterday's shutdown been estimated to have cost the Economy about £3 billion? That's more than enough to pay for a few snow ploughs..

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Do many of us have M&S tyres on our car and chains in the boot? I'd wager very few. It's simply not worth it, is it.

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I didn't know Marks and Spencers did tyres:dunce:

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Well that was a fun time, got caught in a blizzard on the foreshore, now the tops of my fingers are tingling. Kept taking the gloves off to take photo's.
When I got home I found five inches of snow in the side pockets of my backpack. :D

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltawh...7613276997579/

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Well brilliant sunshine and most of the snow has melted.

However looking at the Hampshire animated weather maps, more snow is forecast this pm..

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Well - I just tried going out in it. The sunlight has made it all far to bright for me so I needed my cane (which i dropped in my new not yet set kitchen floor whilst retrieving) I got to the end of the road before I fell on my bum.

Nuts to it, I think I'm staying in 'till it's all gone. :(

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You need these!

http://www.algeos.com/images/pro.jpg

http://www.algeos.com/html/products/retail/yaktrax.htm

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I slipped on my back pretty badly this morning. Was alking slowly too, went up in the air and flat on my back. My glasses flew off. I was in a daze. To make matters worse a woman behind me slipped on the same spot and fell on my glasses, luckily they are only bent and not snapped.

My head still hurts, as does the back of my shoulders.

to make matters worse my daughter just phoned me crying because birds had eaten the eyes out of my snowman. that will teach me to use cherries to give my snowman a manic look lol.

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Wow thats some impressively tall snowman!

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Those two had been up since 2am building it, I know the snowman's name is Clive but I forgot to ask them their names. I blame the cold slowing down what passes for my mind.

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This will make you laugh, where I work they had a gritter come round putting loads of grit.

5 minutes later a snow plough came round and cleared the snow and grit.

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oh dear... sounds like something my local council would do. :erm:

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I was also this by a woman at work.

A teacher at her daughters slipped on the snow and knocked herself out, the head saw this and went running to her aid he also slipped and landed on her (a scene that was described looking like a prono movie) breaking his wrist in the process.

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Well, we seem to be finally getting some significant snowfall here. Only problem is, we had a very wet day yesterday followed by a cloudless night and the ground is now frozen hard. The snow is sticking and building up very quickly. We could be in a spot of bother here ... :disturbd:

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All my snow is gone :(
1 day then the rain washed it all away, now it's really cold and icy.