Originally Posted by MartJ

Well I remember the winter of 1962-63, it started snowing just before Christmas and snow was on the ground until the beginning of March. I remember pictures of the sea freezing of the coast of Kent. Where I lived at the time we had almost 3 foot of snow and I still went to school everyday, no school closures then, even though the outside loos froze up, we had an arrangement with local pub to use theirs in emergency.

Parts of the country were cut off for weeks and it was the whole of the UK that got the snow and ice, with the South East I think getting a fall of just over 2 ft.

The temperatures were below freezing most days and we had no double glazing or central heating, with ice forming on inside of windows. Most people still went to work, usually walking as most people then living close to their place of work.

So if this winter is to be worse than that it has alot to live up to and if does come it will cause chaos on a scale not seen before as most people would not know how to cope.