Snow !

[iFrankie]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6978849.ece

looks scary!

[Delta Whiskey]

No snow fall today, the roads are clear though the pavements are still icy. I went over to Brynmill Park to take some video http://bit.ly/DucksOnIce and some photos http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=bryn...=7944055%40N08

[Hom3r]

truck drifting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lbTB1jqtn0

Where's the ol' bill when you need them.

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I will never complain about the cold ever again

COLDEST RECORDED PLACES
Vostok, Antarctica: -89.2C (78°27′51.92″S 106°50′14.38″E)
Oymyakon, Russia: -71.1C
Verkhoyansk, Russia: -67.7C
Snag, Yukon, Canada: -63C
Prospect Creek, Alaska, US: -62.1C

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8445831.stm

[sherer]

I was just reading that article. Was thinking it would be cool to visit these places one winter and see how they coped.

Used to work in Denmark and Sweden and they never had any problems at all no matter how much snow there was

[Osem]

Originally Posted by sherer

I was just reading that article. Was thinking it would be cool to visit these places one winter and see how they coped.

Used to work in Denmark and Sweden and they never had any problems at all no matter how much snow there was

I'm sure the UK would cope far better if this sort of thing was a more regular event. I'm told, by people who claim to know far more about these things than I do, that in Scandinavia the winter tyres have metal studs and cause a great deal of damage to the roads which have to be regularly resurfaced at great cost.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Hom3r

truck drifting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lbTB1jqtn0

Cool

[Hiroki]

A little bit of snow falling currently in Gateshead. I'm actually enjoying it and have took a fair few photos

[sherer]

Originally Posted by Osem

I'm sure the UK would cope far better if this sort of thing was a more regular event. I'm told, by people who claim to know far more about these things than I do, that in Scandinavia the winter tyres have metal studs and cause a great deal of damage to the roads which have to be regularly resurfaced at great cost.

yes you are right they have to put them on at a certain time of year but if the weather is mild it makes the roads bad. I had to explain the same thing to my friend that this is freak weather for us rather than the norm, just a shame we can't do a little but better at it

Well the local schools are closed for a third day tomorrow..

[Zee]

302 bus

[LondonRoad]

...well if you're crashing your bus you're as well aiming for a shop with a surgery sign.

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Frankie07

looks scary!

More upto date pic on the BBC website from 7th Jan

[altis]

Things are getting serious here - the extremities of the house are frozen!

All the pipes in the (unheated) scullery are frozen, there's a suspicious puddle under the washer and the large radiator at the front of the house is stone cold. The pipes to it run along the front wall - just above the air bricks. I've given the pipe a wiggle and there seems to be a crackling noise so I guess that's frozen too.

Our solitary 3kW fan heater is doing a poor job in the scullery at the moment. Just hope there aren't too many leaks when it's all unfrozen again. Fortunately, all our pipes are plastic so we may be lucky.

It was below -16C in nearby Woodford on both the last two nights.

Originally Posted by Kymmy

More upto date pic on the BBC website from 7th Jan

That's exactly the same photo - just bigger.

[Raistlin]

We've just been told that 'Due to the Met Office Forecast' our entire site (some couple thousand people) will be shut at 1400hrs today and we are all required to leave and go home.....