Snow ! - Page 124

02-12-2010, 09:31

Just tried for more than 30 minutes to get my car out of our cul de sac onto the main road - including Mrs Gaz doing sterling work with a shovel - to no avail.

In fact I barely managed to get it back into our driveway & nearly ended up with it stuck in the middle of the road!

Paul K · 02-12-2010, 10:14

We have the same problem here, we all have to kerb park as it's a narrow one way street, unfortunately this mean everyone starts off trying to move their cars off an icy kerb onto an icy road surface with very little space between the cars in front and parked on the other side of the road. Add the speed cushions on the road and then the speed tables each end surrounded by solid metal bollards and our street is a disaster waiting to happen.
Start of the year someone lost their front bumper and one front wing to the bollards.... not gonna risk it until their is less ice on the tables. Busses till then but unfortunately the footpaths are completely iced over, don't get any grit, have little foot traffic at the moment to break up the surface and are a complete death trap.

Niles Crane · 02-12-2010, 10:17

No work for me today, either...........

DocDutch · 02-12-2010, 11:02

am very jealous of some of the pics I've seen.... we have only got tiny snow flakes dropping here and its not settleing either

02-12-2010, 11:08

I'm getting sick of it now ,no work for a week this stuff needs to disappear sharpish

sherer · 02-12-2010, 11:09

seems they've cancelled most of the buses in Kent so struggling to get to work, had some worked stacked up I can do from home just in case this happened.

tweetiepooh · 02-12-2010, 12:32

Started around 10 last night. Around 5cm by midnight, good 20cm by morning.

And the kids' school, OPEN!!. About the only school open locally. Since I need to work from home it's nice and quiet.

Paul K · 02-12-2010, 12:36

Same here and it's still trying to snow now. Hopefully it will stop at some point otherwise tomorrow is looking a bit dicey as well.

**Chris** · 02-12-2010, 12:37

We've had no new snowfall worth speaking of since we were treated to about 18" of it on Sunday. But since then it has been very, very cold, and as those vehicles that can move on our road have done so, they have created something of an ice pan. Access is actually getting more and more difficult now. Going down some of the hills round here (1st gear, low ratio engaged) is hairy to say the least ... I slid part way down a couple of them on the school run this morning. But then, coming back up them with the engine screaming and the car skidding about is lots of fun.

Paul K · 02-12-2010, 12:41

It's supposed to drop well below zero around the London area tonight, what is on the ground at that point will be ice in the morning. It's already iced up badly so tomorrow will be a nightmare if it happens as we are still expected to get into work as long as it's "safe" to do so.
You would think that living near the capital would actually mean proper gritting and planning but hey.....

02-12-2010, 13:52

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Originally Posted by Paul

It's supposed to drop well below zero around the London area tonight, what is on the ground at that point will be ice in the morning. It's already iced up badly so tomorrow will be a nightmare if it happens as we are still expected to get into work as long as it's "safe" to do so.
You would think that living near the capital would actually mean proper gritting and planning but hey.....

problem is though the salt doesn't work under -6-7 and it needs a regular traffic flow for the salt to be effective .If as you say that the roads have already iced up then the salt will not be anywhere as effective

cookie_365 · 02-12-2010, 14:00

Duvet day for me today

**Chris** · 02-12-2010, 17:20

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Originally Posted by martyh

problem is though the salt doesn't work under -6-7 and it needs a regular traffic flow for the salt to be effective .If as you say that the roads have already iced up then the salt will not be anywhere as effective

Very true. We got our first gritter visit this afternoon - it has changed the outlook on our road from 'death trap' to 'risk of injury' IMO. Still very much 4x4s only.

**Maggy** · 02-12-2010, 17:27

OH is gearing up to drive to work tonight.He's going a whole hour early for a 4 mile journey.

haydnwalker · 02-12-2010, 17:28

I managed to request via our councils website that they grit the main road near our street and also asked them to provide a bag of grit so i can make our street safe to walk on...

The reply was promising, but not holding my breath.