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flowjoe
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Post: # 57230Post flowjoe

I did see a bit of the white stuff myself yesterday.

Andover back to gods country 9.5 hours, 1 mile in four hours through Brum after they shut the M5, didnt see a plough or gritter on the A road diversion.

Did we not have an empire that stretched across the bloody world at one time. it didn`t snow after mid afternoon in the midlands and it was gridlock up to 2pm this morning.

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Post: # 57232Post bobbi o

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michaelthegardener
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Post: # 57266Post michaelthegardener

light snow forcast today ............. light snow my arse
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and this is the main road :-?
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seen the blokes i know from the council going about with grit on a transit tipper and with the tractor a bloody big trailer and one shovel :-? dunno where there going though :-/

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Post: # 57268Post haggistini

2 ft in the valleys today took this passing in a van about 40 mph i was'nt driving

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Post: # 57269Post Pablo

Micheal that's just a dusting I've got about 14" of the stuff just now and more's on the way. Went skiing in the moonlight tonight down the field and used my nephew on a quad to haul me back up was mighty craic.
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 57270Post michaelthegardener

helped a council worker get his automatic merc sprinter out of the road earlyer at me mums he pulled in for someone an span round :0 ended up reverseing down the road an its not exactly short :p

yep it may be a dusting but under it is the ice from the day before i aint risking the van in it i know other people have it worse though ........

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Post: # 57272Post haggistini

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dear santa.......
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Post: # 57277Post Suggers

Pablo wrote:Went skiing in the moonlight tonight down the field and used my nephew on a quad to haul me back up was mighty craic.

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Managed 3 turns in the back field - walked back up just the once more. Wish just a little steeper -
We demand photo evidence from Pab for midnight naked skiing..? :cool:
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M5 motorway yesterday morning in Somerset

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And look what I spotted!

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Went out for a ride on my MTB, there's nothing like riding a virgin first thing in the morning.....sorry that should have read "There's nothing like riding through virgin snow first thing..........."

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A38 twixt Wellington & Taunton was impassable

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It was bloody cold the night before

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Mustn't forget our feathered friends.....

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Went to check on the olds, made sure they had the heat on etc - as you can see, all was well.

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After all the fun out in t'snow, my boy was rather tired!!

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Post: # 57296Post 47p2

I don't know, you get a few inches of snow down south and the world grinds to a halt

We've had this weather for over 5 weeks now
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Gotta love clueless drivers - they buy a car and fail to put the snow chains/socks on the driven wheels LOL

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Post: # 57298Post GB_Groundworks

in extremes you can put the chains on the steering axles but obviously you need them on the drive axles as well

it didnt get about -9 all day yesterday, nothing wanted to start blow torches and easy start and a 24v boost from the js130's for all the 12v stuff

dozer and older js130 welded to the ground wont move tracks frozen solid with mud etc,

dad got called out on sunday morning in the 3cx to clear the snow rd sale sharks rugby ground so they could play.

our stock piles of soil are frozen solid have to use toothed bucket and comes up like concrete in big lumps.

still white out here in south yorks/derbyshire has been for 5 or 6 weeks

thursday last week, started off an ok day, then nasty big cloud

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then wet horrible snow

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driving to work 1400ft looking down the hope valley towards manchester the old old blue circle now lafarge cement plant just in view.

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our yard this morning
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c.b.a. supposed to be jet washing two driveways cant see the point
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