Snow thread - anyone else snowed in

[Motown Fox]

Sheffield and most of South Yorkshire is snowed in and it is still snowing and blizzard conditions in parts.

There are no buses, trains are limited and just the main routes on the trams. The main roads are just about passable with care but most are hazardous or inpassable littered with abandoned cars, HGV's etc. The sideroads well forget about them, 2 feet of snow, more in some places.Our neighbour and her dog just went for a walk and you couldn't see the dog unless he jumped up!!

300 Schools are closed and the Universities, and the hospitals have cancelled ALL appointments and only if you really have a real emergency should you try and go in.

My young daughter has just braved the snow to walk to the local shop for milk and it was up to her knees!!

The car is covered and I will not be going anywhere in it today that is for sure.

 

[LCFCmonkey]

Is it me or does Leicester never get it that bad?

 

[Hazzman]

Leicester's not too bad. I've never missed a day's work through it, I walk if it's not worth taking the car but I am lucky a walk is just 1 and half miles away.

I'd be much appreciated if anyone can tell what it's like towards Huncote, supposed to play footy there tonight but if the roads are dodgy that way, I won't bother.

 

[pork pie fox]

My daughter's school is still open but it's one of the few to be open around here. It seemed to be the Melton, Loughborough and NW Leics areas that had more schools closed on the radio earlier.

Some bloke from the council said:
"Because of the amount of snow in the Melton area we're calling out some of the farmer contractors we have to help us on the minor roads, so we've had a pretty busy night."
Good old farmers

 

[thebluefox]

South Leicestershire had a tiny covering last night, now at work in Oakham and they've not had any this morning. A lot of people who live in Melton/Coalville/Markfield haven't made it in yet though.

Funnily enough Hazzman, I've just rang Huncote to cancel our pitch tonight and they said that it was unlikely they'll be opening the courts anyway so its worth ringing them. Even though there's not much snow its very icy.

 

[Motown Fox]

View from my front door

 

[pork pie fox]

:icon_eek: That's good snow Motown

 

[thebluefox]

Ruddy nora!

 

[homer]

South Leicestershire had a tiny covering last night, now at work in Oakham and they've not had any this morning. A lot of people who live in Melton/Coalville/Markfield haven't made it in yet though.

There's hardly any snow in Co'ville and the main roads are fine - just a bit of ice on the minor roads

Might I suggest that they are part of the skiving bastard any-excuse-to-have-time-off brigade

 

[H T B]

Global warming?






Someone had too :icon_roll

 

[Hazzman]

Funnily enough Hazzman, I've just rang Huncote to cancel our pitch tonight and they said that it was unlikely they'll be opening the courts anyway so its worth ringing them. Even though there's not much snow its very icy.

No surprise. One of the other lads I played with rang yesterday and Huncote said they would give us a ring around 4. We're on the 3G pitch...apparently it doesn't not freeze which is horsecrap and suspect the centre will avoid anyone using the car park if at all possible.

 

[drummindefender]

Our road got gritted for the bin men today-can't complain!

 

[Motown Fox]

View from Conservatory window to back wall

 

[pds]

Leicester's not too bad. I've never missed a day's work through it, I walk if it's not worth taking the car but I am lucky a walk is just 1 and half miles away.

I'd be much appreciated if anyone can tell what it's like towards Huncote, supposed to play footy there tonight but if the roads are dodgy that way, I won't bother.

Some of the roads are a bit dodgy - Huncote Road is very icey and they have blocked one side of the road and put in temporary traffic lights because of a huge puddle that had turned to ice.

 

[fitz]

Canny bit of snow here, don't think its stopped in the last 6 days

 

[Darth Vodka]

central London has no snow, for a change

feckin cold though

 

[bocadillo]

We had a couple of inches of laying snow on Sunday but none of what has fallen since has stayed around at all. That was until last night.

As I went to bed last night, it was snowing heavily and beginning to lay. Waking up this morning there is between 6 and 8 inches of the stuff. Just opened the kitchen door to let the dog out; she took one look at the snow that fell into the kitchen, looked worriedly at me and said she could hold it for a couple of hours yet.

I'm supposed to have a hospital appointment in Deal today. I think I can forget about that.

Back to bed!

 

[Motown Fox]

We had a couple of inches of laying snow on Sunday but none of what has fallen since has stayed around at all. That was until last night.

As I went to bed last night, it was snowing heavily and beginning to lay. Waking up this morning there is between 6 and 8 inches of the stuff. Just opened the kitchen door to let the dog out; she took one look at the snow that fell into the kitchen, looked worriedly at me and said she could hold it for a couple of hours yet.

I'm supposed to have a hospital appointment in Deal today. I think I can forget about that.

Back to bed!

As your dog can talk perhaps you can ask her to ring in and cancel. Perhaps she can tell them you're feeling a bit rufffffff:icon_bigg

 

[homer]

Waking up this morning there is between 6 and 8 inches

Yeah right :icon_roll

 

[tedfoxxx]

Global warming?






Someone had too :icon_roll

Climate change.