Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Still snowing

A call from DaBoss who was trying to get up to Cleobury Mortimer this morning and has been forced to turn around due to the worsening conditions. As he lives out in the sticks (literally) he's heading directly back home while he can still make it (he has been unable to get out last year) picking up basic staples on the way.

Snow here is now an inch deep.

6 comments:

Orphi said...

I'm damned sure I remember wading through snow knee-deep in 1996, and nobody thought much of it. But today an inch of snow is a catastrophy… what the heck is going on?

It always amuses me when I visit the mountains of Switzerland. Multiple feet of snow, and nobody freaks out. And nobody crashes. Then again, snow tires are required by law…

FlipC said...

And there's the thing. Despite it snowing about this time every year no-one's ever prepared for it.

I've got a scraper in my car boot (which I had to use yesterday) and a can of de-icer which I haven't had to use yet.

I've got gloves in my pocket and a yellowjacket and blanket in the boot. The only thing I've not got is a torch and I tend to stick that in my pocket if I know I'll be driving late.

I've not got far to travel and I'm not going out of my way to travel any distance at the moment. Yet everyone panics at an inch and half of snow which in turn makes the roads more dangerous as everyone piles out at the same time.

Anyway I'm listening to H&W radio, if they tell me Stourport's clear in an hour or so I'm off.

Orphi said...

Apparently it isn't just the UK: VG Cats.

I can still remember the women we helped out of the snow last year. She had a 2 liter Golf, and she seriously thought that the correct way to get out of snow is to floor it as hard as you possibly can. *sigh*

FlipC said...

Oh man I'd forgotten that strip.

But isn't that the correct method of driving? Floor it and spit the snow out until you hit tarmac?

Tales are coming in of jack-knifed lorries and such vehicles attempting the hills at Holt Fleet one of which is a steep-arsed curved trek. Yeah I'll just try to drive my truck up that.

Orphi said...

Ever watched Ice Cold in Alex? They knew how to drive in snow… Well, OK, actually sand, but even so…

FlipC said...

And ironically last night was Ice Truckers on Channel 4