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It's not something that ever really crosses my mind, as we live in Nottingham where snow never normally sticks.
But this evening we went round to a friends for dinner, only a 20 minute drive away. And it snowed non-stop... We just had to walk home! We borrowed scarves and hats and carrier bags to line our silly non-snow suitable shoes (as we'd driven there we wouldn't need warm clothes would we?) and it took us an hour, with luckily only one slippage on trent bridge on the way. We passed an abandoned bus skewed across both lanes of the road at one point.
The point is, I always think the advice about blankets and shovels and chocolates is for people driving a long way from home, but this was along a main gritted bus-route road and we still couldn't even get out of the parking space with 3 people pushing the car. So, y'know, be prepared and be careful people! I'm at least putting my walking shoes in the boot next time :S
It had better melt soon, I want my car back...
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 11:32 PM
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Posted 04 February 2012 - 11:39 PM
Glad you made it home safely. Being a northern tier state resident with a Lapplander background I fully understand.
The way a crow shook down on me the dust of snow from a hemlock tree,
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 02:34 AM
I made a great big snowball on the way home from the pub, about a mile's walk, and now it's in the garden!!! Maybe tomorrow I'll get to work on a snowman....but not before I go down to the woods and take pretty pictures of the trees that look like coral. Beautiful stuff!
Oh, and it was my Chinese friend's first experience of snow!!!!!
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 08:22 AM
Pfft, silly UK regulations not making snow tyres compulsory.
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Posted 05 February 2012 - 11:05 PM
my car hates the snow. its too low so every time i hit a bump im drifting and counter steering! :/
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 02:26 PM
I had to walk from somewhere in London back to harrow, (about 8miles in total according to my phone) because the bus refused to go any further and the tubes stopped! I of course was not wearing snow suitable clothing. The slightest whisper of snow from now on and I am living in skiing gear!!
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 02:40 PM
spannz15, on 06 February 2012 - 02:26 PM, said:
I had to walk from somewhere in London back to harrow, (about 8miles in total according to my phone) because the bus refused to go any further and the tubes stopped! I of course was not wearing snow suitable clothing. The slightest whisper of snow from now on and I am living in skiing gear!!
whoa! thats pretty rough!
trick is to keep your head warm, as soon as the cold hits it you'll get tired feel dog rough (ruf?)
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Posted 06 February 2012 - 06:51 PM
GJ Drought, on 06 February 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:
whoa! thats pretty rough!
trick is to keep your head warm, as soon as the cold hits it you'll get tired feel dog rough (ruf?)
trick is to keep your head warm, as soon as the cold hits it you'll get tired feel dog rough (ruf?)
aye luckily i had a decent hoodie on so i wacked that over my head and got cracking. Poor Joshy had nowt tho he was like a lil snow man or ginger yeti thing by the time we got back.
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Posted 08 February 2012 - 07:49 AM
GJ Drought, on 05 February 2012 - 11:05 PM, said:
my car hates the snow. its too low so every time i hit a bump im drifting and counter steering! :/
A few years back when I had the Smart Roadster, I drove from Edinburgh to Birmingham and back in the snow one weekend to see Janey.
It coped remarkably well despite being a tiny, rear-wheel drive go-kart, but I wasn't keen on being more or less invisible to lorries on the M6.
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