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Fuck me.....everything closed....schools shut....roads at a standstill....

Not in my day.....

Can't believe I saw a tart driving and texting in this weather. Unbeliavable

On the upside it means I have a day off work!  :beers:

Yup. If I were at work now I'd be sat in the refectory drinking tea and most likely reading about snow.

Beautiful clear weather up here in the north of Scotland.  :D

Took my missus to work this morning, that was fun driving about, fucking sliding everywhere.
"Working" from home today

has it snowed then?

No snow down here in Torquay just off to the beach !!!

Yep I couldn't stop at the first roundabout despite going at a sensible crawling pace. 2nd one I got to I just about got the car stopped.

Traction control was going nuts even in a straight line, high gear, low revs. Thought fuck this and went home.

Work have told everyone who isn't very local to go home. I'd have made the 40 mile journey for nothing so pleased with my decision.

Cars getting stuck-sliding on croft-vic hill apparantly. I have to go to Coventry later should be fun.won't be found up the stow road today.

Kingshill and Vic Hill were more or less gridlocked an hour ago...snow is getting worse. Don't know why people just don't walk.

TO be fair the roads are far worse than I imagined. Lots of cars wheel spinning, gridlock from Moredon->Thamesdown drive. Glad I didn't bother trying to get in now.

Snow should start to break in an hour or two.

I walked to work. The office is like a ghost town.

Bollocks to namby pamby, it's fucking treacherous on the roads. I'm at work (19 miles each way). Ain't got a fucking clue how I get home.

Where's that panic button when you need it...? 

To be fair the A420 is a nightmare. People are also struggling to get up the hill on Thamesdown drive going away from asda.

broken from yesterday

I await with glee the first news footage of madly wheel-spinning BMW's going backwards down a hill.

They always have it and it always makes me laugh.

Tried to get the bus to devizes. Took 15 minutes to get up vic hill sideswiping a tree on the way, cracking one of the windows. Got a call once I got to the top telling me no to bother, which was fortunate as the bus was going no further anyway.

Had to walk to the town center to get the bus home, which was fun in the flattest, most rubber-soled shoes known to man. Got the bus then had to walk most of the way anyway because akers way was a standstill.

And that was the story of the day I didn't go to work.

Hopefully no arrivals at work tonight then...

No staff either I expect...

go to the daily mail site, they love all that sort of shit....

and in the DM it is compulsory for every weather related story to incude in the title (in brackets) how long said forecast is set to last, ala

(and forecasters say it will last for a whole WEEK)


I hate the DM

Have you forgotten where you live?

I'm supposed to be picking a car up later today, out in the sticks  :(

Make sure you clear the snow off it first, that'll make it a bit lighter.

40 rta's reported in swindon already.idiots out on bikes and companies not showing a duty of care to its employees and sending them out to drive in treacherous conditions. I will walk to work and make my feelings known about getting sent out(they always make us  in snow)

Winter tyres are mandatory in winter in Luxembourg. However not in France so when it snows the French are the ones that often get stuck/cause the accidents.

It does snow more in Luxembourg than the UK granted but food for thought.

I was surprised at the amount of delivery drivers/HGV's out on the roads. Shocked that the 'foreign' ones bombing along at 50mph in the outside lane on the 419.

herthab mentioned on Facebook this morning that he got rear ended twice on the M27.

Should've stayed at home.

i collected the wife from work the other night and despite having winter tyres, i was drifting a fair bit on roundabouts and nearly didn't stop in time for some junctions.

why the fuck anyone would drive with normal tyres in snow is beyond me

Crashed into a lamppost in RWB Sainsburys carpark this morning... :-[  :cry:

You snowplough drivers are all the same  :D

Haha,good work there. Like it

Those banned Shrewbury gays now down in the Hampshire area?

Most people are fucking idiots and have no idea how much grip they lose in snow.

Spoke to my old dear earlier who said she was following 2 cars onto a roundabout. She slowed down (in her 4x4) and both cars carried on, oblivious to the conditions, understeered in a straight line, mounted the curb and smashed into each other. That'll learn 'em.

They're not fucking clueless and are used to a bit of snow. Take note.

My friend was stuck on Thamesdown Drive for 2 hours.  Apparently there's loads of abandoned cars and the bridge going across to West Swindon at the top has now been shut.

My mum has told me a story of Yugoslavia in the 80's. One winter there was snow non-stop for 4 months. At some stages there was about 10 foot of it, what did people do? Dig trenches and carry on with their lives. (Some people died when the trenches caved in but that's completely beside the point)

Last winter my grandad almost froze to death on his way home, he got stuck in the snow and there was there about an hour or so, -15. He was saved by a local stray dog which alerted people to him. This dog is a demi-god in his neighourhood now.

Hark at you defending all the nutcase Polaks!

I told my mum not to bother driving to work and walk the 2.5 miles it takes. The lazy bitch didn't take my advice and is now stuck at the bottom of our hill. That'll teach her!!!

Cool story bro

Its stupid and dangerous. Take note

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I just really struggled to get out of RWB Sainsbury's car park, with car slipping all over the place even at 1mph.....then a kind old lady wound her window down and told me I had got my handbrake on.....

Did this dog happen to be called lassie? :dog:

You are all microcosmic examples of our society's intolerance to snow.

Man up and get on with your lives. (I took the day off uni saying I was stranded in Gloucestershire)

Awaits next thread at 23:39 Sunday evening about some obscure Bosnian essay with a deadline of 9:00 on Monday.

welcome to Norway

I'm doing one at the moment, scintillating stuff. I'll PM you every hour or so with a regular update.

Probably lying about this as well.

:girlgiggle:

Do you drive at all, or take mummy's trains everywhere?

What reason do I have to lie about it? Seems a rather strange thing to do.

Free train, first class on weekends. I don't drive, a student living in London has no need of a car.

There's some strange people on this site...

Countries get that always get loads of snow cope a lot better and are used to the conditions. Countries who don't get a lot of snow usually don't cope well and aren't used to the conditions.

In other news, a bear was spotted defecating by some trees....

We have no snow, it's just raining.

Woo.

My sentiments exactly! Don't understand why people drive like such morons in the snow when we've had bad weather over the last few years now!

not as bad as Eastern Europe though eh ?

 ;)

Good shout...i counted 9 vehicles written off driving back from Surrey including two white vans on there roofs.
One 100 mile trip.....the mind boggles how many cars will end totalled by the end of the day....must say it was rather dicey today........feel totally drained tonight.

Bet the Polish drivers will be going for another 100 miles

Or 90 minutes, as it's known.

To be fair some of the foreign drivers were hammering it but in fairness they are more used to those conditions.

have you lust logged on Lee ?

 :D :D

I have just.....am i repeating old hat rubbish? :headhurts:

have a read back through the threads mate  :D

Point taken Fred....fancy 9 holes first thing? :D

We got a trolley ban and I refuse to carry  :D :D :D :D

Well I've had an interesting 26 hours !

Started an hour south of Munich airport - managed to drive there passing 3 over turned cars on the side of the motorway - no snow clearance or gritting happening there !

Got to airport, boarded plane to sit there for 3 hours, then be told the airport was closing and we were going nowhere.  Not one hotel room available within a 60km radius so tried to sleep,on the airport floor

Plane was supposed to take off at 11.30 this morning - finally left at 1.30 - flew to gatwick and circled the airport for an hour while the de-iced the runway !

Finally touched down at 3 this afternoon - have to say the drive back to Swindon was a dream - hardly anything on the motorway and made it back by 5 - then took me 30 minutes to get from the motorway to Old Town !

Needless to say I'm knackered, but going on the lash in an hour so that should help :-)

Got  fined in France a few years back for overtaking a snowplough.
Fucking cheese eating surrender monkeys.

Sorry, just catching up. That was feckin' funny

 :clap:

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Heh! heh!




GIF's are great 8)

FAO Coca Fola:

http://rt.com/news/winter-snow-russia-weather-275/

Now that is snow

A mere light dusting by Bosnian standards.

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My phone is telling me there is a 40% chance of snow at 5am and a 50% chance of snow at 6am.

Does that mean there is a 45% chance of snow before 7am, or a 90% chance?

And what does 50% chance really mean....it may, it may not...well bloody hell, hold the front page..

My wife works at Munich airport, she says that 11000 people were stuck there that day. Her job is  to try and rebook passengers or find them hotels. She's got the patience of a saint, I'd last 5 minutes in that job before I tore someone's head off.

It's snowing calne now....it's going to fuck up my trip to Amsters...please...

Well I'm hoping for a foot of snow tonight, could do with working from home tomorrow to catch up with some paperwork.

Can't get up Prospect Hill in Old Town, car abandoned (parked!) at the bottom to walk home... so I'll be off tomorrow

Or you could just ask your boss if you can work from home whenever you need to catch up with some paperwork.

I'm sick and tired of 5-0 running up on the block, you know what I'm saying?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skrPiEY9udM

I ran back from old town today, and it was easier underfoot than at at any point since friday

Laugh? I nearly bought a round in at the pub.

No chance mate.

Are the roads bad then? Was heavy but wasn't settling when I drove home at about 5.30.

Is this going to carry on all night?

Hope so.

Walking up and down peoples driveways and paths in general is somewhat hazardous at the moment, I swear I could give Torvill and Dean a run for their money  :suicide:

I don't really know Swindon very well so I thought I would Google Street View Prospect Hill to see what sort of hill you were up against - what is that shit tip at the bottom?  Is it the old college I've seen mentioned?

Yeah, that's it... finally been demolished now

I can see what people were moaning about now

Snowing in South Blunsdon(Penhill) and my garden looks as good as one in Pinehurst . . cant even see the Cortina ariel poking out.

That means someone's nicked it

 :D

Just stuck my knob in the snow and I'm balls deep! Got to be at least an inch

To be fair that would probably be an inch and a half in the warm.

Bastards . havent got any wire coat hangers left.

Two hours of snow in Higworth this morning and the sodding school's shut again!

We have had heavy snow down here in Chard for almost 24 hours now, well over 6 inches in that time, its doing my fucking head in, no deliveries to shops and supermarkets here at all for that period.

All schools and most shops shut today and most major roads still impassable, can't even move my car out of our street :(

I will not be driving to work today! Wish this snow would fuck off!

boooo, it's not fair when parts of the UK has more snow than here

Last nights snow was great. Loads of people seemed to skived off work, the roads were clear and relatively quiet in Swindon.

http://news.sky.com/story/1041744/russia-crash-baby-thrown-into-path-of-lorry :eek:

Jeeze, that's hard to watch.

:D Brilliant

Tell me about it, should have filmed in 1080p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wl5iVYp5vA

I'm not in the slightest bit squeamish but I wish I didn't just watch that. (three times)

Fuck me, that's horrific!

Are these videos recorded by police? If so, how are they released for public viewing?

Or am I missing something?

I think that's a dash cam. And he died. Obviously.

There may have been a family in that car

Its horrific and I hope there wasn't. Goes to show how easy it is to lose control in those conditions.

Drive safe everyone

That is shocking!

So to lighten the mood i will post a pic of my sinister looking snowman in the back garden to lighten the topic 8)

I tried to give him an oriental look :D

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Even though I read the child survived in the 1st clip before I watched it I still cringed. The 2nd clip is just horrific.
Edit: Sorry Leefer are posts crossed   :( Nice use of pegs  :)

Its Alan Carr

 :D

I'm sure I remember reading about it and that it was just a single male occupant.

Dash-cams are massively popular in russian cars. You can spend hours on youtube watching russian dash-cam footage

A plane crash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbvp8N2XMM

Head on car collisions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjwqAozsIhM

Road Rage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epVDutrGlDU

Not russian, but footage from the 2011 japanese tsunami, from the quake to the water. I don't think it's continuous, but the bit where the water just engulfs them shows how manic the whole thing is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQqmp9OOE1E

Let's hope you're right. Either way it's a haunting image.

More snowmen please.

The crash on the last page can't possibly have been a Russian though because Eastern European's are used to snowy conditions. [url width=17 height=21]http://i.imgur.com/OOE2Na3.gif[/url]

I liked the music in the second one!!

I love watching crashes. Although I should probably clarify that as prangs, lucky escapes and amusing stupidity. And to clarify further, it's because I used to watch cars, lots, on YouTube and you eventually start to see crashes.

I remember this video being kind of cool - if you like drivers having fun and enjoy cars. If you don't enjoy cars I expect it's shit. (No crashes.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPzbBQwKegg

Your right, the crash happened on Feb 24th 2012 and the driver of the SUV was killed and the report states there was no evidence that the driver was distracted by using a mobile phone or drink driving and that the vehicle wheels got stuck in a snow rut sending it into the path of the lorry.