First snow

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:09 am

craigs135s wrote: Hardly any here in Preston.

Cheers
C

Got some now - about 1"
Causes utter panic as it never snows here...!

Post by **Shug** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:33 am

Had a good blatter of hail overnight, so the A77 south (to Stranraer, where Elaine works) is reasonably bad - lots of back roads about here closed and villages cut off. Almost never happens this close to the coast as well.

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:31 am

gave Clare the Audi this morning and took the Boxster.

Entered the office and did a 720 in my iced deserted car park - well, its nearly the holidays

r055 · Post by **r055** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:50 am

had great fun in the snow last night - we got caught up in the blizzard however the good ol' landy showed us what it could do.

have to agree with the total idiots on the roads. Watched a BMW driver drift up the hill with the tail swinging around and he clipped another car

Started snowing lightly again in cumbernauld...

DDtB · Post by **DDtB** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:31 pm

Snowing quite heavy here now....

I can feel some tail swinging coming on later .... (if I can get out the car park!!)

Post by **Shug** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:33 pm

Elaine's just had a total power cut in the shop as well... Weather is clearing here, but not hugely chuffed about her coming up the coast road (not much has been cleared in Ayr, but Stranraer has been done) in the dark...

Scotty C · Post by **Scotty C** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 1:34 pm

it was raining when I was walking the dog this morning at 7am. It has now frozen and the roads in ABZ are really slippy

cla5h · Post by **cla5h** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:52 pm

Coming down here nicely now - looks just like the kind of snow you'd expect on Christmas day.

Not sure if it will lie though - roads were looking wet before.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:50 pm

4 inches of snow on the M8 last night and 1 inch of ice under that. 3 hours Gla-Edin including locking up at 5 mph full opposite and then sliding gracefully in to the banking at 90 degrees to the normal.

Shameful lack of snow ploughs.

Great Pretender · Post by **Great Pretender** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:30 pm

Andy G wrote:gave Clare the Audi this morning and took the Boxster.

Entered the office and did a 720 in my iced deserted car park - well, its nearly the holidays

For those that know it, I performed a perfect - almost balletic - drift up the entire length of Stell Road whilst looking for a parking space where I work. I'm still giggling about it now.

A couple of years back, when I had the old E34 M5, I used the office car park as a drift circuit before anyone else had arrived... or so I thought: The MD had parked on the main road and was - I noticed all too late - standing at his office window, watching me draw large circles in the snow.

Fortunately he had a sense of humour.

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:57 pm

Tonights moment of comedy genius

Our neighbor popped round to say hello and invite us over to his for a few

promptly drove into our fence and got stuck after sliding on ice.

So i had to drag him out with a landrover

Lazydonkey · Post by **Lazydonkey** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:08 pm

Arriving in inverness this afternoon made me realise what a complete pigs ear the central belt councils always make when it snows - it's been really really heavy up here and yet the A9 was clear all the way up..............and we passed abiout 8 gritters and snowplows between perth and inverness.

Really quite embarrassing when you see how the m8 grids to a halt - i was 2 hours 15 mins coming from Livi to glas the other night with less snow than i saw today.

Alistair · Post by **Alistair** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 11:35 pm

Sanjoy wrote:4 inches of snow on the M8 last night and 1 inch of ice under that. 3 hours Gla-Edin including locking up at 5 mph full opposite and then sliding gracefully in to the banking at 90 degrees to the normal.

Shameful lack of snow ploughs.

Ooops!

I'm assuming that was the barge?!?

Post by **campbell** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:24 am

The 340 would have BEEN the snow plough I reckon!

craigs135s · Post by **craigs135s** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:30 am

Rich H wrote:
craigs135s wrote: Hardly any here in Preston.

Cheers
C
Got some now - about 1"
Causes utter panic as it never snows here...!

Well not sure what happned over night but woke up this morning to about 5 inches (Easy Shug)... Took 1 hour 40 mins to get from Preston to Blackburn 11 miles.

Cheers
C

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