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  1. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    Must be cold out there in the Glens...

     
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    A couple of inches. There’s a lot more on high ground, especially where there has been drifting. Lower down the problem isn’t so much the snow it’s the freezing, especially on the less used roads which never get gritted. Back down to -4 here, -10 with wind chill (wind from Siberia). To be fair this is such a rare occurrence that I think it’s forgivable not to have fleets of gritters and snow ploughs constantly on stand by. When I was in O’Hare in January I counted 40 snow ploughs on just the section of runway that I could see from the terminal, and I thought at the time that was probably more vehicles than we have for all U.K. airports combined.
     
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    I keep seeing the thread title and thinking this is a homage to Seb Polter.

    Buses cancelled today (didn't know before standing in a queue freezing for 30 mins for the second day running).

    After the local rag boasted of 23 gritters for the area and 9 for the town, I am thrilled that they today triumphantly proclaim that they have successfully kept the big bridge to the South mostly clear. Well done. I had to turn round and go home to work because the town couldn't keep the main roads clear.
     
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    What chopper. It looks like a man with his tool in his hands!
     
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    What chopper? It looks like a man with his tool in his hands!
     
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    Ranger4ever Well-Known Member

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    What chopper? It looks like a man with his tool in his hands!
     
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    -7 outside now, -15 with wind chill. Properly cold. Just went for a stroll to get milk and fingers started hurting even with ski gloves on. Feel for those without shelter tonight.
     
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    it was funny the first time<doh>:emoticon-0184-tmi:
     
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  11. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    We heard you the first time...<laugh>
     
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    get yourselves to the shops

    Handy #snowday shopping list:

    -8,000 tea bags
    -Everything in canned goods aisle
    -All the bread
    -400 pints of milk
    -Enough booze to fill shed
    -50 Easter eggs
    -12kg of cheese
    -A whole trolley of crisps/sweets
    -One small bag of lettuce
     
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    Hands were shaking so much from the cold that the post reply button must have registered three times.

    I wouldn't mind, except I'm on a train & they've got the AC on full blast
     
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  14. Sooperhoop

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    And they have the heating on in mid-summer...:grin:
     
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    IMG_0771 (2).JPG IMG_0771 (2).JPG

    Quite nice here in NYC Today
     
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    starting to heat up here too
    please log in to view this image
     
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    Been told first snow since 2002 here
     
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    Don't rub it in...
     
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    No snow here, but Mrs Nines who is working late three miles away has just said that she's just had eight inches. Must be some sort of micro-climate.
     
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    ooh er missis
     
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