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The best from the east arrives Friday into Saturday with  sub zero temperatures expected with a substantial windchill .

Heavy snow in places and with the strong east wind expected will blow the snow around , it will eventually amass the whole country by Sunday so get your proper woolies  ready .

We had 4 inches of snow yesterday this is the real thing coming expected to last around a week .

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1 hour ago, big_cod said:

The best from the east arrives Friday into Saturday with  sub zero temperatures expected with a substantial windchill .

Heavy snow in places and with the strong east wind expected will blow the snow around , it will eventually amass the whole country by Sunday so get your proper woolies  ready .

We had 4 inches of snow yesterday this is the real thing coming expected to last around a week .

Four inches LOL. Where my nephew in Japan lives thye have about one or two meters for three months of the year. This country would be totally buggered to hell if we had another  1947 or 1963. 

 

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4" the ice is thicker in my fridge ,1963 was very exiting for a ten year old .

Lots of mad sledging on masons hill (it had a path running horizontaly across it so you took off before continuing the slope)

And a group of us from different streets rolled a ball so big in the end we couldnt move it ,the snow melted the ball remained and a bloke from the council broke it up with a jack hammer as blocked a third of the road.

Sea froze at folkestone

Warm here i expect its the same down south in cory town

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13 minutes ago, chesters1 said:

4" the ice is thicker in my fridge ,1963 was very exiting for a ten year old .

Lots of mad sledging on masons hill (it had a path running horizontaly across it so you took off before continuing the slope)

And a group of us from different streets rolled a ball so big in the end we couldnt move it ,the snow melted the ball remained and a bloke from the council broke it up with a jack hammer as blocked a third of the road.

Sea froze at folkestone

Warm here i expect its the same down south in cory town

Today it was what we call "dreich". I was only three. It was the first time I had seen snow. I got a coal shovel full of it and threw it on my grannies fire to see if the stuff would burn.

Hokkaido where my nephew lives.
 


Funnily enough the trains keep running.

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Its easy when its regular ,think of the fuss here if we had all the snow ploughs we needed plus a few spares and they sat rusting waiting for years for the next snowfall . They dont even bother in scotland they just shut the gates and wait for the thaw!

I remember the council even used to clear the pavements now they dont even clear the roads in town and one year on boxing day we went to folkestone to see our son and the motorways had snow all the way down to maidstone!

I doubt trains nowadays could even push a plough through a foot high drift!.

There we go

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Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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ALL,

Not a pleasant thought.

Sounds like Rochester, New York gets more snow than any other large city in the United States, with a yearly average of 100 inches (255 cm).

It is "lake effect" snow off the great lakes.

Just a reminder - - all ice cycles contain bird shite - don't eat them like we did as kids

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There are only three or four roads with snow gates. I can't speak for all of Scotland but where I come from the council workers take their gritters and snow ploughs home with them. Even little single track roads that only lead to farms get gritted otherwise the milk tanker would not make its rounds.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
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Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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4 minutes ago, Phone said:

ALL,

Not a pleasant thought.

Sounds like Rochester, New York gets more snow than any other large city in the United States, with a yearly average of 100 inches (255 cm).

It is "lake effect" snow off the great lakes.

Just a reminder - - all ice cycles contain bird shite - don't eat them like we did as kids

PHONE 

Eating snow is a bad idea. A sure way to win the 100 metre dash.

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9 minutes ago, corydoras said:

There are only three or four roads with snow gates. I can't speak for all of Scotland but where I come from the council workers take their gritters and snow ploughs home with them. Even little single track roads that only lead to farms get gritted otherwise the milk tanker would not make its rounds.

Weird how times change ,today theres a leaf or "wrong type of snow" on the line and everything closes down but in 63

 

Believe NOTHING anyones says or writes unless you witness it yourself and even then your eyes can deceive you

None of this "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" crap it just means i have at least two enemies!

 

There is only one opinion i listen to ,its mine and its ALWAYS right even when its wrong

 

Its far easier to curse the darkness than light one candle

 

Mathew 4:19

Grangers law : anything i say will  turn out the opposite or not happen at all!

Life insurance? you wont enjoy a penny!

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." Thomas Jefferson

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5 minutes ago, chesters1 said:

Weird how times change ,today theres a leaf or "wrong type of snow" on the line and everything closes down but in 63

 

So leafs and wrong snow are real things. Leaf mold from falling leaves make a kind of mulm on the railway lines and that makes them very greasy. Fine powder snow can get sucked into the cooling systems of electric trains and cause shorts. I remember when I used to commute between Southampton and Waterloo on a daily basis we were talking about such things. One of our group was a Swiss guy who used to work on the Swiss railways. He told us that in Switzerland the do not suffer a deciduous tree to grow within 50 metres of a railway line.

Another thing that does not help is that  have noticed that a lot of trains down here have live rails, glorified Scalextric sets. Up north they are either diesel electric or overhead wires with pantos.

The problem isn't what people don't know, it's what they know that just ain't so.
Vaut mieux ne rien dire et passer pour un con que de parler et prouver que t'en est un!
Mi, ch’fais toudis à m’mote

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