poohbear 1,360 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Well...out my kitchen window two mornings on the trot..I'm amazed,I thought it would take a week to go. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Like a beautiful sunny spring morning here 6.3C in the shade Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Last night at 20.30 I went to fetch SWMBO from work it was -5 and there was three inces of snow down. I took her back in at 07.45 and it was +8 and no snow ...................... What's that all about ? So much for the tenner I spent on that bloody sledge yesterday !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Haven't you lot heard up there? It's called Global Warming. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jackson 301 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 Opened my kitchen curtains this morning and a simple delight met me: the sight of my beautifully green, rectangular lawn - in fact, it dazzled my eyes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted January 27, 2013 Report Share Posted January 27, 2013 As I said, Global Warming. Plus the Atom Bomb tests in the 50s. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Light snow here Temp 1.2c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 NO SNOW HERE BUT RAINED HEAVY IN THE NIGHT STILL RAINING AFTER DINNER SO FED UP DECIDED TO GO OUT FOR A DRIVE FOR HOUR OR SO LEFT HERE 2.5 C HEADED UP TO DERBYSHIRE UP TO BAKEWELL STILL RAINING BUT NOT SO HEAVY UP TO MONY ASH LITE SNOWON THE FIELDS MINUS 1C HEDING BACK TOWARDS HOME VIA ASHBOURNE AND BELPER MANY PARTS OF THE ROADS WERE FLOODED BUT NO WARNINGS ANYWERE . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 On the subject of snow in Nottingham, can anyone remind me what year it was when a particular kind of heavy, wet snow brought down all the power lines in the area and all the electricity was cut off for most of Nottingham? I think it must have been between about 1982 and 1992 but I can't remember when. The main trouble it caused, apart from simply not having any electricity in the home was that it meant the water supply was cut off because there was no power at the pumping stations. I remember it started one Saturday, and didn't come back on in Bulwell at any rate until, think the following night. Or was it longer than that. I remember filling the bath with snow in order to melt it (had a gas cooker) to wash and to do washing up with. Hadn't got as far as having to drink it before supplies were restored. I remember huddling around the battery radio, tuned in to Radio Nottingham listening for bulletins on how the work to restore supplies was going, area by area. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 To hot to do much gardening today, but did manage to lay around in the shade, with a long cold drink Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Merthyr Imp I remember it but thought it was late 70s. I lived in Carlton at the time. It was not snow but an unusual frost/high humidity problem? Build up of ice on wires brought them down. The ice on the wires was inches thick. I remember metal telephone poles bending with the weight of the wires BT (or GPO?) had to call in extra staff from Ireland. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Did a 7 mile walk round Matlock, got soaked. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 No - what I'm thinking of was in the 1980s (or maybe early 1990s) because it was when I was living in Bulwell, and I didn't move there until late 1980. There was definitely heavy snow, which started on a Saturday morning (maybe late the previous night) and it was said that due to a combination of it being wet snow and heavy winds it had forced the power lines down. It affected just about all of Nottingham as I remember. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 I have it on video Mick, I think it was 1990 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Sounds familiar, Saturday morning brought the power lines down at Inham Nook, Chilwell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 I have it on video Mick, I think it was 1990 Which incident Bro, snow or ice? Youtube? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hippo girl 1,995 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 It was December 1990, got stuck in a snow drift on m1 on way to wembley arena......when eventually got home, there was a power cut !!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 On the subject of snow in Nottingham, can anyone remind me what year it was when a particular kind of heavy, wet snow brought down all the power lines in the area and all the electricity was cut off for most of Nottingham? I moved to Arnold '87 and it was in Arnold they had water bowsers out on Rolleston Drive and the Major Oak had bottles beer only 'cos the power was down....so I would have said late 80s early 90s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 Which incident Bro, snow or ice? Youtube? The snow that turned to ice, Mick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted February 10, 2013 Report Share Posted February 10, 2013 The suggestion of December 1990 just prompted me to do an Internet search and I've found this debate about it in parliament:- http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1990/dec/19/electricity-supply-east-midlands It was Friday night 7th of December when it started. I've only skimmed through all what's on there (after all a lot of it is MPs waffling) but it's got it all there, about what caused the power cuts and about the local radio bulletins etc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 I was seeing a girl who lived on Sneinton Dale at the time of the bent telegraph poles, I walked over from Carlton to check she was OK only to find she'd managed to get a taxi and was over at her mums in Langley Mill ! I walked up Cavendish road and tapped the cables with my mums clothes line prop to make the snow/ice fall off causing them to spring back up quite a bit other wise when the traffic did start to flow the bus's would have gone through them !! (If anybody remembers my post a while back, our house was connected to the first one in the country, now that happened when my Dad was still alive, he died in 1990.) The telegraph pole outside my Mums remained bent for years and was finally replaced with a wooden one a year or so back , progress eh ? I'm pretty sure it was as late as 92, as I worked at Business Post at the time, and fortunately it was my Saturday off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piggy and babs 544 Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 piggy had just been made redundant the year after we moved to clifton . we moved to clifton september 1989. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Heavy Snow here settling 0.4c Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deeps 68 Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Heavy snow here as well. The one good thing about the it is that it makes my garden look just as good as everyone elses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted February 13, 2013 Report Share Posted February 13, 2013 Snow over here too Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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