Beast from the East

[mercurydancer 1,104]

As usual, a sensationalist story on the media about snow. Snow in winter. Worst snowfall in 5 whole years! 

In Co Durham we had a snowstorm this afternoon. It took about 38 seconds and is gone now. Its cool but not bitterly cold. 

Trains cancelled even before the snow falls! Trains cancelled because of no snow! 

 

I was in Moscow recently and they had a heavy snowfall, one meter in a few hours. Now that is a snowstorm. Nothing much stopped, apart from the flights. Pubs still open in downtown Moscow. 
What was the last sensationalist story? Weather bomb? Nowt much happened. 

 

Without scaring anyone, everyone stay safe

 

 

[catfan 14,793]

So true MD, the NEP have been doing their usual scaremongering regarding the weather again !

[philmayfield 6,187]

At the farm shop at Hockerton near Southwell today they told me they had sold out of logs as people have been stocking up for their wood burners! I bought a couple of meat pies but they’ll be gone by tomorrow. I don’t  know how we’re going to manage after that!

[catfan 14,793]

Smash the furniture !

[philmayfield 6,187]

We don’t have a wood burner. Neither do we have an AGA. Not very posh at all really.

[MargieH 7,613]

Comments on the Cambridge Evening News have called it ' a flurry from Surrey' as we have had so little snow up to now.  Despite this, a reduced train service to London has been announced already, because they 'don't want people waiting around at cold stations'' for trains that aren't coming....??

[mercurydancer 1,104]

Latest report from North East England where there is serious threat to life. No wind, no snow, 3C. How am I going to survive the night without resorting to cannibalism? 

[philmayfield 6,187]

I remember the winters of the 70’s when we used to have proper snow. It used to drift over the road out of the village. On those mornings I just got up earlier and drove through the drift at speed. I was never late for work. That was in the days before the ubiquitous four by fours which all country folk seem to drive nowadays.

[denshaw 2,874]

Is this from East Leak or East Bridgford?

[mercurydancer 1,104]

Margie

 

That begs the question -  have stations that have warm areas! 

[catfan 14,793]

Hoping the weather warms up a bit.....................off to Sussex soon !

[philmayfield 6,187]

30 minutes ago, denshaw said:

Is this from East Leak or East Bridgford?

Trent valley villages 

[Oztalgian 3,327]

Many on here are of an age that can remember the Big Freeze of 1963, I know I can, slogging through 4 and 5 foot drifts to go to school with wellies full of snow and putting your socks on the school radiators to dry. 

This video is a great reminder of what we did then to keep going compared to the threat of a few snowflakes (weather) and the snowflake generation that due to OHS&W and PC the UK has now become. Nowadays even the threat of a dusting of snow is enough to stop the trains.

 

 

 

[Jill Sparrow 10,316]

I well remember the big freeze of 63. I was 5 at the time and ill with measles. None of the houses in our road had any water because the main was frozen!

 

It was bad but I recall my father saying the big freeze of 1947...before my time...was much worse.

[letsavagoo 964]

I was born in early 1955 and am told that the midwife had a job to get in the house as the snow had drifted half way up the door and it was up 2 steps at that. I don't recall the 63 big freeze much but remember very heavy snow when I was about 14 or 15 just after Christmas. There was heavy snow in the late 80's when it was the 'wrong kind' and bought a lot of power and phone lines down. 

[letsavagoo 964]

12 hours ago, philmayfield said:

At the farm shop at Hockerton near Southwell today they told me they had sold out of logs as people have been stocking up for their wood burners! I bought a couple of meat pies but they’ll be gone by tomorrow. I don’t  know how we’re going to manage after that!

I've given up burning logs for the time being as getting decent dry logs at reasonable money has eluded me. The last delivery was so wet I had to wring them out before use. I'm using smokeless fuel for the time being. It burns for hours so doesn't need much attention and it hot. Probably cheaper than logs too. 

[MargieH 7,613]

2 hours ago, Jill Sparrow said:

I well remember the big freeze of 63. I was 5 at the time.....

 

It was bad but I recall my father saying the big freeze of 1947...before my time...was much worse.

I can remember 1947 and climbing up the snow banks on Woodthorpe Drive wearing my little wellies!  They were very high, or at least that's how they appeared to a 4 year old...

[crankypig 457]

I have also given up burning logs,too expensive and burn through too fast,now have some smokeless coal.,have also found a woodyard selling off cuts cheap.

[FLY2 10,109]

Well  it's yet another cold, but glorious sunny day here on the south coast, with a pure blue sky  ! Has been for days now.

If this is 'global warming', then let's have more ! 

[philmayfield 6,187]

Well who’s got the biggest snowman this morning? I peered through the curtains with trepidation at 7 o’clock - nothing! Perhaps the prophets of doom will resort to the power of prayer today.

[philmayfield 6,187]

Prayers have been answered. We’re on Amber alert here in the Newark district until 11am. and yes, it’s snowing! Only two meat pies in the fridge. This could be serious!

[katyjay 5,091]

The winter of '63 I had been at work a year by then. But, I don't remember anything about the weather, which is weird, seeing how the strangest memories pop up from my youth. I must have gone to work each day throughout the snow, bitter cold etc.  After watching Ozstalgian's video, I find it hard to believe there is no memory of any of it. 

[PeverilPeril 3,288]

I was nine in the Winter of 1947 and remember it vividly. There used to be an open twitchel between Peveril St and Aspley Place. It was our short cut to Bentink Rd School and to Alfreton Rd. The snow had drifted up against a derelict house and the twitchel was wiped out with eight or ten feet of snow. That was far too much to clear and us kids dug a tunnel through it. Incidentally, all the properties in Aspley Place were derelict in those days.

[philmayfield 6,187]

I remember being taken to see the floods in Arkwright St. in 1947 when I was 4. I think the water was lapping just below the Midland Station. 

[NewBasfordlad 3,599]

Surprising how much more it gets talked about if the south gets hit.

 

I remember it very well working on EMGAS walking everywhere and bloody cold to, but we made a pretty penny doing foreigners after work, all them frozen outside bogs. Word was sent down from on high every bar of plumbers solder taken from the stores had to be accounted for.

 

I don't remember 1947 I was only a year old but I have seen pictures taken by my father in law, they lived at Fairfield in Buxton and he had to dig a tunnel to the front door for the midwife, good job really as the wife was born during the event.

 

Back in the late 60s we had a bad snow up in Buxton and I remember very clearly being part of a team sent out at 11o/c at night to get a snow blower driver of the moor, his machine had got stuck on the Congleton road, to say he was happy to see us is a bit of an under statement.