Snow Warning: Britain Set For Winter Blast

Nightmare Tony, my OH in same position with delivery vans out on the roads all day every day. It's pathetic. The opportunity is there to buy equipment to deal with it, but they'd prefer to save a few pounds in the short term instead. Grrrrr :evil:

I should take my nasty head off now and kick the soapbox into touch :roll:

NellyPS wrote:Does anyone remember that freak storm in Basingstoke that actually made the news last year just before Christmas? Complete chaos and I was there :)

I remember that Nelly, I know someone that was in Basingstoke at the time and it took him approx 5 hours to cover 30 miles back into the Surrey area :shock:

I'm glad we don't have our dairy cows anymore, when I think about the snow.

Christmas 1981 I think it was, we were snowed in for about 3 weeks and the milk tanker couldn't get to us so we had to give away all the milk to the village, which was also snowed in. And all the water troughs were frozen over so we had to keep smashing them, we had to light a fire to get the water running to milk the cows, we couldn't get the cows out of the fields because the gates were about 3 foot deep in snow - until we dug them out, we had to drag corn and hay 2 miles over the snow on a car bonnet to get it to the cows. And then the electricity and water went off. At the end, they had to bring helicopters in to drop food to some of the villages. Boy - I was fit at the end. I had to walk 8 miles each day over the snow and slog my guts out all day.

And we lost a huge amount of money.

I love the snow when I'm on a ski-ing holiday, but I really, really hate to see it here.

Ally

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Hi All,

This is absolutely smashtastic news.. :D :D :D , yes although at the grand old age of 38....where snow is concerned..yes I'm actually about 5 years old.

There is a weather forecaster called joe Bastardi ( yes it's his real name folks ) and he says that the UK will experience a winter similar to last years, but Europe from the Pyranees to Eastern European Countris such as Bosnia, Albania, and as far as Turkey and northern Greece are set to experience a right snowy, bitterly cold b*****d of a winter.

He is also predicting large snow events ( above normal across the alps ).....hopefully the winter gods are paying attention and reading from the same script :thumbup:.

Just make sure you all have good tyres , top up your anti-freeze and put a winter solution in your screen wash, a set of chains might be a good idea anyway and I'm sure all will be fine.

Checking up on elderly neighbours etc should be mentioned more also I feel.


Heres to a massive winter....right wheres my hip flask? :D


jon.

He's American isn't he? Works on the Weather Channel (the only decent channel in America).

I hope we do get a good winter (in the Alps), and if you go with what nature has been telling us, its set to be a cold snowy one over here too.

Hurrah!

I should add that I mean I hope we get a good winter as far as snow is concerned in all mountainous areas across the world that have ski lifts for snow sports.

Thank you Nelly :D

If you can confine all the snow to the ski resorts that will be great :lol:

Ally