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Post by SuperStokie on Jan 27, 2004 21:34:09 GMT
Now I can understand the test being cancelled when it's like this........earlier was disgraceful (still fuming). Is it snowing where you are! Oatcake snow update number one JonnYO
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2004 21:36:53 GMT
None in Leicester yet... but it will come, oh yes.
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Post by ucheterstokie on Jan 27, 2004 21:40:44 GMT
Were expecting 10-15 inches in Rhode Island in the next 24 hours and the snow from the last lot we had anner gone yet
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Post by smeegsSCFC on Jan 27, 2004 21:46:07 GMT
Aye snow in Bucknall, hides the rubbish on the streets at least
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Post by Parksy on Jan 28, 2004 9:29:09 GMT
Yup - snow in Buxton. But then again what's new
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Post by angescfc on Jan 28, 2004 9:36:19 GMT
Snowing in Alsager and Stoke. It's gonna be fun getting home if it keeps on like this!
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Post by RobPa on Jan 28, 2004 9:39:16 GMT
snowing in penkhull
and (where i am now) snowing at newcastle college
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Post by twolittlepigss on Jan 28, 2004 10:03:18 GMT
Snowing in Telford now...
;D
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Post by Pricey on Jan 28, 2004 10:08:46 GMT
Bloody rubbish, we've hardly had any in Loughborough. Started snowing about an hour ago, stopped within half an hour!
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Post by SuperStokie on Jan 28, 2004 10:11:06 GMT
Im at newcastle college to Jon
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Post by angescfc on Jan 28, 2004 13:13:36 GMT
It looks like it's thawing so we probably won't be able to escape early!
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Post by Parksy on Jan 28, 2004 13:19:26 GMT
Still coming down here - has been all day. Lovely white out !!
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Post by JR on Jan 28, 2004 13:28:03 GMT
Raining here in Nant and all the snow thankfully melting.
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Post by sheffieldstokie on Jan 28, 2004 13:51:07 GMT
Not a drop to be seen in shef now. Snowed for about 20 mins last night and looked like it would snow loads earlier but nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2004 14:09:11 GMT
really started falling very heavy Congelton, Biddulph way in the last couple of hours, can't get into town via the main road at the moment, mainly with slow moving tail backs apparently... great
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Post by sheffieldstokie on Jan 28, 2004 14:15:16 GMT
OK the snow is coming down now!! Bring it on!!
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Post by twolittlepigss on Jan 28, 2004 15:18:06 GMT
Telford calling,
We've had about an inch in 30 mins! How the hell am I going to get home...
Funniest suggestion wins internet message board kudos points...
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Post by Pricey on Jan 28, 2004 15:41:12 GMT
Walk, what are you, bone-bloody-idle or something? It's snowing (properly) in Loughborough and has been for an hour and a half....woo-hoo!
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Post by padders01 on Jan 28, 2004 15:47:16 GMT
Absoutely crazy the traffic Ive sent everyone home. Gonna go home myself now i think ;D
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Post by twolittlepigss on Jan 28, 2004 15:52:07 GMT
Pricey, you Slag!!! How did you know I was bone idle... It's a bloody 15 mile drive, I wouldn't walk that if it wasn't Scot of the bloody Arctic outside...
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 28, 2004 16:18:13 GMT
What a strange climate you lot live in! Down here in Plymouth I took a stroll round the garden in short sleeves to check on the condition of the palm trees this morning. ;D Can't wait to move back north though - winter isn't proper winter down here - its just a time of short days between Autumn and Spring.
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Post by RobPa on Jan 28, 2004 19:55:13 GMT
got in college and about 6 of my me fellow classmates lol, bombarded me!! what course u taking superstokie, im doing avce ict
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Post by ICK on Jan 28, 2004 19:55:39 GMT
How crap's this. I left work in Stafford at 4 and got home for 4.45, once I hit Trentham it took me 15 minutes to get to Penkhull.
Mt sister left the Holditch Ind Est in Chesterton at 3.45 and got in at 7.30! Her boyfriend left Warrington at 6 and was in Trentham for 6.45.
The grit bins in my road, and most of the others near the infirmary are pretty much empty and there are no gritters to be seen.
It seems to me that the gay mayor got his ice rink without having to pay for it and everyone gets a go for free. Perhaps he ought to have spent £50k on grit and salt rather than that travesty outside argos. I mean, where are the Tennants Super connoseurs going to sit now?
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Post by SuperStokie on Jan 28, 2004 20:13:24 GMT
My Dad left work to come home at 3pm and didn't get in until 6.15pm! We were worried sick about him.
He said it's the worst journey he's ever had to make, in 30+ years of driving.
Like my arse Stoke-On-Trent council, like my arse!
Jon
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Post by ICK on Jan 28, 2004 20:23:30 GMT
It's all Pricey and his ilks' fault. If they used all that hot air they generate at University on something useful like frozen roads, we'd have none of the trouble we've had today.
Bet the big girl's got his gloves on today.
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Post by Pricey on Jan 29, 2004 1:32:09 GMT
Who the fucking hell are you?! ;D
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Post by twolittlepigss on Jan 29, 2004 9:25:24 GMT
Is it possible that it isn't wholly the council’s fault? I'm over in Telford and we have had exactly the same problems. 1) It warmed up before it snowed, melting / dampening the roads. 2) It then snowed very hard 3) Anything "moist" froze (i.e. that has been gritted) 4) People all panic and go home early 5) The Gritters cannot touch the roads cause they are covered in cars! I think the main blame lies with Mother Nature 2LP
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Post by angescfc on Jan 29, 2004 9:29:35 GMT
It's coz everybody panics cz we aren't used to it
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jan 29, 2004 9:55:13 GMT
In the UK snow falls at a narrow range of temperatures just below or often just above freezing. It often melts as it hits the ground or soon after when the temperature rises. Then when it freezes at night the roads become a skating rink. That rarely happens abroad. In Arabba in the Dolomites, where I have just returned from a skiing holiday, the temperature never rose above -5 all week and dropped as low as -15. The snow was light powder and caused no problems on the roads as the ploughs just pushed it aside.
I am afraid it is the penalty we pay for being an island surrounded by relatively warm water. We will always have more problems with road surfaces than the continentals and will just have to live with it.
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Post by padders01 on Jan 29, 2004 10:26:00 GMT
I left the office at 4:15 in Fenton and went to Chesterton which is only 8miles. On average it takes 15mins it took me 3hrs last night!!!!!!!!!!! I could have gone to London in that time!!!! MAD!!!! Cars all over the shop, slipping and sliding Never seen any thing like it
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