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    I feel for folks there who've not had much experience with this sort of weather. After the several weeks' power ...
 

Dec 13
2010

Posted by richard

The fascination with our weather is something British perhaps, but now I see our cousins are having just as bad a time of it too! Although admittedly, the two foot of snow in Milwaukee (was it there, I read it?) is a bit more than our one foot.

We are due some more though, and when the weather man bandies words around like ‘from Siberia’ or ‘from the Arctic Circle’, it sends a proverbial chill down your spine. Time to get stock up on tinned tuna, corned beef, taters and dried milk.

I’m still waiting on these Christmas present deliveries though …

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    LOL Yes I know, it actually is new, kind of, to this area. We don't get much of this kind ...
  • mel
    OMG, walk or bike are your only options? Mac, I doubt that it's new to him. He DID grow up where ...
 

Dec 5
2010

Posted by richard

Everything’s so bloody icy! The pavements, at least on the non-main roads, are thick with the stuff, a couple of inches in most places. The roads too. The main roads aren’t bad, they’ve lavished salt on them to say the least.

At least we can work tomorrow, but it’ll be a nightmare getting there and back with the ice. Not sure if I should walk or bike?

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    LOL! Normally that's what it would be like here, but all we have is rain.
 

Dec 2
2010

Posted by richard

I thought I’d never say this in my entire life, but I think I’m in danger of being snowed in!

Up to today we had perhaps 8-10 inches of snow, and sticking around too, freezing each night with more deposited on top. Then today came along. It’s been snowing fairly constantly all day, thick and thin, but still snowing. And it’s 4pm and still going.

Took some great photos though, will get them all uploaded to flickr or yfrog if I can and post a link. You know things are bad when the great big church (one of the largest steeples in the UK) only a few hundred feet away is nearly obscured by the snow falling!

Still, all in all, a very nice picturesque scene out the window. Very white christmassy feeling.

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    Yeah it had melted a little since last night so the journey in wasn't too bad. But it snowed for ...
  • mel
    Oh man! Black ice is sooooooooooooooooooo dangerous. Be careful out there!!!
 

Nov 29
2010

Posted by richard

It snowed over the weekend, and last night, so this morning we had about two inches to get through to work. Yeah I know, doesn’t sound much but when you don’t see snow for years, it certainly is!

Biking to work wasn’t that bad actually, not that much ice except frozen slush underneath the snow.

But today it snowed. And snowed. So we had another inch or two to bike through, although we left work early because of the traffic issues. Lincs FM said Louth was a ‘black spot’ because of all the ice, and it was, you could see the black ice forming very thick.

The weather report doesn’t look too encouraging, more snow overnight and tomorrow, so it looks like it’s going to be an early white christmas. I’ll try to take some pics if I can, and post the ones I have too.

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    Yeah but there was nothing to take a picture of this morning! And last night it was late and cold, ...
  • macbros
    Ya know these kind of posts always go better with PICTURES you know huh? Huh? Huh? I don't have much of ...
 

Feb 4
2010

Posted by richard

The snow revisited this part of the world again last night. Paddy texted me asking if I’d seen outside and when I looked it was coming down thick. It’s pretty to see, makes me think of when I was a kid I suppose.

It had started to stick, and the cars were only just making a dent in the snow on the road, but you could tell by the sound of them as they went that it wasn’t going to stay, slush was starting already. And it wasn’t cold enough.

This morning, barely a few flakes remain. So much for that!

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    Wow! you guys are getting walloped! I bet the snow removal people are shocked and can't handle it. LOL Drivers are ...
 

Jan 9
2010

Posted by richard

Had some more snow last night, another inch or so, and this morning as well with the blizzard-like wind conditions. We’re forecast for some more today and tomorrow, with rather a heavy amount, so they say.

This morning I had issues with my internet connection too, TalkTalk are reporting problems with a broken cable in the area and BT are on it. That’ll be the day… It’s odd though that it took me 15 minutes this morning to get connected, but since then I’ve been fine. Seems more of a ‘net problem than a landline issue.

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  • richard
    ROTFL, light dusting! Too true, when you see your pics from a year or so ago! It snowed last night ...
  • macbros
    That's a light dusting you got there. Looks pretty though. One thing to look forward to when it does snow heavy most ...
 

Jan 4
2010

Posted by richard

We’re not used to this kind of cold!

After our nearly-white Christmas, we are now promised more snow. Although I love snow (it’s one of my first memories as a kid coming back from Kuwait), I have to say I don’t love the cold that comes with it. Unfortunately the weather here seems to favour ice and freezing temperatures rather than masses of snow.

Nevertheless, as you can see from the picture taken from then, we do get snow. I’ll upload some more tonight to my Flickr account. And that was thick for us, a couple of inches, so of course being Britons, it caused mayhem and brought the country to a standstill…

My feet are really beginning to feel a bit chilly right now!

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  • macbros
    Still got lots here. Come and get it. :P
  • Christina
    I was so sad about missing out on a white Christmas that I actually made plans to spend the holidays ...
 

Dec 18
2009

Posted by richard

Could it be a white Christmas for the first time up here in years? It seems pretty promising, at least if the last few days are anything to go by. It’s been snowing, hailing, sleeting, on and off, and talking with friends and my dad in Sussex, there’s been several inches down there.

The flakes right now are coming down thick, but it’s intermittent. We’ll have 5 minutes of snow, then nothing for 30 minutes, so there’s no gathering of snow as it all melts too quickly.

Anyway, crossing fingers time, let’s hope it’s all picturesque for Christmas!

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  • dentist
    Well here in Poland more than 1meter of snow on the streets It took more than hour to deilver my ...
  • richard
    LOL, I know I know, it's pathetic. We used to have terrible winters here and life went on, but we've ...
 

Feb 2
2009

Posted by richard

…and the country shuts down.

Sure some places got a lot, 20cm in London, the southeast got it quite bad but really we shouldn’t have much of a problem with this. Why do schools shut down for a few millimetres of snow?

Hey Mac, we got our snow, all of say, 10 millimetres, it was sad. I’m hoping for a bit more, but rain’s forecast so it looks like we’ve had our quota.

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  • MrCorey
    Much of that snow that you saw in Mac's post is now rained off, believe it or not. The ...
  • MacBros
    That was all in one night too. I can't believe we got a whole winters worth of snow in one ...
 

Dec 24
2008

Posted by richard

I almost typed in ‘Shite Christmas’ there, was nearly close to missing it.

But honestly, I mean a white christmas. I haven’t seen one in um.. well actually I can’t remember one. I saw Mac’s post the other day about a bit of snow. A little bit, must be a Canadian understatement thing, as the car outside was swallowed up by a drift and the house opposite disappeared. A “little bit” over here seems almost laughable now.

So poor ‘ol Santa won’t have anywhere to park his sleigh.

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