Snow day.

Nigel Goodwin · Feb 5, 2009

Second day off work this week for snow, although today is my day off anyway

Went a walk in the snow, here's a picture from the end of our road looking down the hill. The headlights coming up the hill were a Landrover, with the biggest chunky tires you ever did see - obviously out for a play!.

ericgibbs · Feb 5, 2009

Nigel Goodwin said:
Second day off work this week for snow, although today is my day off anyway

Went a walk in the snow, here's a picture from the end of our road looking down the hill. The headlights coming up the hill were a Landrover, with the biggest chunky tires you ever did see - obviously out for a play!.

Perhaps this may help..

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Nameless1 · Feb 5, 2009

I am so envious! Blerry sunny South Africa with its warm oceans and palm trees! Who needs it??

But seriously, I wish it did snow (like that) closer to where I stay. Not something the average person gets to see very often over here.

Nigel Goodwin · Feb 5, 2009

Nameless1 said:
I am so envious! Blerry sunny South Africa with its warm oceans and palm trees! Who needs it??

Tough question!

But seriously, I wish it did snow (like that) closer to where I stay. Not something the average person gets to see very often over here.

We don't seem to get a lot here these days, but it does seem to go in cycles.

blueroomelectronics · Feb 5, 2009

Here in Toronto that would be considered a light dusting of snow.

Nameless1 · Feb 5, 2009

I've got close family somewhere in Toronto and have been considering coming there next December to enjoy a "white Christmas".

They just laughed when I told them...

blueroomelectronics · Feb 5, 2009

It's a balmy -17c this morning without the windchill.

Pommie · Feb 5, 2009

I heard a very interesting statistic about Land Rovers last week,

Ninety percent of all Land Rovers ever built are still on the road.

The other 10% made it home.

Mike.

Pommie · Feb 5, 2009

Currently around 25°C here but it is midnight.

North of here is currently flooded and may get hit with a cyclone in the next two days. When I say North I mean 60% of the state which is seven times bigger than the UK. The floods are 14M deep in some places!!

South of here (about 1000 miles) they had a heatwave last week, bush fires destroyed many homes and around 50 people died.

At least snow makes everything look pretty.

Mike.

Nigel Goodwin · Feb 5, 2009

blueroomelectronics said:
Here in Toronto that would be considered a light dusting of snow.

Yes I know, but it's enough here to shut everything down - doesn't help the local council don't have any salt left to treat the roads - not that they ever treat the road in the picture anyway.

Nigel Goodwin · Feb 5, 2009

Pommie said:
I heard a very interesting statistic about Land Rovers last week,

Ninety percent of all Land Rovers ever built are still on the road.

Joke or not, it's probably true - as they are aluminium bodied, they don't rust away like most cars.

HiTech · Feb 5, 2009

Nigel Goodwin said:
Second day off work this week for snow, although today is my day off anyway

What a complete tea cup you Brits are! Where I live, right now it's -3° F, and we have a total accumulative snowfall of 130 inches. Schools here don't close unless there's 6"-8" imminent. It's business as usual. And no I don't live in Alaska or upper Husdon Bay! This is what we get for living near the Great Lakes and having Canada as a neighboring country, sending her Alberta Clippers our way as they pick up moisture off the lakes, dumping huge amounts of snow.
I think I'm gonna go visit AudioGuru and crack him on the head with my snowshovel!

And while an aluminum bodied Rover may not rust away, in my location it will corrode and pit from the heavy, extensive use of road salts and chlorides used for snow and ice management. After this winter season ends, the Great Lakes may no longer be the world's largest body of fresh water... once all the road salts have melted their way into feeder streams and rivers!

audioguru · Feb 5, 2009

HiTech said:
I think I'm gonna go visit AudioGuru and crack him on the head with my snowshovel!

Please come and help me shovel the snow.
I have shovelled my driveway abot 20 times this winter and the piles of snow on each side are about 2.5m high. My street is white maybe with salt or packed snow.

A few days ago on a warm day I saw a fox running up my street.

picbits · Feb 5, 2009

We had a light sprinkling of snow here today.

Managed to make this with littleun before he got bored

Its about 7 foot tall

picbits · Feb 5, 2009

And another one of the street ....

microtexan · Feb 5, 2009

snow day

Nigel Goodwin said:
Second day off work this week for snow, although today is my day off anyway

Went a walk in the snow, here's a picture from the end of our road looking down the hill. The headlights coming up the hill were a Landrover, with the biggest chunky tires you ever did see - obviously out for a play!.

Nigel, quite a picturesque scene. We had about 2 inches of snow (27 year record) here in So. Texas last month. What a blast!

PhillDubya · Feb 5, 2009

Nigel, quite a picturesque scene. We had about 2 inches of snow (27 year record) here in So. Texas last month. What a blast!

Yes, snow here in Texas, is definitely not ordinary. Here in the Caprock we got a whole 1/2 inch of sleet so far this winter.

Nigel Goodwin · Feb 5, 2009

PhillDubya said:
Yes, snow here in Texas, is definitely not ordinary. Here in the Caprock we got a whole 1/2 inch of sleet so far this winter.

I thought everything was bigger and better in Texas?, don't you get 20 feet of snow a week?

HiTech · Feb 5, 2009

audioguru said:
HiTech said:

I think I'm gonna go visit AudioGuru and crack him on the head with my snowshovel!
Please come and help me shovel the snow.
I have shovelled my driveway abot 20 times this winter and the piles of snow on each side are about 2.5m high. My street is white maybe with salt or packed snow.

A few days ago on a warm day I saw a fox running up my street.

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AG, at least your shovel can be used for snow--- ours aren't effective anymore! Even the plow on my truck is only capable of pushing the stuff around (typically to someone else's yard!!!). We are now using high-lift front loaders and dump trucks to either stack it or haul it away. I have a pile on my street that is between 10-12 feet high and most driveways are piled so high, oncoming drivers have no clue if someone is exiting their driveway. If this keeps up, folks here will get short tempered with each other as sometimes happens during late February or March.

microtexan · Feb 5, 2009

Snow Day

Nigel Goodwin said:
I thought everything was bigger and better in Texas?, don't you get 20 feet of snow a week?

Well Nigel, you're assuming bigger (more snow) is better. Not down here where most people haven't a clue about how to drive in the "snow".

Snow day.

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