BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?

Subject: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:08 AM

There's a lot of white stuff coming down from the sky. Anyone know what it is? It's already covered everything in sight.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:12 AM

Snow joke is it. None in Lincolnshire as yet but expect it later today.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 03:49 AM

Here be wisdom, don't eat yellow snow.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Charmain
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:04 AM

White stuff - what white stuff? We're too near the sea - it never snows round here - how depressing to look across Morecambe Bay and see the Lakeland mountains covered in snow with not a flake in site on our side of the water...

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Rasener
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:07 AM

Is it milk ?

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Crane Driver
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:13 AM

Nothing here on the South Wales coast either - there may have been a bit overnight, but it's gone now. Patches of blue sky showing, and the sun's trying to break through.

Best of luck to our inland friends.

Andrew & Carole

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Rasener
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:17 AM

Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't too many clouds in sight
It's stopped snowin' ev'rybody's in a play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day hey,hey

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: sian, west wales
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:27 AM

We've got what the locals think is 'snow' here in Carmarthen but, as a Canadian born and bred, I laugh: Ha!

Call that snow? (((mutter mutter))) It ain't snow til ya have to leave your house by an upstairs window!

sian

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:30 AM

How come life as we know it in the UK comes to a virtual standstill whenever snow arrives after a couple of days of warnings ? Kids are over the moon 'cos schools are shut, commuters can't commute etcetc. Are we the only country in Europe that's paralyzed by snow in this way ?.
Yours without much white stuff fB.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Splott Man
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:32 AM

Loads of radio warnings against travelling to work this morning. So I ignored them and got in in record time. Everybody else stayed home.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:44 AM

Stoke-on-Trent is certainly gripped by white-out horror. Not an inch, but at least a centimetre. And it all looks very pretty. In order to leave our house we have to go either up or down the steepest bank in the potteries, so I think I'll just have another cup of coffee and look at the trees. Maybe record some hornpipes. Maybe have a little snooze.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:45 AM

Country would rather spend the money on guns and bombs than on snow clearing machinery mate. Then of course there's the added joy they get from spreading corrosive salt that eats our cars,on the roads!
We have snow up here every winter almost, and still have poorly managed road clearing and gritting, so fear not folks in the south, you're not alone.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: GUEST,Richard Bridge elsewhere
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:50 AM

Well, I drove about 60 miles with no difficulty, to lecture at Broadstairs. The hardest part was walking across the car park. Having allowed extra time I am now sat on my arse wasting time with nothing to do until lecture start time.

We'll see how many studenta arrive.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Stu
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:53 AM

"Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't too many clouds in sight
It's stopped snowin' ev'rybody's in a play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day hey,hey"

Music to an expat Brummie's ears! Long live Lord jeff Lynne of Shard End.

Up the Villa! Right up the Blues!

Bostin!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 04:58 AM

More snow than we have had for years.
Kids are happy to have a day off to play in it, but not as happy as us teachers!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:04 AM

I always feel sorry for working parents when this happens, they must be forced to lose a day's work/pay if they have to stay home to look after school-less but happy, kids.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: My guru always said
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:08 AM

Got a fair amount of white here in Surrey & the birds are all very happy about our heated bird-bath Richard installed for their convenience at times such as this!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:37 AM

When I have been in Romania in the winter....I have seen the kids waking up to over a foot of snow in the morning and going to school through it for 7am start.....A bit of snow and apparently all schools in Birmingham are closed....why?

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: jimlad9
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:49 AM

Up here in the norf' where men are men and so are the women the white stuff that is troubling the suvverners is known as frost!.

I'm off now to shift the frost that is covering our downstairs windows

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:49 AM

It's not Romania?

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 05:56 AM

Dandruff? A quick bath and hairwash should clear it up...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Hrothgar
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:06 AM

It snowed here about 16,000 years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Cats
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:10 AM

Not a snowflake in sight. I am seriously miffed! When Bodmin Moor [Cornwall] had snow last year I was in Birmingham and missed it. Now I'm at home and still missing it.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Peace
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:17 AM

We have it here, too. Chicken Little was right!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:20 AM

'Snow place like home!

Jenny, who is sitting in front of the fan on a warm summer's evening in Sydney, Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Rasener
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:48 AM

Birmingham City Council said all its schools were closed due to the travel disruption.

From the Birmingham Post
A forecaster for MeteoGroup UK, said that about 7cm (just short of 3 inches) of snow had fallen since the early hours of Thursday.


He said the weather was "the most widespread snow event of the winter," adding: "We just haven't had this sort of thing in recent years."


The Highways Agency said salt-spreading vehicles were on stand-by in the region, which thought to be one of the worst hit areas.


It advised drivers not to travel unless their journey was essential, and to bring warm clothes, food, water, boots, de-icer, a torch and spade on long journeys.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Rasener
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:55 AM

A lot of the times, its the teachers that have the problem getting in, becuase they don't live close enough to the schools.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:58 AM

That's because they build schools either in places where the teacher can't afford to live, or in places where they wouldn't want to live.

G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 06:58 AM

There is a generation of motorists who have all the theory of cold weather but - my - is it a surprise to them that it causes log-jams and has to be treated with respect.

You would think the government would do something about it!

Shall we start with education?

Can the "ME!" generation cope with community spirit? Other people? Nature? let's look at the evidence...................

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: *daylia*
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:20 AM

This is what my place looks like today      Whooo-hoooo!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:20 AM

Trying to weigh up here just how badly I want to go out and do some errands ...Plenty of snow here, although not at Canadian levels. Or Moscow. Or Maine. Or Boston. Yes, I've experienced all of those. Husband left at 6.30 am to get to Coventry, made it in good time. The fun time for us comes if it freezes tonight, which will then make it almost impossible to get out of our road.

Anne
high on a hill in Pontypool

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: GUEST,Phot at work
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:21 AM

We had about two inches in Aldershot at half five this morning, which made the drive to Portsmouth very pretty this morning, most people still driving like twits though! Why I bothered washing the Disco yesterday I don't know!!

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:23 AM

Very Hansel and Gretel Daylia!
G

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Rasener
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:33 AM

>>That's because they build schools either in places where the teacher can't afford to live, or in places where they wouldn't want to live<<

Exactly Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Gizmo
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:36 AM

We very rarely get a good amount of snow in the SE of London, the clouds usually come from the North, so are heated up as they cross over the Smoke.

But this morning for 5 hours non-stop we got snow, to cover the snow we had in the night.

Usually my children barely make a snowman 5 inches high.

A few weeks ago it was their record at a grand old foot high snowman. This morning my son made one about 4 3/4 foot high, and made a little friend for it at about 2 foot high.

He was so excited.

I won the snowball fight with him on the wat to school though. My trick was to get lots of good snowballs, rather than he who tried to get the biggest snowball.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:43 AM

Dandruff? A quick bath and hairwash should clear it up...

Ah, so that's what "White Hare" was about :D

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Midchuck
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:50 AM

How come life as we know it in the UK comes to a virtual standstill whenever snow arrives after a couple of days of warnings ? Kids are over the moon 'cos schools are shut, commuters can't commute etcetc. Are we the only country in Europe that's paralyzed by snow in this way ?

Same thing happens in the US when they get any significant snow in the southern half. We in the northern half laugh our heads off. People down there react to 3 inches of snow like we do to 3 feet. Meanwhile we worry about not enough snow, since we need the people down there to come up here to ski, bringing lots of money. (Of course, when they do come, they come in large SUVs, assuming they can drive as fast in snow as in dry weather because they have four wheel drive. That's great if you're in the towing and wrecking business, but a little nerve-wracking for the rest of us.)

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: *daylia*
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 07:53 AM

And for the love of Winter, here in Barrie Ontario, we take Polar Bear Dips!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: jimlad9
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:11 AM

When I was in Canada I was persuaded to do what those loonies from Barrie are shown doing
I came out so quick that I left a hole in the water,

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: nutty
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:30 AM

The country only goes into panic mode when it snows in the south.

The NORTH has been coping with such conditions for years with never a murmur.

BUT - let a snow flake fall on the south of England and on London in particular and it would seem that the sky has fallen in.

It rarely lasts more that 48 hours.
People on the Continent have to endure such conditions for WEEKS.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: JeremyC
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:38 AM

Hey, snow is disconcerting when you're not used to it. Me, I just moved to Cincinnati from Sacramento, and I've determined, after the snowfall two days ago, that snow sucks and I'd prefer never to see it again. Yet I can't move back to California. :( Depressing.

Oh, and I've driven in fog so thick it looks like there's a wall right in front of the windshield, or in heavy rain that makes it impossible to see more than 10 feet ahead, on highway 1 (a two-lane road that goes down the coast on the side of a cliff in many places), but driving in snow is the absolute most stressfull driving experience I've ever had. I don't know how people here can deal with it, never mind the people in Europe who are like "six feet of snow? psssh. Time to walk to work!"

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: MMario
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 08:41 AM

*grin* a friend in Washington DC compained a few weeks ago they had predicted flurries and they got almost 2 inches. We in the north hastened to assure her 2 inches *was* only "flurries"...

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: kendall
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:37 AM

When we have to poke around with a pole to find the chimmney, that's a bit more than a dusting.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: *daylia*
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 09:40 AM

oh no ..... dropped my shovel ......

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Anne Lister
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 10:09 AM

What I enjoy, now that I've been to Canada and Russia, is Brits who say "no, it's too cold to snow".   This is when it's maybe ...ooh... three degrees below freezing?

Anne

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 10:18 AM

The U.S. has comparable north/south snow experiences. I live in North Texas now, and the most snow I've seen here over the last 20 years is about six inches, and that is extremely rare. Usually every couple of years we get an ice storm or enough snow that the kids get a snow day. When snow is that uncommon municipalities aren't heavily invested in snow removal or treatment equipment, so they accommodate it as best they can with gravel trucks sprinkling sand and crossing their fingers that folks stay home or drive slow. But even having grown up in Northwestern Washington state I remember plenty of years when the first big snow of the season caught drivers by surprise and those who forgot to slow down sufficiently were the ones being pulled out of the ditches. It usually settled down to a slow drive pattern for the rest of the winter season. There are so many from out-of-state living there now that I don't know if it is still the same. Here in Texas, when confronted with those conditions I know how to drive on ice and snow but prefer not to, because I'm afraid I'll be hit by a clueless local driver.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Scrump
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 10:47 AM

Well, it's stopped here. Dunno if it will still be there tomorrow (I was hoping it was, because I would like to work at home tomorrow too).

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 11:08 AM

I absolutely love snow and absolutely hate slush; we just haven't had enough snow in Yorkshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:25 PM

We had about a millimetre here today. Just enough to get the kids high as kites and then really fed up when it had all melted by playtime!

Subject: RE: BS: Agh! What's all this white stuff?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Feb 07 - 02:33 PM

Easy to go just as fast on snow. Stopping and steering are harder though!