SNOW

[alancdavis]

Due to the obvious bad weather shall we post a snow report for where we live to maybe help in ant members travel plans

Barrow in Furness,Cumbria.........  2 or 3 cm light snow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,roads ok

[Anonymous]

Reading was a nightmare last night, left the office at 1600, the journey back to my house taked 30 mins in rush hour, took me FOUR HOURS!!
not too bad this morning, main roads have been gritted, still managed to whack the '2 into a kerb   s:evil: :evil: s:evil:  
no serious damage, just left the alloy a bit scraped, needed a refurb/replace anyway, will get alignment checked as well.
I was really impressed with its performance last night, quite a lot of sideways moevement but didnt get stuck once, had to push a few other cars though.

[uktotty]

Took my mate 11 hours to get 5 miles yesterday, so Reading and area are pretty bad with lots of abandoned vehicles.
Took some people 3 hours to leave the car park!

I wnt out for a drive last night and it was fun   s:bounce: :bounce: s:bounce:

[Thudd]

Starting to snow again here (Chesterfield, Derbyshire). Still got 2" from Sunday.

[AC]

Erm, perfect driving weather with me  s:scared: :scared: s:scared: , I'm at the foot of the Pennine's, East Lancashire, J21 off M62, halfway between Manchester and Leeds.



We've had over 10 inches (  s:wink: :wink: s:wink:  ) since Friday.  I dusted the 2 off yesterday, what you can see on the car is just what we've had today!  I'm thinking of turning the thing upside down, attaching a piece of rope to the towing eye and going off sledging 2'style  s:lol: :lol: s:lol: .

Happy blinkin Christmas everybody.

[Ilogik]

Not to bad here in Brum, the roads that weren't gritted or driven on a fair amount all seem very slippy though, but no more snow. Main routes are fine.

[normanh]

Hopefully South Essex is in the middle of a thaw most has gone now, just the ice left

normanh

[Mad Matt]

Wavre (26km south of Brussels in Belgium): Snow was up to my knee until yesterday. Minor roads were snow bound and still are, but the motorways were clear to Luxembourg.

First time with a lot of snow in the MR2. I found I was basically steering on the accelerator; turn the front wheels a bit and use the power to turn   s:D s:D  

I can't quite bring myself to invest in winter tyres, but perhaps I should.

Anyway, the snow is now turning to sleet so there may be some black ice as the temperature drops tonight.

[Anonymous]

Erm, perfect driving weather with me  s:scared: :scared: s:scared: , I'm at the foot of the Penine's, East Lancashire, J21 off M62, halfway between Manchester and Leeds.



We've had over 10 inches (  s:wink: :wink: s:wink:  ) since Friday.  I dusted the 2 off yesterday, what you can see on the car is just what we've had today!  I'm thinking of turning the thing upside down, attaching a piece of rope to the towing eye and going off sledging 2'style  s:lol: :lol: s:lol: .

Happy blinkin Christmas everybody.

Its exactly the same here.  s:lol: :lol: s:lol:    s:flame: :flame: s:flame:

[JudoKilli]

Most of the main roads in Essex are perfectly fine for normal driving now. Back roads, small streets and car parks are still very icy   s:P s:P

[ChrisHumes]

getting very icy up here is sunny newcastle, roads are shocking in places as council dont look to have been out gritting. mr2's a nightmare to drive (took the wife 1.5 hours to do a 20 min journey. I gave in and lent her my tt, superb in the snow, and fun if you want it to be!

[StuM]

Still lots of black ice to be aware of in Surrey and small pockets on snow on higher ground, but the worst has past.

[mrzwei]

Off to Germany on Thursday (not with the 2 though); M3, M25, M26, M20, Tunnel, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, all motorway except for the last bit so fingers crossed really. Live near Reading and there is nothing to add apart from the non activity by the local council. They used to grit before the problem given the accuracy of weather forcasting these days but hey ho.

[custardavenger]

Been Ok in Salisbury, But was a nightmare in Basingstoke yesterday. Had my 2 out for the first time since JAE maybe  s:shock: :shock: s:shock:  . Drive to town was fine. No problems, That was until I got home and couldn't get up the drive. Had to take a run at it and hope I could stop.

[Anonymous]

Off to Germany on Thursday... M20, Tunnel, France...

s:shock: :shock: s:shock:  

Best of luck mate, hope they get it open in time! I heard today that they're only just accepting passengers from Saturday, fingers crossed they empty the backlog by then for you.

[alancdavis]

All the snow has gone this morning in Barrow.......10 miles east it is terrible conditions on the roads......glad I live on the coast   s:) s:)

[Mad Matt]

@mrzwei

Seems to be clear through France and Belgium at least. A few inches arrived in the south overnight but the main roads seem unaffected. I believe Eurotunnel, as opposed to Eurostar, is only slightly delayed and should be OK as long as you've already got a ticket.

[Silverman]

Well that's got the introductory phase over.   Now stand by for a real dollop later this week, the men with
the seaweed and fircones predict.     s:evil: :evil: s:evil:    s:evil: :evil: s:evil:    s:evil: :evil: s:evil:

[DannyN]

Spent 2 hours shovelling ice from our drive and the edge of the street, it was 3" deep in parts and rock solid like concrete

[Anonymous]

WANT MOAR FREEZING SKY WATER HERE PLZ  s:( s:(

[enid_b]

its been raining here all day, and the road has frozen solid. we still have a good 8" of snow left in the back garden, even after it has been melting for 24 hours now.

official white christmas here too as well. snowed yesterday, albeit quite gently in comparison to the last few days.

got a really big shock when all the snow slid off the roof today. it was about 3 seconds after i had put my fag out, and was just closing the back door. it could have been monumentally funny for the other occupants of the house, but i managed to escape untarnished.

[enid_b]

and its snowing again quite heavily.

just getting me ready for my boarding trip tomorrow. oh, did i mention im off to Austria snowboarding for a week?    s:D s:D    s:D s:D    s:D s:D    s:D s:D    s:D s:D

[JudoKilli]

Tiny bit of snow in Chelmsford and Southend in Essex last night/this morning. Cold enough that it settled, so smaller roads can be quite slippery around here.

[blahpony]

This was a couple weeks ago. It's mostly melted since then.