Snows Begun

Brendan

Brendan

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Right - the weather people were right.

Snowing like the arctic outside !!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr...
 
Brendan, it's snowing so much outside I may not be able to make it down the drive for the second time this year.



munk
 
Sounds like a severe case of hotcocoa-itis to me. Later hotcocoa-itis can lead to nappytime syndrome.
 
Brendan, its mightily cold down here but no snow yet. Jeez, these 'merikans dont know what they are talking about with sevear weather, you aint seen nothing until you have staggered across the frozen tundra of North London, 6 inches of snow in temperatures of -2!!!

Apparently its going to snow here tomorrow, I have dug out my Russian cold weather gear just incase it gets a bit nippy tomorrow.
 
we just had 6 inches in 30 minutes, hope i can work tomorrow

i am going to play ..........
 
Originally posted by Aardvark
Whadda you mean??? It must be down to 50 right now!
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Sorry, I was being ironic. It is rediculous, in Norway, Canada and other places you can have 6 foot snow banks and there is no problem, here, 6 inches of snow brought north london to a standstill, 2 inches of the 'wrong kind of snow' can stop the rail network and there aren't enough gritting vans to keep the roads clear. Its just daft!
 
For heavens sakes- the wind chill is 40 below zero a few miles from my location, and the last time I checked, Britain had no Rocky Mountains. Just what is the tallest mound in England, anyway?




munk
 
Yeah, 50 in So Cal is a shock. When it drops below freezing everyone gets excited.




munk
 
wow - that was cool !!


27 years old and I just built my first snow man, made a snow angel, pelted the neighbours dog with snowballs (cats were too quick) !!

hehehehehe

now for some horlicks - the north east rocks man !!
 
Crooked knife; one year it was slated to fall below freezing and the News cautioned us about it. I must have put three sleeping bags on my cot.

Next morning I looked out my backdoor- everything much the same. "I guess I survived."


Wish I'd kept some of the smudge pots in my Parents Orange Grove. THey're worth money now, naturally.

munk
 
Hee Hee Hee! You guys are funny. We had one winter here in Central utah where I high was 15 degress durring the day. the low was about -25. Brendan showed me pics of the snow. Looks cold over there in England right now. We got 13" in one day and nothing was closed down. 2 feet of snow and I was still trugging threw it to school.

By the way, I am from Southern California and my second winter here was the worst one. I like the snow. But wish we would see more sun light and blue sky instead of all the clouds and fog we have been having for the last month. I think I've seen the sky 2 or 3 times here in Provo since Christmas.:eek: Maybe I'll have to make another trip to Central Utah, they may have more snow, but they also have more Sun.
 
Oh, come on, we had 2 days last week where the high was 0. The Low was -20, and thats cold. Everyone is happy when the high gets to 20 because it's so warm. It actually does make a difference. My poor old dogs, it's rough on their feet. They start out ok, but really start to limp quickly and you have to watch in case you have to go pick them up and carry them back in.
 
Bad weather? We're having our share of it here, let me tell you. The wind is gusting clear up to about 10 knots and it's overcast and drizzling in Monterey. I went outside just now at 4 pm. and it's hard to see the hills because of the fog coming in, and the temp is all the way down to about 60F. Brrr!

Of course, Californians are unused to such miserable weather so the number of car crashes outside has about tripled today.

regards,

Svashtar
 
When I was a kid, It didn’t matter if it was summer or winter. I spent as much time as I could camping in the woods. I would have my parents drive me out, drop me off and come back in a couple of days and pick me up.

I remember this one time it got so cold that my friend and I decided to go home early as we were spending all our time just trying to keep warm. In those days, a down sleeping bag was a luxury that none of my friends could afford, so all we had were cheap bags stuffed with a couple of pounds of kapok and lined with a wool blanket.

My mother wasn’t due to pick us up until the next day, but we didn’t want to spend another night so we decided to pack up and hike about five miles to a phone and call her to come get us.

That was easier said than done because our tent, an army surplus pup tent, had frozen and we couldn’t fold it up. We had to drag it along behind us like a sheet of plywood. We were in fairly thick forest so we were constantly getting hung up on trees and brush. We finally made it to the road and were laying there exhausted when a truck came along and gave us a ride to the little store where the phone was.

I remember how great it felt to get home take a hot shower and sit in front of the stove and put my feet in the oven. We later found out that it had gotten down to 18 below zero. I never cared much for winter camping after that.
 
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