There is only one topic, others are less important when roads are blocked with snow. I was wrong about the depth of the snow mind, I expected three or four inches and that is what we got here however the back roads to the south of the town have been filled by snow drifting off the fields and heaping up on the roads. Council snowploughs and gritter lorries keep the main roads working. But the back roads in many places impassable.
Of course some on the M80 in Scotland, who should know better, ignored all warnings and got trapped overnight on the motorway. Now they are complaining about the Scots government not doing enough to keep roads open but not blaming themselves for not carrying emergency supplies or indeed for setting out in spite of all warnings not to! We are such selfish people we want everything we want and we want it now, if we don't get it it is someone else's fault!
You note I have little sympathy for them.
Here the museum like many other organisations has closed, schoolteachers as well as kids hide at home for the most part, mums are afraid it is too cold for wee johnny yet others drag the kids round the shops, people are desperate to fill the shelves today, and yet others fling snow at one another or sledge down hills. I am not one of them! I went to Tesco for bread yesterday, I naturally run out of everything yesterday and journeyed in a blizzard for stuff. The blizzard ceased as I got hope and only now a day later has returned. I think we are nearing the end of this 'Beast.'
This does mean the football is up the spout of course. Only one league game might go ahead tomorrow in Scotland though the cup games appear to be on. It is not just the state of the pitches it is the roads round about, buses and trains cannot get through and teams cannot get to their destinations. This after a mid term shut down in January which we all knew was a daft time to stop as snow always comes in February! This time at least all suffer together rather than in dribs and drabs.
There is a bit of a fuss about the temperature. These days we record this in Celsius which means the weather at the moment is recorded as minus two, however if we record in Fahrenheit the temperature is a mere 29 degrees which is much better to my way of thinking. To reach Zero F we would see a recording of Minus 17 C and that would look good on the charts. It is when the minus is Fahrenheit we need to worry I say, mind you with the wind chill it was probably close to that as I walked down the slippery roads this morning. In Siberia, you may wish to know, the kids do not get off school until it is Minus 37. Fahrenheit I believe. Do you still consider it cold...?
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Snowed in with Mother.... no shopping delivered, no public transport or taxis though even had I been able to reach the shops I would have found empty shelves.
Needless to say mother, as always, is well supplied with tins.... I just wonder if some of them date from the last big freeze in the sixties...
Beautiful picture in black and white
Yes, that is cold! Don't the folks in Siberia expect the cold and snow and have furs and other warm clothing? That is a big difference!
Nice photo of the snow! Stay warm.
Fly, If you were closer I could have loaned you a loaf of Tesco bread! I note in Scotland all the white bread shelves are empty, the wholemeal ones full! That tells you something. Tins keep well and the 60's are just yesterday...
Suza, Thank you. Easy in this light.
Kay, The folks here expect it too but are always shocked when it arrives.
You were lucky to get some bread, the local Co Op was virtually bare and the girl there said it had been ridiculous with customers buying stuff that they never normally buy.
Alas, people these days do not know what snow is. Back in my day, I had to dig out from under a foot and a half of snow to get out of bed every morning--even in the summer time! It took me over two weeks to dig out during the winter of '73. Now, that was a wee bit of snow!
Dave, The main roads were cleared quickly and the town got supplies in easily. It was outlying places and the side streets that left people blocked in. The snowplough passed me first thing that morning and kept the way open. Panic buying happened in many places.
Jerry, Yes but that was US snow, a light easy to deal with snow used in making ice cream, not the real snow we get direct from the Arctic via Siberia. That is hard snow ans difficult to deal with - the rain washed it away mind.
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