Monkeys Fist 42482 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 My FB feed is full of people saying how long its taken them to get home. One of the joys of self employment- check weather forecast, take day off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill 0 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 2 hours from town to Killingworth, though around the first half hour was spent waiting for a bus that had no intention of ever turning up. Stupid to have waited around in hindsight rather than just setting off any way possible. After getting on a metro and walking part of the way I managed to score for a lift from a colleague. Most traumatic part was having to bring the bins in when I got home, and a cat trying to run into my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Four hours and thirty eights fucking minutes. Left mackemland and and reached the A1 nee bother then everything stopped. Washinton services down to Chester le St was mental. I wasnt going to come off there as I heard that Stanley was stationary. I was going to take a rabbit run I know but I need to go through CLS to get to it so didnt bother. I went down to the A690 with the idea of going through durham, fucking nightmare. Usually takes 45mins and get him just before 6. I got home half nine. A lot due to black ice making roads impassable (hills anyway). But a hell of a lot basically down to stupid fucking people with no idea how to drive in poor weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) I got home no bother really but one of the side roads I usually cut down was an absolute death trap, just one massive skating rink and I thought I might come a cropper. Main roads were ok, but by the sounds of it I got really lucky. This morning was a piece of piss getting in as there seemed to be very little traffic on the road, don't think people fancied driving in today..few days off pulled or going by public transport.. Edited December 6, 2012 by sweetleftpeg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4729 Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) Aye, its the side roads where you are always more likely to come a cropper and as JawD says, the amount of people who seem to have no clue about driving on snow or ice is scary. Just tried to take the little lad for a walk down the lane but its just freezing cold and ice everywhere. Much better idea was a tory raid on pensions snaffling the tin of shortbread biscuits that were destined for an old Aunt and dunking in a warm cup of tea. (They will be replaced ) Edited December 6, 2012 by Christmas Tree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10876 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Good Grief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4774 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Left manchester at 5, just got home to burnley now, had to get off the bus and walk the last mile and a half thanks to...THE SNOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Lots and lots and LOTS of rain in Manchester. For a fucking change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christmas Tree 4729 Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 From Sky Britain is facing a weather front dubbed the "Beast from the East" next week - with heavy snow and sub-zero temperatures. Temperatures could plummet as low as -6C around London as icy winds blow in over the eastern coast. Forecasters are also predicting "lots of snow" from Monday - "obliterating" East Anglia and spreading to southeastern areas. By Tuesday and Wednesday there could be significant accumulation of snow along much of the eastern side of Britain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35120 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 The Met Office seem to disagree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I for one hope it doesn't hit London as we'll never hear the fucking end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35120 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 The Daily Express are the wort with their predictions of weather doom. I think they reckoned it was going to be -16c last weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15561 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I've never fully understood what the point of that kind of reporting is. We can't change owt about it so why let it push Wills/Kate from the front pages? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4774 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 In stark contract to yesterday its a lovely day today, sunny, bit warmer than it has been, snow and slush all melting away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 33282 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 "There'll be some weather tomorrow, some more the day after and all through next week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 The Met Office seem to disagree. The met office said it wouldnt snow this week tbf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveTheBobby 1 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21965 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 "There'll be some weather tomorrow, some more the day after and all through next week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35120 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 The met office said it wouldnt snow this week tbf Thought the Beeb got their forecast off the Met Office. The Beeb said it would snow on Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 http://m.travel.aol.co.uk/2012/12/06/snow-chaos-because-met-office-got-the-forecast-wrong/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35120 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 That says snow fell more more widely than expected, not that the Met Office said it wouldn't snow at all. Nice try though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 They said it wouldn't snow at all in various different parts of the country where it did snow, if you want to play the semantics game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35120 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) I'm not disagreeing. That article infers I was correct in my original statement though so thanks for posting it. Edited December 10, 2012 by Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7034 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Which original statement would that be? That the met office said it's not going to snow this week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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