Graeme
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nearly got stuck at the GYM, its up a 2 mile road that isnt gritted and on a steep downward slope!
On my way home i had to go up a hill, was met by a car rolling back down towards my car so went round him and on the fresh snow it was ok but if u went on others tracks it was so slippers, just made it up but i could feel the front wheels twitching badly!
[Edited on 21-12-2009 by Graeme]
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_Allan_
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Still there Ryzer?, you'll be packing your toothbrush to work next week 
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saj_123
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quote:
Originally posted by ryzer
yup. Bracknell where i work is just completely dead, mate of mine just went for a walk to see, he said it was soo quiet and eerie, but everyone had shut their engines down.
i wonder what i can get from the vending machine to sustain me.
Yea i live in Bracknell and i just got out of town in time before the roads became packed. Roads are not gritted either, was going sideways most of the time.
[Edited on 21-12-2009 by saj_123]
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Ojc
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UN FUCKING BELIEVEABLE
I went out at lunch at 1pm, went to the bank then on the way back to work it started coming down and traffic ground to a halt, I sat in the car and done 2.3 miles in 4 hours around Caversham.
I've left the Polo in a car park and walked to my mates then walked home.
So basically walked from Reading town centre to my house in the snow, just got in.
Rach had it even worse.
She started work at 8am, the last kid at her nursery got picked up at 22.30 and her and another had to wait until the kid got picked up.
They can fuck off if they think I'm going to work in the morning, I've just walked my journey to work in the road and it's an ice rink.
SNOW IS A SHITCUNT
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ryzer
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Registered: 18th Mar 03
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fucking ridiculous, (sp) got in at half nine, took nearly 50 mins, clear but sooooo icy, could only go 20 tops as i was worried i wasnt going to stop! its just sheet ice, a colleague of mine left brackers at 15:10 and only got to cemetary junction in reading at quarter past 10. seven hours. madness
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Cavey
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And I get pissed off at it taking me 20 mins to drive the 1.5 miles home from work.
Can't imagine how depressing it must be to take that long to do a simple trip!
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Ojc
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Where were the gritters? Surely they knew this was going to happen?
No snow ploughs and nothing.
It's sheet ice out there and I've still got to get the car home somehow.
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atz_49
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Here in Tamworth (Midlands, not far from Birmingham) there's no absolutely no snow. All roads functioning completely as normal. In fact it raining at the moment. It's beena typical grey December day. Hard to believe other parts have it so bad!
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antnee
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Can't you southern pansies afford gritters?
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Ojc
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It's beyond that now, ts a good 8 to 10" of snow out there and roads are sheet ice as it's not got above freezing for a week.
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Cosmo
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Gritters dont really do much with snow does it? Not thick snow anyway.
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Tomnova16
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my mate was stuck on the m40 between high wycombe and beaconsfield for ages, i saw on the news that john lewis high wycome was letting people in for food, so phoned him and he's on his way there now, tis crazy, my mrs has just got in, finished work at six, waited till 8 as was dead lock and only just got to maidenhead. i havent seen one gritter
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Graeme
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A friend of mine is a on call gritter driver (main job being farner) and he has been out every night here. Gets paid a fortune but says its not doing a great job as is sitting on the top of snow or ice.
Alot of snow here now and really hard to get out my street, worse part for me is that at the end of the street where its a T junction, at the oposite side to the junction where you stop is a 6 foot ditch, can see people ending up in there soon.
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micra_pete
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listen to you southerners fucking moaning, if this snows falls up north do you know what changes. Nothing at all, we just get on with it. Why? because we aren't southern.
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ryzer
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its bizarre, it was just pure ice, cars couldnt move anywhere there is a really steep hill to the left of the entrance to my work, and you need to get up said massive hill to get towards reading and the M4, so that was most of the problem. but i cant see it being any better tomorrow morning so balls to going in tomorrow.
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Hammer
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If it snows and you grit the roads then it snows again a few hours later surely there's not a lot you can do? I was thinking this earlier on when the roads were clear and it started snowing again. The traffic went from going 70 to 20 in the space of 30 seconds.
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ryzer
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quote:
Originally posted by micra_pete
listen to you southerners fucking moaning, if this snows falls up north do you know what changes. Nothing at all, we just get on with it. Why? because we aren't southern.
you are quite right, nothing changes, as not many people work up north. 
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micra_pete
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fair cop
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Ojc
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quote:
Originally posted by micra_pete
listen to you southerners fucking moaning, if this snows falls up north do you know what changes. Nothing at all, we just get on with it. Why? because we aren't southern.
Come down here right now and deal with it.
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daymoon
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snow? what snow? abit of ice but thats it 
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Tomnova16
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
quote:
Originally posted by micra_pete
listen to you southerners fucking moaning, if this snows falls up north do you know what changes. Nothing at all, we just get on with it. Why? because we aren't southern.
Come down here right now and deal with it.
i was thinkin the same
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micra_pete
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meant in jest loves.
looks rough.
[Edited on 22-12-2009 by micra_pete]
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antnee
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Surely if the gritters were out before it snowed, so the road is just wet, then keep going while its snowing it should be fine? They do that around here and we have no problems!! Saw gritters go past work 4 times between 5 and 9!!
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Ojc
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I've not seen a single gritted since 1pm but then if they had gone out on the roads they would have been stuck as well.
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VegasPhil
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Did you lot not have hours of pissing down rain before the snow came?
We had that, must have just washed the salt away.
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