Snow

[lonelymom]

We've got over a foot of snow, it started early Monday evening and hasn't stopped since, so there's nearly 3 days' worth on top of my car, which is now buried. I just measured and it's 36cm deep in my garden, and isn't forecast to stop for another few days. I HATE SNOW!!!! I live in a village and can't even get into town to try to get some Christmas shopping done, in fact I can't do anything except housework.... someone please come and rescue me?

[wickedwitch]

ooh, just had a phone call from daughter the first (and mates) saying that they are on 'lockdown' and running out of carbs. I did suggest that they pool their tuck resources should emergency aid not arrive by Saturday but someone then remembered that pasta is a carb so they might be ok. I was about to suggest that they try the Atkins diet when i heard someone in the background exclaim that they might run out of sausages - i restrained myself from remarking that they might want to roast the person with the lowest GPA to ensure survival of the 'mental'est.....

DAughter is very sad that her survival parcel has not yet arrived. I explained that i had only sent it first class and not by RAF. Sadly it has her mittens and chocolate supply in. Ah well!

Does anyone know if the Christmas Fair is going ahead? It seems our village school might be postponing ours as we are fairly snowbound. SAnta is supposed to be driving down from Birmingham tomorrow so probably for the best.

x

[wickedwitch]

ooh lonelymum - if i start on on the sledge from my village and you start from your village, we should be able to meet in Staplehurst by this evening for a pint!

[sejintenej]

DAughter is very sad that her survival parcel has not yet arrived. I explained that i had only sent it first class and not by RAF. Sadly it has her mittens and chocolate supply in. Ah well!
x

Moments before reading this I had been wondering whether the RAF, that protector of our skies and first arm of our national defence against the barbarian hordes, is able to get its fighter jets aloft or whether their charioteers too are mess bound.

[J.R.]

Two nights and one day of snow in what was 'Leafy' Dorking. Just over a foot of snow on our garden shed roof.

Surrey Police advising people NOT to drive unless 100% necessary !

I can't get to my local. Corner shop shut.

If anyone talks about the dangers of global warning when I eventually get out of my house, I will happily arrange some free dental work !

[lonelymom]

ooh lonelymum - if i start on on the sledge from my village and you start from your village, we should be able to meet in Staplehurst by this evening for a pint!

That would be lovely wickedwitch, however, if I got on my sledge at the top of Linton Hill, with no braking facilities available I think I might get up such as speed as to miss the Cranbrook turn-off and end up on Hastings seafront! Then it would be a long, long, long walk home, up the nasty Linton Hill again

[Jo]

Two nights and one day of snow in what was 'Leafy' Dorking. Just over a foot of snow on our garden shed roof.

Surrey Police advising people NOT to drive unless 100% necessary !

I can't get to my local. Corner shop shut.

If anyone talks about the dangers of global warning when I eventually get out of my house, I will happily arrange some free dental work !

Oh, didn't you know? It's not global warming any more, it's 'climate change' I guess it got too embarrassing trying to explain increasingly colder winters so they just changed the goalposts, sorry, did some more research so that they can now beat us up about any extreme weather conditions, hot or cold.

[kerrensimmonds]

It's amazing, isn't it, how life comes to a halt? I'm the first to admit that I am not going outdoors today (and probably not tomorrow, either....) but everything has stopped. Yes we are all working from home - viz two Estate Agents and my solicitor both have calls routed from their offices to their homes. I have never been so busy, advising students by phone and e mail what to do if they can't get work in today/sit exams tomorrow. So maybe it's easier to give in to the weather than once it was? I remember driving from Arundel to Guildford and back, daily, in horrendous weather conditions in the late 1970's - for weeks there were snowdrifts either side of the road at the top of Bury Hill, twice as high as my car. That I even attempted these journeys astounds me now, but of course I was much younger then...

[J.R.]

Just picked up the forecast for the RH4 area for the next 24 hours.

Snow dying out, but temperatures COULD drop to -12 overnight.

Just heard from a friend who managed to get to work at Gatwick Airport. Lunch-time rumour is that the airport COULD be closed for another 36 hours !

[jhopgood]

Just picked up the forecast for the RH4 area for the next 24 hours.

Snow dying out, but temperatures COULD drop to -12 overnight.

Just heard from a friend who managed to get to work at Gatwick Airport. Lunch-time rumour is that the airport COULD be closed for another 36 hours !

As long as it is open for the 9th and 14th, I don't mind any more.
I am reliably misinformed (by a Guardian blogger), that Gatwick is built in a hollow and normally gets worse weather than other airports.
You would have thought that they would have known that and been prepared.
My son has just phoned from Arlanda, to say that his flight to Heathrow was delayed but boarding had started.

[kerrensimmonds]

Certainly the worst of the weather has swept across a corridor south of London, from the east. The M25 has been particularly badly affected, as has most of Surrey - and East and West Sussex, not to mention Kent.
Tonight the snow will die out but will be replaced by plummeting temperatures, and freezing fog tomorrow. Anyone venturing out?

[Katharine]

Here in the wild west we have hardly any snow. It is on the mountains and we had it last week before the south east did but not since. It is very cold but dry at the moment. I have spent much of today out at a street stall in aid of our local children's hospice. We had live music and carol singers and made about £300 which wasn't too bad, but we did get frozen!

[wickedwitch]

ooh lonelymum - if i start on on the sledge from my village and you start from your village, we should be able to meet in Staplehurst by this evening for a pint!

That would be lovely wickedwitch, however, if I got on my sledge at the top of Linton Hill, with no braking facilities available I think I might get up such as speed as to miss the Cranbrook turn-off and end up on Hastings seafront! Then it would be a long, long, long walk home, up the nasty Linton Hill again

hmm could be a bad idea!! Perhaps we should wait until thaw ! Apparently hubby made it into London but i'll be surprised if he attempts to make it back tonight.

[midget]

Here in the wild west we have hardly any snow. It is on the mountains and we had it last week before the south east did but not since. It is very cold but dry at the moment. I have spent much of today out at a street stall in aid of our local children's hospice. We had live music and carol singers and made about £300 which wasn't too bad, but we did get frozen!

In the slightly less wild southwest we have had very little snow, and what there was has thawed quickly. We do however have frozen pavements, and I almost came to grief last Friday, but fortunately slid into a fence, which I was able to grab.

[kerrensimmonds]

Lucky Maggie and Katharine! This white stuff seems to have blown in from the East, in volume and in force. And there is nothing anyone could do about it....