Nick Cooper Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Hello, the BBC (UK TV Station) posted this to show us how bad road conditions are. The caption was" A snow plough clears a road in Shaftesbury, Dorset." A better caption might have been "A barrel being scraped for a picture." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobnobs Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I was watching an episode of Ice Pilots NWT this morning and somehow I don't think us Brits know what "extreme weather" is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabretooth78 Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 I could post pictures of any number of roads around me right now that would put that one to shame! It is sunny now, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Where is the snow? come on nick and explain to a french guy what ---A barrel being scraped for a picture--- You UK people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmorin Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Benny said: Where is the snow? come on nick and explain to a french guy what ---A barrel being scraped for a picture--- You UK people Looks like Maine. You have to love it to live where we do. Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 29 minutes ago, gregmorin said: Looks like Maine It's in PEI Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted February 1, 2019 Author Share Posted February 1, 2019 34 minutes ago, Benny said: Where is the snow? come on nick and explain to a french guy what ---A barrel being scraped for a picture--- You UK people Our UK press just love to tell us how bad it is and you can see in the picture just how bad it really is (not). "Scraping the barrel" means trying to make something out of nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Just now, Nick Cooper said: "Scraping the barrel" Thanks, I never heard this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 There you go Nick, just for you, taken 5 min ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying_fish Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 We were trapped in Devon Yesterday!! Remember this Nick? The shovel is in my shed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesrob Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 A lot of the media is run by fairly young folk, and it is likely that they have never seen real snow in the UK, so any snowfall is a big event. It happens so infrequently these days that a lot of public services don't know how to deal with it. in my younger days in the 50s if the school bus didn't turn up we'd walk the 2 or 3 miles to school in the snow, and make the most of it. Health and Safety nowadays don't even let you sweep the snow outside your home as someone may slip and sue . Rob, in High Wycombe UK, and I've just swept a bit of snow from my front path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F737MAX Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 1 hour ago, Nick Cooper said: Our UK press just love to tell us how bad it is and you can see in the picture just how bad it really is (not). That looks like every road on the valley floor of the European Alps at winter, before you even get up to the ski resorts at altitude - this really is a nothing event. 22 minutes ago, jonesrob said: A lot of the media is run by fairly young folk, and it is likely that they have never seen real snow in the UK, so any snowfall is a big event. It happens so infrequently these days that a lot of public services don't know how to deal with it. Very likely. It's such an infrequent occurrence to get more than a centimetre or two of snow in the UK on anywhere other than on high ground, that makes it hard to keep people's skills up and knowledge current to deal with it. So we end up flailing around for a few days to a week every other year. 49 minutes ago, flying_fish said: We were trapped in Devon Yesterday!! Remember this Nick? Trapped? That's nothing a set of snow chains couldn't fix. But as I said above, it's rare to have more than a centimetre or two of snow in the UK on anywhere other than on high ground. The main road to the right of your picture looks in rather good condition. @Benny Your photo looks amazing, but I know I couldn't deal with that much snow for months and months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 We've had a few centimetres of the white stuff in Bristol. All the schools are shut, no-one has gone to work, it's now raining blood, and the dead are rising from the grave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 A friend of mind that just left Canada last week live in Halifax (UK), that was just on his FB a few minute ago, it made me laugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying_fish Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 40 minutes ago, F737NG said: That's nothing a set of snow chains couldn't fix You can wear 'em as you help Nick shovel the snow off my drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 And that's here in Austria. BTW what the guys in the pic are digging out is a two storey villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Benny said: There you go Nick, just for you, taken 5 min ago Looks like my backyard , next week here our first cold weather of the season hits . 0 F at night , 20 F in the day . John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 This is the Brits reaction to a bit of snow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 25 minutes ago, BradB said: 0 F at night , 20 F in the day . -25F at night and 5F daytime here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 You guys are talking about Snow and Cold meanwhile Australia and New Zealand have had the hottest summer on record. When it is cold you can put something on and you are warm, when it is hot you can take everything off and it is still hot. For us Fires are imminent at this point and I am not looking forward to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 "Well, for goodness' sake," he pauses to spit into the wind, "when I was a boy, we had real snow. The flakes were big as pie-plates and they came down steady from December through February." He pauses again to remember the good old days more clearly. "When it came time to dig out, it took a crew of twenty men just to uncover a chicken coop. And when they finally plowed the roads, they'd find whole lost herds of commuters frozen in huddled packs. These kids today, they don't know what snow is. Why I remember a time..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbmoke Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Eeeh - LUXURY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregmorin Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 7 hours ago, flying_fish said: We were trapped in Devon Yesterday!! Remember this Nick? The shovel is in my shed!! Looks like a slight "dusting" to me Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 3 hours ago, Matthew Kane said: You guys are talking about Snow and Cold meanwhile Australia and New Zealand have had the hottest summer on record. I have seen that in the news... crazy. Climate change I guess. Check this image Matthew, taken last July.. this was our hottest summer since like.. ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 And why not, me driving in a snowstorm last week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying_fish Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 What, in a nice warm car with the heater on? Here's me going down the shop to get some milk this morning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olderndirt Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 Call it a break from BREXIT - even the media is bogging down with that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 No snow here we had a little but cleared in the morning time. Here is a shot out of my office window about ten minutes ago 09.20. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaboki Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 On 2/2/2019 at 1:18 AM, Benny said: And why not, me driving in a snowstorm last week LOL, have I no pictures to show, but i wouldnt call that a snostorm:p, hardly a snow breeze, in northern norway where i live we often drive in roads with 20 cm snow on road and 2 meter sight in front of the car, and that's not even a storm.. , this can be almost a dayly affair from december too april,, imagime that pluss insane cold tempratures and power blackout that somtimes can last very long..(one time for 2months) Guess this is the reason i dont mind xplane one season only:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 20 minutes ago, kaboki said: hardly a snow breeze I was following the plow truck... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 That Nick would shut down all of Atlanta for days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Clarke Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 22 hours ago, Iain Emms said: No snow here we had a little but cleared in the morning time. Here is a shot out of my office window about ten minutes ago 09.20. cheers Iain I really hope you are safe and managed to survive the terrible hardship evident in the pic. The sun must have been really dazzling !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Abdey Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 That's funny Nick... We had more snow than in that pic, and some of the moorland around here was inaccessible... for less than 24 hours. It was great fun, and the kids were thrilled to have a day off. Nothing more than a chilly blip for a small part of the country, and certainly not extreme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaydor Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 I survived the 3 millimetre blizzard of Feb 2019... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Hanley Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 Talking about extreme weather...we have 40+ degrees in areas of Aus, bushfires in Tasmania and Victoria, and a 100 year monsoonal flood event in Queensland with over 1metre of rainfall in the area in the last week. https://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/04/05/32/rising-floodwaters-put-more-homes-at-risk-as-the-crisis-in-far-north-queensland-worsens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplane Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 19 hours ago, Jack Sawyer said: That Nick would shut down all of Atlanta for days! You're right about that Jack. We moved to Alpharetta in 1992 and lived there for 13 winters. I remember well two of those winters where traffic came almost to a halt for several days. And there was never more than 1" of snow either time. But that's all behind me now. It's cooled down to 73F here in Florida as I write this. Maybe we'll be back to warmer weather tomorrow........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted February 3, 2019 Share Posted February 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Triplane said: You're right about that Jack. We moved to Alpharetta in 1992 and lived there for 13 winters. I remember well two of those winters where traffic came almost to a halt for several days. And there was never more than 1" of snow either time. But that's all behind me now. It's cooled down to 73F here in Florida as I write this. Maybe we'll be back to warmer weather tomorrow........ This year will be another without snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzelle Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 On 2/2/2019 at 9:29 AM, Iain Emms said: No snow here we had a little but cleared in the morning time. Here is a shot out of my office window about ten minutes ago 09.20. cheers Iain One of my pet hates is the abundance of "road furniture" - the excessive use of signs and fences etc etc. I'm curious, in your pic above, what purpose do those green fences serve? They look completely extraneous to me so what do they do, and are they really necessary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Yes being a Government building they stop cars parking too close to the building for obvious reasons I won't go into. They also assist people with walking disabilities to get up the low steps and into the building. cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennyson Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Speaking from Sunny Queensland..."That's Fake Weather!!!" Frank the Snow Stirrer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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