snow

Post by **dalebrignall** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 5:45 pm

happy birthday chrissie,when i drove to work it was minus at home coldest point ot my 10 minute journey was minus 15.does the wind chill affect the temp reading in the car.i was allowed out to play in the snow and do my delivery today,the paths were ok,got dodgy at mid day when the sun was melting the snow and ice.i then went and got myrtle,she is having new eyebolt bushes fitted tomorrow.we made it up my snowy lane no problems at all .the narrow tyres seem to dig in and grip the snow.i have had no post for 2 days,i hate to think of the backlog at stalbans .

Post by **Kevin** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:09 pm

dalebrignall wrote:I have had no post for 2 days, I hate to think of the backlog at st albans .

As you know only 2 well Dale if there is a backlog in St Albans it will be twice as bad in Watford

Post by **dalebrignall** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 8:11 pm

Post by **Stig** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:17 am

Squiggle wrote:
Stig28 wrote:I was one of the few people that made it in to work yesterday (in the Minor of course). I then found out that the instructions were not to come in unless you really had to, this then changed to "go home whilst you still can".

It helped that there aren't any steep hills on my route and we only had about 6 inches of snow but I still felt a little bit smug.
Similar here where I felt a bit smug too.

Then rather foolish when the wipers weren't coping with the snow on the way back.

Funny you should say that, any smugness disappeared very rapidly when my driver's wiper fell off on the way home last night!

It had been suffering much abuse trying to wipe over a lump of compacted snow at the screen edge and just got pushed off the spindle. I'd only fitted new wiper arms a couple of weeks ago, the old ones had a screw fitting, the new ones were push fit.

Stopped at a garage and swapped the remaining one over, then refitted the old one once I got home. I'll look out for the lost wiper on the way home tonight.

Oh, and Happy Birthday!

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:16 pm

That was a couple of hours before I drove to work - no problems - apart from the heater not working. Then when I got there ambulance transport (non-emergency transport) informed us that 'some of their drivers hadn't made it'. I just laughed at them.

Then yesterday when I got in after all the ice and the crews were talking about drivers going sideways on the ice I just pointed at the '75 Daf in the car park (shod in the cheapest of Camac tyres) and said 'they're just incompetent then' ;-)

(Although things did go a little sideways when I first moved off...)

Post by **Squiggle** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:10 pm

Thanks for all the birthday wishes folks even the cheeky one!

Post by **Judge** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:56 pm

Does that go for those on the other board too?

Post by **Squiggle** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:02 am

Judge wrote:Does that go for those on the other board too?

?

Post by **Judge** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:38 am

http://mog.myfreeforum.org/ftopic541-135.php

Post by **Judge** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:14 pm

A bit more snow last night

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Post by **Judge** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:30 pm

Check out No: 35

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southtoday/content ... y.shtml?35

Post by **Sidney'61** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:21 pm

Check out number 6 aswell - a stegasaurus!!

Post by **dalebrignall** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:33 pm

i was totally hacked off at work,struggled to get in roads not gritted and needed to use my shovel to get out of a snow drift in my lane ,nothing i can do about that.i then preped everything,boss gets in an hour late,then tells me to prep another round because some one decided to have a douvet day,that annoyed me,there wont be any recriminations either.then there was an hour and a halfs assesment to weather it was safe underfoot.the boss told us it had snowed again as was raining as well.i could have told him that by looking out of the window.the brief was to take out only 1st and 2nd class mail,non of the mailsort ot the tnt uk mail stuff,the things with the star on.that ment that i took about a third of what i normally do.tomorrow will be horrendos.what is the point of struggling going on delivery and only doing a third of the work,if you are walking out in it you might as well do the lot.sorry about the rant but it very frustrating.and there is not enough grit.we are a third word country and a laughing stock.the schools are closed because teachers can not get in,and heath and saftey reasons.what poppy cock a doodle diddley.i went to school in the snow and loved it .the nanny state has taken over.i feel a bit better now .

Post by **stag36587** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:21 pm

ah that may explain why I'm still waiting for parcelforce 24 for almost a week not. According to tracking my parcel has been stuck at the depot since last Saturday

Post by **Sidney'61** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 10:38 am

Most of the schools round here closed today however mine only decided that they were going to close at around 8:15, 30 mins before school was due to start!
I starting walking and went about a mile and a half before my sister phoned and told me they'd closed and I could go back home.
Surely if most people are already on their way that defeats the object of closing for snow?!

Post by **dalebrignall** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 12:00 pm

back home not done my delivery today,they could not get the bags to us.i am amazed how badly people drive in the snow they do not have a clue,i saw one chap in a merc locking up all 4 wheels sliding down a hill using the curbs to stop him.he had his windows open so i said leave the car in first gear at tickover dont touch anything you will get down the hill he called me something not very nice .

linearaudio · Post by **linearaudio** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:43 pm

My first experience of snow in a moggy, having driven diesel Citroen fwds for years. Amazed at how tractable the old girl is, felt like she would chug through anything, whereas my Citroens would just sit and scrub around, low revs or not!

Post by **plastic_orange** » Fri Feb 06, 2009 7:34 pm

Driving standards in the dry are bad enough, but you need a certain skill level to drive in snow/ice, and unfortunately most folk don't have it.

Pete

Post by **RogerRust** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:12 am

I've taken the oportunity to show my 20 year old how to drive in snowy weather. Quite a challange because he's 20 and so naturally knows more than me.

Post by **grumpygrandad** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:33 am

hello i have not taken mine out whilst the roads are bad as i dont want any damage to them having a car through my fence the other morning put paid to that ,,grandad