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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:52 am 
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It started to snow at around 9 AM here yesterday but stopped around 3pm and most of it melted all roads open but a bit icy tonight
I see on the news things are bad down south with your slight dusting as per usual


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:40 am 
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It closed Brum Airport at about 20.00hrs last night.

Our Emirates flight due to land at 18.45hrs yesterday landed at Glasgow & is due in at about 09.30hrs this morning. Those passengers will be happy.

The roads were several inches of snow including all main roads and the motorways were just passable for a few hours.

I was back home for 22.00hrs and am about to go out again.

The Spring Fair starts at the NEC today with 40,000 to 70,000 people usually attending on the first day. That'll be fun as we still have about 15-25cm of the stuff on the ground.

I hope it's better.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:14 am 
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We've had about 5 inches down here, road are bad but the Council were well prepared they've kept them clear.


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:23 pm 
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Nowt in Glasgow at all. Roads were starting to glisten a wee bit on the outskirts.
I hear this morning that a lot of England, especially darn sarf, was at a standstill due to 3 inches of snow, ffs yer havin' a laugh, you don't know what a real fall of snow is :roll:


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:25 pm 
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Nothing in Carlisle......isn't the first time I've said that.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:12 pm 
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nothing in Aberdeen yet.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:17 pm 
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You lot are lucky then we got it bad and even the A1 was unusable last night better today but the damage was done last night going into next week 3 cars down !

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:30 pm 
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edders23 wrote:
You lot are lucky then we got it bad and even the A1 was unusable last night better today but the damage was done last night going into next week 3 cars down !

And a hefty insurance jump :sad: :sad:
Always fit winter tyres


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:12 pm 
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a mate had a EMA but it got diverted to LHX, he was at EMA before the word spread

took him 2 and half hours to get back to wednesbury

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:07 pm 
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Nothing on the coast, but the further you went in land the thicker the snow.

So I stayed on the bits without snow and did alright. :D

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Last year I said "we don't do snow in Plymouth", but I spoke too soon.

This year Rome is shut down because of snow - but none in Plymouth.....



....yet!

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I didn't do 87 jobs today, but I did have my best day this year....

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:18 am 
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our phones were ringing like crazy but we just couldn't get to people too many cars who couldn't handle snow blocking the roads as per usual and a large slice of bad luck

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