What has this bad weather taught you?

mardatha

It has taught me that once snow comes, it comes to STAY. Still got a white world up here !

Tibbie's_mum

It's taught me that I need to do all my Christmas pressie shopping early, this year was a complete disaster.

booter

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Another vote for dishwasher salt here. I found that it seemed to lie underneath and at least the snow wasn't as deep as elsewhere and cleared more easily. I can actually see my path today! whoop whoop!:j

I've found a snow shovel and normal table salt worked wonders - sprinkled over the cleared path, it stayed clear and ice free! And meant that snow wasn't walked into the house with every visitor or every time I went to put something in the dustbin.
Maybe that's why the supermarket was sold out of table salt just before the 2nd lot of snow came. (Sorry to all you up north who are thinking "2nd lot? What's she on about?"!)

I also learned that a sledge is a perfectly acceptable way to transport pressies to my sister's kids on Christmas morning (after all, if it's good enough for Santa...!)

suki1964

That salt will ruin paving slabs as well as road surfaces. Now we have the thaw not only are the roads crumbling but the area out the back door I kept clear to the bins and coal bunker, the slabs have blown completely and need replacing. I actually have pot holes in some

bluebag

mardatha wrote: »

It has taught me that once snow comes, it comes to STAY. Still got a white world up here !

Feel very sorry for you, it's lovely at first but soon becomes very tiresome.

I am pleased all ours is gone and I can walk without fear of falling.

Early winter yet, I'm sure we've not seen the last of the white stuff. Happy with the mild break though, however short it may be.

Westywoodpecker

It's actually taught me a very valuable lesson, that I can feed a family of four without a supermarket shop for much longer than I thought :j

I've kept extra milk & meat in the conservatory (colder than my fridge!) & froze a loaf of bread. I've almost established exactly what's in my freezer too!

Only gave in today & food shopped due to taking my Mother out as that nasty white stuff has finally gone ,otherwise I would have been happy "feeding them " for longer without a shop

ceridwen

..and don't forget - this particularly bad weather is destined to be with us on and off till March!!!!!

For those breathing a sigh of relief the snow has gone - re-stock up/stock up in the first place as appropriate. If it's like this in December - then what on earth is it going to be like in January and February. We havent hit the coldest weather of all yet....:eek:

icelandic_queen

It's the aftermath of the bad weather that"s been a shock. No water has left me totally unprepared!! Am going to buy a water-butt and also get some water purification tablets. Having no water is no joke!!

LilacLouisa

Being young in the days before most people had central heating, I had experienced the water going off before, and therefore had filled what ever empty receptacles I could find (including the bath)with water. What I had forgotten was the sheer amount of water we use daily! We also discovered that the plug to the bath allowed water to leak away down the drain.

We were lucky in that the lady next door still had running water, and she very kindly allowed us to collect water from her taps, bless her.

Therefore I must find a better plug for the bath and find more things which will double up as water holders.

There are no snow shovels to be had here (normally a snow free area hitherto) and I left my snowshovel behind when we moved...grrr. Will have to think how we can bodge one together somehow.

Primrose

We've been using the https://www.FixMyStreet.com website to report potholes in our roads to the local council, and to be fair, they've been doing their best on a tight budget to sort the major ones out caused by last January & February's heavy snow. However, now it looks as if they'll have to start all over again as he recent snows and very low temperatures will have wreaked havoc with roads everywhere. Even the rather ancient tarmac in our front driveway has suddenly revealed some alarming new cracks now that the snow has finally thawed.