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Confuzzled

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

You wouldn't go for the line dancing slugs then I take it? - See I can do really silly really well, yes? Ize a kleva gurl!!!!!

Milk Bottle Top Medal to GQ for services to thriftiness and FB Pies - Ta Daaah!!!

guess those slugs would be doing the electric slide?

omg what dance will they dance if the shtf with an emp? :rotfl::rotfl:

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I expect it would be the locomotion as fast as they could to avoid being trampled or eugh eaten in extremity!!! Sorry, Lyn xxx

GreyQueen

Confuzzled wrote: »

coming from the american midwest, on the tail end of lake effect snow, i am always amused by this. i've been in scotland nearing 14 years and i've never yet seen a 'blizzard' by american standards at least. the winter of 2010 came close but to me a blizzard is snow coming thick, hard fast, no visibility, deathly cold, very windy and not to be driven in or out in, especially at night. when it's coming down so hard that you know the roads are shutting down and you may not physically be able to get out of the house in the morning then THAT is a blizzard!

i've no doubt marathda and others further north of the both of us have seen them but it's not happened to me yet, actually i've been kinda waiting for one, i rather miss a good blizzard

Yeah, as in having to tie a rope to your house when you go out to the barn to feed the stock or you'll never find ya way back in again and will die mere yards from safety. That's what I'd call a blizzard and I'm thankful never to have experienced one.

Woke up anticipating snow and there was a teeny-tiny dusting which was all gone by mid-morning. But I know exactly what people mean by a sense of unease. The sky is a flat whitish colour and I have a sense that it's about to do something unpleasant in the next few hours.

I have a social engagement tomorrow evening which would involve a 35 mile round trip into the sticks. As in to a one horse village in the middle of nowhere. I'm not going to do that as I'm having a bad hoodoo that they'd be an accident/ stranding with my pal's car. Shall snuggle down in the city where I have warmth and provisions.

And a fair few candles, should that prove necessary. I got 2 more boxes of cook's matches today. And have just attached the Colombus II radio/ torch/ phone charger to the poorter tower to top its battery pack up.

Good time to check mobiles are fully-charged and that emergency lighting supplies are to hand and footways through the home clear in case you need to navigate in the dark in order to reach them.

Keep warm and keep well, lovely people. GQ xx

Confuzzled

i remember the blizzard of '78, i was in one of the areas that got 40 inches dumped on it in about 36 hours

my grandmother opened the curtain to her bay window and couldn't see anything but snow pressing against it, all the way to the top of it (good 5 feet!) they had a long covered porch that the bay hung out a bit into and turns out the entire porch was packed full of snow! when my grandmother opened the front door to see out a bunch of snow fell in and we could see nothing! i was delighted, i was young and it meant no school for sure :rotfl:

we were lucky, we had loads of logs in the attached garage and a working fireplace, everyone lost electricity at some point in the next day or two from all the ice hanging off the powerlines

when my grandfather managed to dig himself out the KITCHEN window after 2-3 days he was able to walk all the way up to the top of the chimney on his bungalow from all the drifted snow :eek:

poor man worked for hours and hours to shovel snow off the roof, he was worried about the roof collapsing from the weight of it. the next day he managed to shovel his way out the back door of the garage so he could get to the front to shovel away enough snow so he could open the door enough to get his snowmobile out

first he checked on the neighbours, one had a new baby and besides the cold those were the days when breastfeeding was seriously out of fashion so he was worried they'd run out of formula

after all the neighbours were looked after i got a ride on the snowmobile with him. the look of amazement on my eyes must have been something to behold as i saw us glide over the field across the road, one i knew to have a 3 feet high barbed wire fence, i estimate there must have been at least 4 feet of drifted snow all along it! :eek:


that was a rather exceptional event however i grew up experiencing about one blizzard a winter. i think what is often referred to here as a blizzard is really a white out, ie it's snowing hard and fast so you can't see well and that i've seen a handful of times.

i did once experience quite heavy snowfall up between inverness and kyle of lochalsh, but it happened over several days of rather calm but constant snow. that was the last time i drove in bad weather, and i will say i don't envy anyone having to do that, it's terribly frightening especially if you're not used to it or out of the habit of it as i was having lived in a hot place before moving to scotland.

i dare say places here do get genuine blizzards, aberdeen and parts of yorkshire spring to mind as particularly snow and wind prone areas and apparently mardatha's little pocket of the world, mind you edinburgh is a huge wind tunnel so not a stretch to think of places near by as getting the drifting snow especially if you're up a hill like mar.


sadly yesterdays snow is but a memory, forcast says it'll snow tonight but the skies say otherwise. when we move we'll be further inland so i'm hoping for better chances of snow. we're only 8 miles from the sea and i think that lessens our chances a lot of the time, if we weren't in a wind tunnel i suspect we'd see little at all except when everyone is getting slammed... i can but hope

mardatha

I have only got a couple inches of snow and I AM NOT HAPPY!
Been in a white-out confuzzled, was in the back garden, the wind was screaming and snow was coming sideways and backwards and upside down and I honestly didn't know where I was. And in 2010 we had four and half feet of it - that's when I found that 5ft of wee ratty lady into 4.5ft of snow = wee ratty lady falling on her nose after 1 step :rotfl:
We've had the white wall of death at the front door too, you open door and it falls on you

2tonsils

Just got this update on the expected blizzard conditions I mentioned for the UK later this week.. and current conditions

UK STORM CHASERS

Heavy snow still falling across parts of Eastern England, we have had 1.5-2 inches of snowfall in parts of Hull.

We are keeping an eye on the wrap around later tonight across East Anglia and the South East, which could bring a period of heavy snowfall to the same areas, but this time for those that witnessed sleet/rain today, further accumulations likely.

Further North in to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, we are keeping an eye on a "sting" in the low pressures tail, which could bring further heavy snowfall with more accumulations likely.

4-5 inches reported in parts of Lincolnshire to.

Tomorrow/Wednesday will be a day of snow showers for the Eastern half of the United Kingdom.

Looking further ahead the potential for a snow storm later this week with gale force winds and blizzard conditions this weekend.

Friday is looking cracking for Eastern parts with very heavy snow showers blown North Westwards by a gale force ESE wind.

Chart is from the 12 GFS, showing very cold upper 850's moving in to Eastern areas again.

Western areas look like they may get in on the snow action towards the end of the week when a low pressure system moves up from the SW, hitting the colder air with colder air getting wrapped around the system, gale to severe gale force winds, heavy snow = Blizzards.

Feel free to share.

Lewis

craigywv

dont think we getting snow over here but its stillbloody freezing dog practically ontop of radiators.................isnt it funny when its cold like this dog seemsto retain water in its legs or head or somewhere needing only to releive itself twice a day but when its warm the bloody thing would need a bladder operation the amount of times it NEEDS and i stress the word NEEDS as in stop everything your doing im more important....and it still drinks the same amount of water....xxx

2tonsils

How to drive on ice and snow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20997094

2tonsils

craigywv wrote: »

dont think we getting snow over here but its stillbloody freezing dog practically ontop of radiators.................isnt it funny when its cold like this dog seemsto retain water in its legs or head or somewhere needing only to releive itself twice a day but when its warm the bloody thing would need a bladder operation the amount of times it NEEDS and i stress the word NEEDS as in stop everything your doing im more important....and it still drinks the same amount of water....xxx

An old dog from the village comes to the house to see me now and again and have a love and some scraps of food. He never comes up the steps but stands and waits for me to go out to him.

Yesterday my husband shouted to me that the dog was there and wanting me...I went out to stroke the dog and he came into the house, spread out on the floor and would not move. I tried coaxing him, bits of food to tempt him out and calling him in Greek....in the end I had to lift him outside so I could shut the door. I can't help feeling he knows what weather we have in store for us:eek:

craigywv

2tonsils wrote: »

An old dog from the village comes to the house to see me now and again and have a love and some scraps of food. He never comes up the steps but stands and waits for me to go out to him.

Yesterday my husband shouted to me that the dog was there and wanting me...I went out to stroke the dog and he came into the house, spread out on the floor and would not move. I tried coaxing him, bits of food to tempt him out and calling him in Greek....in the end I had to lift him outside so I could shut the door. I can't help feeling he knows what weather we have in store for us:eek:

loli think your right. i was once told if spiders are in abundance in your home its a sign of cold weather well i have noticedloads this week also a lot more webs even on stuff thts used everyday.xxx