Preparedness for when

missrlr

I want to play - snowing here, was small and weedy flakes now getting to proper big fat ones. About 1 inch settled here. Next door have sent all their staff home already.

A well known courier company have decided they will delivery the emergency bloods to us - after we chased up and asked why these were still sat in the depot - making a "special journey" which will take 5 hours (all 18 miles of it!) Told them the sooner it is done the quicker the driver will be back and if they had left at 10am when the samples were on the truck they would have been there and back by now!

As I type there is some evidence of melting, window has drips on it (outside) seems to be slowing down but who knows and could all be a mirage!

siegemode

No snow here yet and hoping it will hold off until we get all of todays errands done. Our little furry purry boy is charging about and very vocal. He always goes skit skat prior to bad weather. He often warns us prior to the forcast bless him. Cats/animals tell us so much:)

thriftwizard

As I type there is some evidence of melting, window has drips on it (outside) seems to be slowing down but who knows and could all be a mirage!

It's a bit weird here, melting & re-freezing in strange little patches for no apparent reason. You can see where drips of snow have slid/run down branches & refrozen before they could fall off, and there are greyish half-melted patches on the driveway that have frozen clear over again; no-one has been out there to tread on it except me so heaven only knows why those bits have nearly melted! Still coming down here, albeit quite lightly now.

Feeling sorry for our market traders; many of them have travelled quite some way to be here today but their customers mostly haven't bothered. Great bargains to be had for those of us who did, but not good for the stallholders. They have to pay for their stalls in advance, & may lose their regular pitches if they don't turn up, no matter how awful the weather & how unlikely the customers are to come.

And there are some loopy drivers out there; surely they are not really stupid enough to think that it's OK to drive faster than the limit as it's snowing & there aren't any speed traps about? They're slaloming around the cyclists on the main road, spraying filthy muck all over the pedestrians & clipping the kerb as they try to correct the steering too fast, or racing out in front of oncoming cars - lethally stupid, but it'll be the cyclists & pedestrians that pay the price. :eek:

2tonsils

Glad to hear you are all coping one way or another with the snow and ice. We still have the bizarre stormy weather and I was horrified to see it on the weather forecast for at least the next two weeks for us. It is the stormiest, wettest winter we have had here in the 19 years we have been here. The only dry bit was when it was freezing cold for ten days...at least it was sunny. Went to bed last night and it was dry out but the wind was howling. This morning it was brilliant sunshine for all of ten minutes until we drove down to the main road.

Outside the gym the sky went black and there was a massive strike of lightning outside the doors, then the thunder was so loud it was shaking the big glass doors so much I made people come off the treadmills. Then the power went off for a couple of minutes and when it returned I realised one of the treadmills had been zapped. We are now having hail storms and heavy downpours in between quiet bits. It also keeps going from 15 degrees down to about 8 degrees and decidedly chilly and damp.

Not planning to go anywhere in this for the next two days and hoping it stops as I want to go to see a band concert on Sunday night in town. Took some soup to the gym for lunch and it was lovely. I bought a cheap very old wide neck flask at the car boot...so old it has a cork stopper lol...but the soup was too hot to eat four hours after putting it into the flask so that was a great buy!

Fancying lamb chops for dinner tonight...might just make extra mash and put it in the freezer for other meals. Stay warm folks!

Confuzzled

craigywv wrote: »

I wouldbe on nerve tabletsif my freezer waslike that.I think i a foodhoarder.:D

you're not a food hoarder, you're an edible investment banker :rotfl:


my stores (well the food part of it) are my physical assets, my money is my fiscal assets if you see what i mean

i always refered to it in the past as my food savings account and it's saved our hides on half a dozen occassions in the past


this is the only kind of investment banking i have any respect for, long live preppers

thriftwizard

you're not a food hoarder, you're an edible investment banker

Love it! That's my kind of thinking... I spend a lot of time trying to persuade OH that our stores are actually an investment, not a) a waste of money ("you've bought too much, we'll never eat it all before it's out of date!") and b) a waste of space ("I'm a minimalist, you're a clutterbug!") He'd be happiest with no stores at all & the space clear for other things. Or even just the space, come to think of it. As he regularly points out, there's a choice of two supermarkets within 400 yards (both expensive) and a chip shop too if desperate. And our small town is surrounded by farms. Not that you can actually locate a human to buy stuff from on most of them.

Maybe I do go a little OTT (4 x 20-tin trays of tinned tomatoes stashed under the cooker, bought at a very good price, BBF date May 2015 - will be used well before then) but I can relax & play with my fabric stash this afternoon and for the next few weeks if necessary, rather than trudging through the snow to see what the supermarkets have left on the shelves for the 6 of us, and depleting the bank account to do so at full price.

missrlr

Confuzzled wrote: »

you're not a food hoarder, you're an edible investment banker :rotfl:

Brilliant I will remember this :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Confuzzled

it's been snowing off and on all morning, mostly on, blowy big flakes, some of it settling

it was soooo cold last night that i had troubles falling to sleep, i've finally reached a point this winter where my summer duvet and heavy fleece blankie combo isn't doing it so tonight i'm digging out the heavy one too

also, first time this year i've brought out the duvet for my lap and the first i'm i've had to make tea to warm my hands

i'd been getting by with just my heavy fleece blanket but despite wearing my super warm slipper booties, leggings AND jog bottoms, a heavy fleece jumper and my heavy fleece dressing gown i was still sooo cold.

my knees and back and hands are moaning about it now too, there's def something big coming my joints don't lie


now with some tea and the duvet over my lap too i'm thawing out. had to put some deep heat rub on too, i was aching so much it felt like i was coming down with the flu. i also dug out my usb heated fingerless gloves for if it gets worse later

despite me having the heaters up higher than normal last night it was only 16 C this morning so i've turned the input up even higher tonight. i want to get this flat as warm as possible just in case there is a powercut, if i was that cold last night in a heated place and this cold today i just don't even want to think what it would be like without the heat


stay warm everyone, be safe

edited to add: no wonder i feel so cold, accuweather which i find fairly accurate for my area says that it's 0C BUT it's a real feel of -14!!!!! well, that would explain it!

Popperwell

My home can often go as low as 10c...and I no longer necessarily believe that being in a smaller property means that you'll be warmer as you have explained Confuzzled.

Hope you feel warmer sooner.

Thank you for reminding of that particular website which I used to use a lot and then lost it(and I forgot its name)

oldtractor

2tonsils wrote: »

I am glad I am not the only one to worry about people being caught out in cars....I was chatting to my MIL on the phone tonight and she mentioned her daughter was planning a trip to Edinburgh in the car early on Saturday (from near York) with her OH as she had to work there on Monday and they thought they would have a few nice days away........words fail me :eek: Do they live in a parallel universe where you sail through snow drifts and blizzards and arrive from a long journey just in time to visit a superb restaurant for dinner?????? I asked if they were planning thermals, food and a spade in the car.......Apparently they could have had free train travel but thought they would rather drive up.....sometimes, words fail even me....:(

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