Snow

[bluethrunthru]

Not a flake here !

You snowflake lol

 

[Bobby the blue]

Had a fair bit last night. Looked very nice out to be honest.
Had to work today then find out the wife and kids are all off today. Even though I’m in my forties I couldn’t help but be a bit jealous and felt like I was missing out.

Although might have been a good thing as last night took the kids out for an hour and my lad caught me round the canister with a snow ball so I waited a while and smashed a snowball right in his midriff which winded him which although I didn’t want to hurt him still felt quite satisfying all the same as he started it.

 

[idahoblues]

I'd just not drive in it unless it was an emergency not worth the risk.

Just get some good snow tyres and you'll be fine. Bridgestone Blizzak's are the bomb

 

[remember arthur mann]

As I say up here we just get on with it - watch this legend up Saltburn Bank

This is a few miles from where I live and its bloody steep

That's a ruddy long way to come for a match.

 

[cleavers]

Scandalous roads like that aren't gritted, including the M25.

It probably is gritted, but gritting takes time to work, and it needs traffic to work. That's a steep hill grit/salt turns snow to water, and water runs down hill, taking the salt with it.

The problem on the M25 last night was similar, and down to how heavy the snow became, it basically made the gritting pointless, as it initially melts the snow, which started off light, and the salt content then runs off in the resulting water, then the snow became very heavy, so there was no salt left, then vehicles slow/stop, and nobody can go anywhere, even with only a couple of inches of snow.

People then say "why is it only in the UK", but it's not, happens everywhere, but we rarely see the stuff in most of the UK, so drivers generally don't know how to drive in it (or don't know when NOT to drive in it).

 

[cleavers]

Just get some good snow tyres and you'll be fine. Bridgestone Blizzak's are the bomb

Waste of money in the UK, it's so rare we would need them, maybe in some parts of Scotland they might be worth it, but even then I'd question it.

 

[idahoblues]

Waste of money in the UK, it's so rare we would need them, maybe in some parts of Scotland they might be worth it, but even then I'd question it.

Until you write your vehicle off

 

[cleavers]

Until you write your vehicle off

It could be 10 years before you see snow though.

We had an inch and a half today, and other than on minor side roads it was gone before I got out of bed, its about 5 years since I last saw anything significant on the ground, more often than not we only ever see it on fields/verges, I tend to avoid those in my car.

 

[Scottyboi]

It probably is gritted, but gritting takes time to work, and it needs traffic to work. That's a steep hill grit/salt turns snow to water, and water runs down hill, taking the salt with it.

The problem on the M25 last night was similar, and down to how heavy the snow became, it basically made the gritting pointless, as it initially melts the snow, which started off light, and the salt content then runs off in the resulting water, then the snow became very heavy, so there was no salt left, then vehicles slow/stop, and nobody can go anywhere, even with only a couple of inches of snow.

People then say "why is it only in the UK", but it's not, happens everywhere, but we rarely see the stuff in most of the UK, so drivers generally don't know how to drive in it (or don't know when NOT to drive in it).

Fair enough that makes more sense.

 

[idahoblues]

It could be 10 years before you see snow though.

We had an inch and a half today, and other than on minor side roads it was gone before I got out of bed, its about 5 years since I last saw anything significant on the ground, more often than not we only ever see it on fields/verges, I tend to avoid those in my car.

Asblong as the tyres aren't studded you can drive them around on dry roads, they will wear out a little faster but still worth it in my opini