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UK BBSers: From Russia with SNOW....

Canadave said:
TorontoTrekker said:
Canadave said:
Americans?! How about members your own bloody Commonwealth? :p

Incidentally, I notice in that article your night time temperatures are set to drop to -2. Here in Ottawa, we were celebrating the fact that the daytime temp was climbing to -1 today...
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Bloody luxury. :p

Mind you, I was in Montreal this weekend, where right now, it's -14. (I shudder to think of what the temperature was yesterday when I went out for lunch during the break from my meeting. Environment Canada says it was -6, but there's no way it was that mild. More like -20 with the wind blowing at about a million kilometres per hour. :( )
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Montreal can get damn cold. It feels colder than Ottawa, I find, even though the actual temperature is usually higher.
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Really? I remember Ottawa feeling colder (the coldest temperature I've ever experienced was when I was in Ottawa and it went down to -40), but that may have been because it's so dry compared to Montreal or Toronto. I'd walk outside to go to work and my nostrils would freeze shut. That doesn't happen very frequently here (I do experience it occasionally in Aurora), and I don't recall having it happen this weekend.

That's not meant to be construed to suggest that I find winter in either city particularly pleasant. ;)
 
I've not seen this much snow in a long time, I was going into London today for a job interview but at 9.00 I'll have to say I can't make it now all public transport is down!

Good luck for everyone trying to get to work/school/collage.
 
Well, I made it to work.

Headed off at about 5:50am as normal. Made it to the Tube station where normally the train arrives at about 6:01am. Nope, ten minutes it says. So I wait ten minutes and the display doesn't budge, still says ten minutes. Then it goes up to eleven minutes before very slowly starting to come down again.

Finally got on a train which hobbled along the Central Line. I checked the Tube status on my phone and it said there's no Jubilee Line so I avoided that and went to Bank with the intention of getting on the Waterloo and City Line. Made it to Bank only to find that the line was shut - yes, the completely underground line that no drop of snow could ever possibly touch was shut.

So, with the problems switching lines in the Bank/Monument underground lair right now due to the escalator works I foolishly decided to walk to Southwark.

Thank f*** for A-GPS and Google Maps on my phone. Whatever gritting they've supposed to have done hasn't worked. It took me about 45 minutes to walk it.

On the way, I went across Southwark Bridge which is competely covered with no sign of any gritting.

Plus, they are digging up various roads at the moment to replace much of London's Victorian-era plumbing. Unfortunately, they'd left the holes they've dug open with red portable fences around them - fences that had fallen over and been buried under snow. I had to grab some poor woman to stop her falling down a hole!

And just to top it all off, I would have brought my laptop home with me on Friday and just worked from home, knowing this was coming but we were told to leave our computers at work and switched on over the weekend.

Oh, and just as I got to work, I get a call from my sister telling me that the Central Line was now shut and her boss had told her to stay at home! :scream:
 
You had the best excuse of the year to stay home, you nutter! It's not going to be easy getting home now! Wild horses couldn't drag me out!
 
I'll bet a lot of you weren't able to make it into the office... especially those who live further out...
 
An Officer said:
I'll bet a lot of you weren't able to make it into the office... especially those who live further out...
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There are more here than I was expecting. My boss has told me to keep an eye on the weather and go home if it looks so bad that I won't be able to get home again.

Not coming in today will have caused a lot more problems than it solved. I don't mind a bit of a trek in to work, really.
 
Wow there's proper snow outside, none of this little powdery shit, like last night, proper flakes and everything. :lol:
 
Just in case anyone hasn't headed out yet:
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:D

Go, Victoria Line, Go!
 
Now that's more like it: snow fell so much so that this morning I woken up to a carpet of white dung. :bolian:

How I'll get to work tomorow I don't know.
 
Bob The Skutter said:
Got thunder and lightning now along with the snow...
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What about wind? Bad weather isn't truly bad unless a decent gale is blowing.

A couple of weeks ago we had winds that reached about 130 kph. It was garbage day and I was walking home from the shopping centre when the winds first hit. I must have seen 50-100 wheelie bins blown over and rubbish and recycling was flying down the street so I not only had to walk against the wind I had to dodge flying newspapers/catalogues and rolling cans etc.

It was a nightmare. It was also frigging hot that day but because of the wind I had to close all the windows.
 
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