General Chat

O.h. spoke to his son in N.Y. last evening and he said they had had no blizzards, so maybe some areas were lucky. He is in Germantown.

I hate cold weather, ho pe spring will soon be on it's way lol

Lizx

Some of the states that were hit with heavy snowfalls do not normally get more than a few cms, if that ............. so they don't have the equipment to clear the roads, and people just don't know how to survive.

Our newscasts showed hundreds of cars that had been stuck on a couple of turnpikes by the snow .......... one of the turnpikes had been blocked for 13 hours, the other for more than 16. One driver was complaining because no-one had provided a service station fro the drivers :-S

Turnpike = M1


Here in Canada AND in the northern US states, you would not leave for a drive of longer than 50 miles in winter without making sure that you had emergency equipment in the car ............. a shovel or spade, blanket, extra warm clothing, candles, water, food, etc. That can be important even within range of major cities, because blizzards and high winds can block roads.


I well remember the winters of 1947 and 1962 ............ I was at uni in Liverpool in 1962, and the freeze lasted for a couple of months. Side roads had frozen ruts and piles of snow that you had to clamber over.

We also lived on the edge of the Pennines, and most winters there would be at least one morning when Dad would open the front door to find snow half-up it, and he would have to dig his way out down the long front path.

I was four in 1947, and my mother and I were living in a bedsit in Oxford. I can remember the snow being much taller than me, and curiously I can remember throwing a stone down a well in the garden and not hearing any splash! Presumably an adult was with me?!!! I can also remember being SO cold, and being told to rub my hands in front of a very dim gas fire. 1962/3 I was twenty and remember it very well! buses.where the diesel froze, my bedroom wall was frozen on the inside, and again it was SO cold. O H and I were engaged on my birthday in January, married next year, and now 52 years along the line, Derby and Joan!!

In UK 1947 was bad and so was 1962.

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Because its a S(n,l)ow news day? Boom boom!

not really - I bet our floods didn't feature in their headlines

But, does it really have to be the No1 headline on every single UK news bulletin?

My friend is snowed in in New York

SHE IS LOVING IT :-D :-D

I agree with you Ann, when my first child was born the neighbours had to dig out a path for the midwife to reach our house., and of course in those days the Yorkshire Moors were cut off for months .

we've had worse snow than they have at the moment - think it was 1947 - I lived in a little cottage on the side of a mountain and when we woke up in the morning it was up to the bedroom windows, local chapel was completely covered - had to be at least ten feet deep

it is on the news today that although we will not have the snow it will arrive here about Tuesday in the form of heavy rain which we really could do without as so many people are still homeless and suffering from last heavy storms we had... :-(

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-24/britain-braced-for-more-floods-as-us-storm-heads-for-uk/

I've connection/friend on FB who lives in rural NY State. Although I keep checking her updates, she hasn't said if its arrived or how the snow is affecting her. Just like us and our mild winter, this would be the first snowfall for them.

My son is there visiting again. Girlfriend says he is enjoying being snowed in lolol

Well he doesn't get any snow in Guatemala.

I have friends living in Washington DC with a new 2 month old baby.I'm sure they will be fine and well stocked up with Nappies /Formula etc for baby .I spoke to them online and they reckon it will be at least Monday before being able to get out of their apartment.

Rain!! that'll make a change!!


Have we any friends in the area expecting the bad snow? If so hope they can stay safely indoors.

BBC weather says we'll get the tail end of the storm on Tuesday, as strong winds and heavy rain.
When we get snow, it's when westerly rain meets Siberian weather fronts.....they say.

pity - I love snow :-D

No - the Atlantic will put paid to the worst of it - we might get some of the wind though - with rain!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ to Thurs 28th doesn't seem to think so.