[John22]

Do you have it? How deep? Are you off school/work?

[Boboff]

Yes, as the ocean, hate it.

[Yudster]

Same here. The stuff that fell before Christmas has only just gone away, now its started again. * HATE it.

[MK Chris]

I would have coped really well with it. Would have if it hadn't been for other people. I calculated correctly the journey time I'd need to get to work and the only reason I was late was because of the bitch who reversed off her driveway in front of me, causing me to stop and therefore not get a run up the hill where our road is. We then ended up pushing each other (not great in work shoes with no grip) and shovelling paths in front of the tyres. Got there eventually.

[jocky85]

Not much snow here but was enough to cause chaos this morning, gave up on the 50 mile commute after and hour

[Latina]

Same here. The stuff that fell before Christmas has only just gone away, now its started again. * HATE it.

My parents still have all that stuff, as a deep frozen layer several layers (one of which is hail) down. It'll take weeks, or a lot of sunshine and increased temperatures, for it to disappear. St Andrews had until today (when it snowed a lot again) a thin layer of frozen stuff that finally started to go when Fife Council received some grit 2 days ago after running out.

I'm just sick of it now and want it to end. It's not so much a problem for me yet as I walk to work, but it's affected my friends and family a lot more and I have a few work (and leisure) trips coming up.

[Munki Bhoy]

I'm not sure what's the most annoying thing. The fact people keep going on about it - mainly on the news (it's been there for two weeks, what's newsworthy about it by now?), the fact I keep slipping and sliding trying to get out of my driveway, the fact there's too many idiots who think flying about at speed is acceptable in these conditions and will drive on your bumper if you don't match them, the fact I'm skooshing my windscreen every 50 yards because there's so much grit on the roads to try and get rid of it, or the fact I haven't really gone out and played in it.

[Johnny 1989]

Considering we don't get it that often in East London I rather welcome it, didn't have any problems getting into work this time round, oddly enough.

[boring_user_name]

I don't know why snow in Winter is news but apparently it is. It's fun for a few day's but then the novelty wears of and i want rid now.

[Nicola_Red]

It's pretty deep here but I'm still at work as normal - as we like to say, you can't stop theatre. We've been dealing with huge queues of customers who can't make the shows, tho. Some have been lovely but I've had a fair few real whingers, people threatening to go to the BBC, papers etc cos we can't give them refunds. I do sympathise with them, but giving me personally earache won't help matters...

[Yudster]

I don't know why snow in Winter is news...

Because realistically, if you're in England and not on top of a range of hills, it happens about once every ten years normally. If that.

[MK Chris]

Proper snow like this is rare, shit snow that barely settles happens most years.

[Yudster]

Thats what I meant. This is proper snowball snow, the type that creaks when you walk on it. Once every ten years is generous actually, its a lot less than that. And certainly for most of England a series of more than two or three days where the temperature doesn't go above 2 degrees is very rare, so the fact that this snow is hanging around for as long as it is is almost as remarkable as the fact that its here at all.

[Johnny 1989]

As Yudster & Topher say it's very rare you get it in London & The South East once every few years let alone the 3-4 times it's snowed since December, and seeing as we got snow in February last year (although it normally doesn't set for long in February) we've still got it come for quite a while yet.

Thing is some moan "oh we're a third world country, we come to a standstill, etc." However speaking to my Godfather (who's 64) the other day, he said the cost of snow equipment isn't justified for the South East anyway as it's very rare we get snow anyway so whatever they spend on a fleet of snow plows, etc. wouldn't be cost effective anyway.

[Yudster]

Of course not, it would be ridiculous to spend that kind of money making sure we can cope "like they do in Germany" (or wherever) when the damn equipment (which we will have paid for via massive increases to our already ridiculous and strangely unaccountable-for Council Tax) will have rusted away before its ever used. Of course we grind to a standstill, its extreme weather for the vast majority of this country. Not just bad weather, or nasty weather, or annoying weather - extreme weather. I still * hate it. I'm in full Pissed Off Grumpy Old Cow mode now.

[Johnny 1989]

Of course not, it would be ridiculous to spend that kind of money making sure we can cope "like they do in Germany" (or wherever) when the damn equipment (which we will have paid for via massive increases to our already ridiculous and strangely unaccountable-for Council Tax) will have rusted away before its ever used. Of course we grind to a standstill, its extreme weather for the vast majority of this country. Not just bad weather, or nasty weather, or annoying weather - extreme weather. I still * hate it. I'm in full Pissed Off Grumpy Old Cow mode now.

Exactly, the weather is extreme for here, all I bloody keep hearing from the same miserable bastards (who say bloody foreigners are invading our country, ironic when we did that over a 100 years ago to many nations, everyone is a sponger, etc.) say that in Sweden, Denmark & Canada they can cope. When I point out that they are know for their snow they just mutter & say something along the line that it's all the governments fault, blah, blah, blah

As for unaccountable-for Council Tax, well I live in the LB Redbridge, our tax is as much as the LB Islington (I believe) yet the quality of living is noticeably worse. Nothing has improved here although the white lines on the roads always look fresh & new

[Lactating Man Nips]

Chin up, Home Counties. This is what the rest of us put up with much more regularly. You wanna get some floods under yer belt.

[Zoot]

-13 this morning! I couldn't get my boot open.

[Munki Bhoy]

* you snow, * you.

[AndyJ]

We have loads, got snowed in yesterday, couldn't move the car so worked from home which was nice. Made it into London today but it's still snowing at home so won't be staying to late. I love it and want more!

[Johnny 1989]

-13 this morning! I couldn't get my boot open.

* Hell, -13, glad I live near a city now

* you snow, * you.

To be fair I feel sorry for you Jocks, wasn't it -20 in the Northern part at one point

We have loads, got snowed in yesterday, couldn't move the car so worked from home which was nice. Made it into London today but it's still snowing at home so won't be staying to late. I love it and want more!

I got in fine, rather irritatingly, in fact I was early However several of our engineers were snowed in, the boss wouldn't have it so he got our delivery driver to some of their houses, as he got out of the van he slipped on his arse

Romford (LB Havering) apparently sandblasted the snow away in the town centre, LB Redbridge as ever have been useless, not a single grain of grit, even on the main roads, it's just that the traffic hasn't stopped moving so it hasn't really had chance to settle. The pavements down my road are safer than the actual roads, even though there's no heavy traffic.

[John22]

See, us teenagers are the only one's who like the snow. I've had 2 days off with about a 50% chance of anopther tommorow

[Johnny 1989]

See, us teenagers are the only one's who like the snow. I've had 2 days off with about a 50% chance of anopther tommorow

I like the snow, it's just that I get fed up with the people in my office bitching about it constantly from 8 in the morning until 5 in the evening. I get it, you hate it, shut the * up!

[English Bob]

I was quite enjoying the snow until yesterday! Went round a slippery corner VERY slowly, but still my car decides to swerve, bashing my wheel on the kerb! No damage thankfully, but still, careful out there people! If you think you are driving slowly, GO SLOWER

[Nicola_Red]

After three days of struggling into work, including walking thru town on what is now basically an ice rink with an already bad knee and back, spending what precious little money I have on cabs cos of the lack of public transport, and one fall (can't sleep on my left side cos my hip hurts so much), only to spend the whole day listening to customers whine and moan about how bad the snow is where they are, how old/disabled they are and how they simply must have a refund, I'm thoroughly sick of it. There's no sign of it melting and nobody has the time/resources to shovel pavements as well as gritting the roads. I feel exhuasted. (rant over, apologies)