Weather, the true picture

For the 3rd day we are stranded, and now the water as gone off due to an extremely cold night, down to -15. The lane from the main road, .5 mile is frozen solid, luckily Angie can work from home until the power goes down, then it's wildcamping in the MH outside the back door:D
It is now 9.30am and still -12deg.

So this is LLangyniew just a few miles from Welshpool this morning, I am sure the mainroads are open, but take care everyone, wherever you are.

Happy Camping:)
 
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Pioneer said:
For the 3rd day we are stranded, and now the water as gone off due to an extremely cold night, down to -15. The lane from the main road, .5 mile is frozen solid, luckily Angie can work from home until the power goes down, then it's wildcamping in the MH outside the back door:D
It is now 9.30am and still -12deg.

So this is LLangyniew just a few miles from Welshpool this morning, I am sure the mainroads are open, but take care everyone, wherever you are.

Happy Camping:)
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Wow mate thats cold, only -8 here. You can always melt enough snow for a cup of tea, or maybe a wee drop of whiskey to keep warm :)

P.S. I new your gorgeous looking house must have some draw backs ;)
 
-9.7 2hours ago in Berwick, currently - 7.7.

Coldest yet here and the deepest snow yet as well.

Wee burnip's feet can't reach the ground through it, he is just bellying out. Not easy for him to do his bizz.:eek: Poor wee thing.
 
-7 last night... warming to -2 now :rolleyes:

no point diggin the vehicles out...:confused:
won't be needing any just yet :D:D

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regards;)
aj
 
Falmouth Cornwall YES! YES!

Has finally snowed about 2" in 1/2hour so everything stopped on the roads as we're not used to such conditions. Went to get the toboggan to find grandchildren have nicked it!! So it 's plastic sacks like in the olden days!!
 
ajs said:
-7 last night... warming to -2 now :rolleyes:

no point diggin the vehicles out...:confused:
won't be needing any just yet :D:D

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regards;)
aj
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Cant help but notice you live on a roundabout, Now I know why your round the bend.:D:D
 
The weather seems to have added a few extras to my van. I like the Tiara on the overcab.

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Here in LLangyniew, Welshpool at 10.15am, it is -11deg:eek:
We have had no water for 36hrs now, but managed to get a car down to the main road, so we can go and pick up some bottled water.
Roll on the big thaw, whenever that takes place.

Happy Camping:)
 
Pioneer said:
Here in LLangyniew, Welshpool at 10.15am, it is -11deg:eek:
We have had no water for 36hrs now, but managed to get a car down to the main road, so we can go and pick up some bottled water.
Roll on the big thaw, whenever that takes place.

Happy Camping:)
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Snow, pan, cooker........WATER. Even aj knows that.
PS, dont use yellow snow.
ZZ
 
Cheers for that Pete, you must have been a dib dib dobber yourself:D
It takes a lot of snow to flush the bog;)
In the words of Gloria Gaynor, "I will survive".;)

Happy Camping:)
 
pioneer

when the big thaw comes I reckon you
will have more than enough water
probably muddy brown colour!



weez
Tony
 
zeezee16 said:
Snow, pan, cooker........WATER. Even aj knows that.
PS, dont use yellow snow.
ZZ
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In the early 60s we had weather like this and the water boards turned the water off to the houses and put stand pipes in the fire hydrants. I can remember using the sled to go and collect drinking water. This they said was because the reservoir were running low as the precipitation was being held as snow and not melting into them as water.

We had a set pot (Coal fired) in the scullery and this was lit and buckets of snow were put into it so we had water for non drinking purposes. We also had outside loos at the time. Snow was about 6ft deep and we had a trench dug that you couldn't see over the top of between the back door and the loo.

No. Not out in the wilds but the pit villages of North West Durham. Dipton was cut off completely for 3 weeks by 20ft drifts and I worked in the village Co-op. For a while I was the only vehicle moving in our out of the village. I used my Norton Jubilee motorbike and when I got to the deep drifts I got off and powered it over them as I walked beside it.

The snow had started on 5 November and laid that year until May. The road was so bad that they had to get diggers in to lift the deep ice (about 2 ft thick) off the surface after it had been compacted by vehicles for months.

The next winter I was at Medomsley Co-op and can remember walking over High Stables, a high spot near Pontop Pike, and when I got on top of one drift I realised I was standing on top of a bus.

They bred us hard in those days. It sounds like the dark ages but it was only 50 years ago.

This morning we had had another 2 to 3 inches of fresh snow on top of about 2ft that was there already. Chaos reigns now!

We did have vandals though. The snow was so high the local lads were walking along unscrewing the light bulbs in the lamp post. The light heads were at knee height. A Talbot Sunbeam (not Sunbeam Talbot they were later) got stuck on Flint Hill crossroads and was totally buried under the drifting snow.

No, I am not making this up and have a copy of the souvenir Evening Chronicle with pictures and stories.
 
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It was when central heating was us sitting round the fireplace & it was warm if you didn't have ice on the inside of the windows. Although we were lucky where we lived we didn't have really deep snow but I can't ever recall being sent home or schools closing.

Saw the pictures in Europe & they are getting it bad there, hope it clears up by mid Feb. for my trek south :eek:
 
I wonder how many people have injured themselves by slipping on the frozen footpaths, car parks at supermarkets, pubs, etc.
Many years ago before Health and Safety, people used to clear the snow, before it was hardpacked into ice, now if you touch it your liable:eek: Another of our Great countrys do gooder rules, that causes more harm to Health and Safety. In my opinion.

Happy Camping:)
 
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