Snowed in!!!
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Topic: Snowed in!!!
Posted By: stuarthop
Subject: Snowed in!!!
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:39am
got the day off work!  took me an hour and a half to get to the end of my road then the boss rang me telling me to go home!!!------------- |
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Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:46am
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Lucky bugger I got to work this morning and we have just had a dump of 1" in the last 30 minutes. I would like to go home, but cannot get out of the works gates ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:50am
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b******s just freezing and clear here.... Hope it's gone by the weekend or you will miss the show! ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:57am
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we've got about 7 or 8 inches and just got another inch since i got home but the suns comming out now ------------- |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 11:37am
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none at home this morning; just a very hard frost - started the Car and watched it thaw out while I drank my Cuppa Tea.
Was flippin cold on the station at 06:30 this AM ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 11:42am
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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 11:43am
They joys of commuting eh Simon....... Left my car for 5 minutes with the engine running it didnt even touch the frost on the windscreen! ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 11:45am
Yes; Up before it was light; (nice sun rise over the Welwyn Viaduct mind) Hopefully warm(er) sunday as I'm taking the 17 for a blast ! ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 12:38pm
Amen to that! The Blaze gets its second outing Sunday as long as the lake is not frozen over! ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 1:00pm
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We have nothing here in Nottingham, in fact it is one of the nicest days of the year so far! Very odd indeed...
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Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 1:49pm
weve got a light sprinking on the grass and slush everywhere else  ------------- |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 3:04pm
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We've got plenty of snow coming from the sky and 3 frozen builders in a half-finished extension... More tea for them, I think. ------------- http://www.lancingsc.org.uk/index.html - Lancing SC 
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Posted By: KnightMare
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 3:21pm
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Theres hardley any snow here at all quite disapointing. lol ------------- http://theramblingsofmyinnergeek.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: Pierre
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 3:34pm
Lucky builders ......  |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 3:42pm
Hmmmm, maybe we are relying too heavily on sky snow in Nottingham?! Just wondered where else I could get my hands on some  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 5:25pm
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No snow what so ever in Edinburgh. And people say scotland is all wintery and stuff. It wasnt even that cold hrer today.
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Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 6:09pm
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It's just been raining where i am in Sunny Southend. But the rain freezes around my rs600 in the night and there's a nice coat of ice around it every morning! ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 6:38pm
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its forcast to snow again tonight here!!! ------------- |
Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 7:42pm
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have you seen the pictures of aberdeen? my mum best friend lives about half an hour past there and the snow's apparently above knee height in some places ------------- |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 7:46pm
Snow when I got back to the station; had to clear about 2cm of the car before I could get in.  ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:01pm
Ahh the joys of heated windscreens! press a button wait 5 mins then drive off ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:25pm
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5.30 this AM my car said it was -8 centigrade, and it's always seemed accurate b4. That's cold! ------------- |
Posted By: Black no sugar
Date Posted: 02 Mar 06 at 8:52pm
Ah the joys of being a helpless little woman: hubby goes to work early and scrapes the windscreen of my car, leaving minimal effort when it's time for the school run!!
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Posted By: jeffers
Date Posted: 03 Mar 06 at 8:30am
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I would have scraped my lovely lady's windscreen but she is in bet with the nasty winter flu so she is still tucked up in bed! -5 when I went to work BTW ------------- Paul ---------------------- D-Zero GBR 74 |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 03 Mar 06 at 1:17pm
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Had about 2 inches of snow in 2 hours (just stopped) here and the sun came straight out and its melitng already! -------------
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 03 Mar 06 at 7:16pm
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coldest day this week for me was thursday: -3.5 the joys of living on the south coast. but i still had to cycle to work experience in it. gosport suddenly seemed a long way away. school is so much closer and warmer. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 03 Mar 06 at 8:45pm
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Oh you should take a holiday to sunny Southend. 18 degrees 2day. Walking around in a t-shirt!
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 04 Mar 06 at 5:18pm
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what!!!!?? is this southend as in south end on mud? on the thames estuary? methinks your thermometre went wrong. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 04 Mar 06 at 5:31pm
methinks it went wrong too ! But still its not half as bad here as the rest of you have got it!!
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Posted By: laser47
Date Posted: 04 Mar 06 at 7:07pm
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the lake where i sail is frozen solid again ------------- |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 04 Mar 06 at 8:06pm
the aquasports lake was frosen over yesterday. quite fun with the power boat------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 5:38pm
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yet another reason to sail on the sea. ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 5:53pm
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Yeah but i couldn't go sailing today cos the tide was out. But i rigged my 600 up in the garden and pretended i was sailing. ------------- international moth - "what what?" |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 6:04pm
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Pah the tide was out. U should sail at a real see venue. -------------
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Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 6:27pm
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i can sail when the tides out... it just means a 20 minute walk off the beach ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: carshalton fc
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 7:27pm
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our lake wasnt frozen today and it is full so we have a tini 5metre walk down the slip way ------------- International 14 1503 |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 7:44pm
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Our lake is always full (well almost) ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 10:19pm
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But it was flippin cold; even watching - Les, have you thawed out yet ? ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 05 Mar 06 at 11:08pm
Not really got a stinking cold too now! ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Rob.e
Date Posted: 06 Mar 06 at 12:21pm
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They cancelled the Solo open at Frensham Sunday, 'cos the lake was frozen; they did their club race, but I wasn't envious! Mike Ellis: how do you walk to Gosport if your location is the US? ------------- |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 06 Mar 06 at 12:33pm
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Cor and i thought the south coast was supposed to be warm! I live down just north of Portsmouth when I'm not at uni and I swear its not been that cold in Nottingham! Looking forward to being back down south for the summer though! ------------- http://www.facebook.com/bearfootdesign - BEARFOOT DESIGN Cherub 2648 - Comfortably Numb |
Posted By: mike ellis
Date Posted: 07 Mar 06 at 4:00pm
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i think i fixed the us thing. i pressed the wrong button on my profile ------------- 600 732, will call it Sticks and Stones when i get round to it. Also International 14, 1318 |
Posted By: Isis
Date Posted: 07 Mar 06 at 4:03pm
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Thanks for letting us know.
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Posted By: TheSeaFalcon
Date Posted: 12 Mar 06 at 8:41am
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No where else to put it so here goes.... WE'VE GOT SNOW!!!!!!!!! It's properly thick wahey!! So excited...as soon as my dad steps out the door he's going to get a massive snowball to the head! ------------- x--x--x<x>x--x--x Topper 41825 Cherub 2539 (going, going and not quite but nearly gone)! |
Posted By: jpbuzz591
Date Posted: 12 Mar 06 at 3:44pm
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yeah but it was gone by lunch time ------------- Jp Indoe Contender 518 Buzz591 Chew Valley Sailing club Bristol |
Posted By: TheSeaFalcon
Date Posted: 12 Mar 06 at 8:44pm
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I know - pants british weather...grr! But the snowball was a good hit, just incase you were wondering! ------------- x--x--x<x>x--x--x Topper 41825 Cherub 2539 (going, going and not quite but nearly gone)! |
Posted By: timnoyce
Date Posted: 12 Mar 06 at 9:03pm
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I was! Thanks for the update!
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Posted By: Spot192
Date Posted: 13 Mar 06 at 8:00pm
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whatever you call snow over there! |
Posted By: stuarthop
Date Posted: 14 Mar 06 at 4:41pm
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we have 6 inches of snow again but its starting to melt now ------------- |
Posted By: Calum_Reid
Date Posted: 14 Mar 06 at 5:11pm
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Some of the tow's are completely burried at glenshee thats snow. -------------
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