Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road. That's the first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told them there's a
thaw on the way :-(

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Was the really plough needed ? Better late than never as they say.
They have prolly been ploughing busier roads and just now got caught
up.

MahFL wrote:
Was the really plough needed ? Better late than never as they say.
They have prolly been ploughing busier roads and just now got caught
up.

Yes, that's what they are doing in Oxon. The main roads are all clear
and don't need attention today, so they've sent the gritters and ploughs
to the villages that have had no attention for over a week to start
clearing those.

Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road.
That's the first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told
them there's a
thaw on the way :-(
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Well, lucky old you!

Our street hasn't been touched by plough or gritter.
Consequently there are still several inches of soggy snow lying
on top of the ice created by compaction of earlier snow by cars.

It is thawing, but slowly. I can now see the top inch and a half
or so of the cage above my birdfeeder, which was all but buried
on Monday. The cage is about a foot high, so that only about one
eighth of the depth of snow has melted in the three days since
Monday. Simple logic suggests that it could take some time yet
for it all to disappear. So it is likely that the roadway too
will take several more days to clear.

I am unable to take the car out, because if I did I would almost
certainly not be able to get it back into the drive unaided
owing to the ice in the roadway.

My elderly neighbours, unlike me, do not have the option of
walking to the shops pr bus stop.

In the next street, which was almost clear of snow on Monday,
and certainly did not have enough snow cover to incommode even
an incompetent driver in a powerful rear-wheel-drive car, there
is a squad of contractors meticulously scraping the very last
vestiges of snow off the roadway.

Priorities?

Anne

In article , Anne Burgess
writes
Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road.
That's the first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told
them there's a
thaw on the way :-(
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Well, lucky old you!

Our street hasn't been touched by plough or gritter.
Consequently there are still several inches of soggy snow lying
on top of the ice created by compaction of earlier snow by cars.

We live on a close in south east Sheffield on the edge of a housing
estate and in the past ten days we've had two gritter lorries deposit
their load and reverse back up the close... I guess we are lucky in
Sheffield!
--
Wendy Tinley

http://www.theigloo.co.uk/

"Wendy Tinley" wrote in message
...
In article , Anne Burgess
writes
Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road.
That's the first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told
them there's a
thaw on the way :-(
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Well, lucky old you!

Our street hasn't been touched by plough or gritter.
Consequently there are still several inches of soggy snow lying
on top of the ice created by compaction of earlier snow by cars.

We live on a close in south east Sheffield on the edge of a housing estate
and in the past ten days we've had two gritter lorries deposit their load
and reverse back up the close... I guess we are lucky in Sheffield!
--
Wendy Tinley

http://www.theigloo.co.uk/

South of Pitsmoor lass.

First gritter came along my road today. Well, I say gritter, it was a
flatbed truck with two blokes standing in the back shovelling out
grit, but the thought was there.

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:30:02 -0800, RK wrote:

First gritter came along my road today. Well, I say gritter, it was a
flatbed truck with two blokes standing in the back shovelling out grit,
but the thought was there.

Beats the 'snowplough' I spotted in Maidstone Sainsbury's car park during
the big pre-xmas snow: a Ford Transit with two wooden pallets roped to the
front in a 'V' formation. Hilarious and almost totally useless.

On 14 Jan, 18:31, Wendy Tinley wrote:
In article , Anne Burgess
writes

Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road.
That's the first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told
them there's a
thaw on the way :-(
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Well, lucky old you!

Our street hasn't been touched by plough or gritter.
Consequently there are still several inches of soggy snow lying
on top of the ice created by compaction of earlier snow by cars.

We live on a close in south east Sheffield on the edge of a housing
estate and in the past ten days we've had two gritter lorries deposit
their load and reverse back up the close... I guess we are lucky in
Sheffield!
--
Wendy Tinley
/

Wendy

Yes, here in Sheffield they have had the gritters around but they are
dipositing mostly what seems to be builders sand rather than salt.
There will be a big clean up job required once the ice and snow
finally clears otherwise the gutters and drains will get blocked.

Simon S (South Yorkshire)

You many criticise Norman, but how does the snowplough driver get to work?






"Norman" wrote in message
...
Wonder of wonders! We've just had a snowplough along our road. That's the
first
time during all of this snowy spell. Perhaps no-one has told them there's
a
thaw on the way :-(

--
Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.