Snow in London... [purplecthulhu]

That suggests that my optimistic, "Don't worry dear, maybe it's entirely different weather on the other side of the Ridgeway," was just the hope talking.

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Its fantastic!!!!
Going to cycle :)

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I won't be cycling :-)

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So you're putting your trust in the transport system, which you expect to collapse...

Get on yer bike!

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Yes - and as expected there were significant delays on a lot of the tube lines.

I don't yet trust myself on ice and snow on the bike. After some practice away from hurtling lorries I might try commuting in this weather, but not just yet.

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Just watch out for the idiots with a letter-box sized area cleared on the windscreen. A danger to everybody, but probably especially to cyclists.

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Oh, how I always longed for a 'snow' day as a child. No such thing in a sunburnt country. :)

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But you had snow not so long ago didn't you? :-)

We don't get explicit 'snow days', with schools closed, here - maybe in Scotland, but not in London. No, we just have to face the chaos of a transport system and drivers in cars who don't know how to cope with even an inch of the stuff.

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Not just in scotland. We got them in Birmingham several times whilst I was growing up.

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We got snowed in twice when I was a kid, in northern Derbyshire.

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When I were a lass in Somerset, there were a few days each year when the day kids couldn't get across the Mendips to school. Of course since the boarders (and indeed many of the teachers) lived on site, closing down for the day was never an option.
But I did get a week off in 1982(?or whenever the really hard winter was in the early 80s) when I couldn't make it from Heathrow to school and was marooned at a hotel and then in Bath.

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Yes, that would be 1982... My parents drove me from Bletchley to Bristol that January so that I could go for an interview at the university. Half the staff didn't make it, which didn't impress after our long journey past window high snow drifts.

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Yeah, I think that was the winter I tried to walk to work some four miles away and sat on my backside at least five times in half a mile, so abandoned the attempt. Even Sheffield, in the days of the Independent Socialist Republic Of South Yorkshire's utterly superb buses, had no public transport for about a week...

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Yeah, the hilly areas got snow, though it would not have been enough to keep people out of school I think. Mind you, we did get sent home on days where it got over 40 degrees. :)

BTW, you should check out the lj of Dalekboy for some awesome pics of Mcnaught on this side of the planet. I've already told him I'm sending you. Cheers.

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You might also want to have a look at the ESO site now that the professionals have got into the game.

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It's almost like it's really winter!

I hope the plumber doesn't use this as a reason not to come. I don't want to waste a second day having to stay home all day because of him. (Mind you, I might well have worked from home anyways. But that's different from having no choice in it.)

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we had people playing bumper cars with full-size vehicles (http://www.kgw.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=114046&catId=131). (non-WMP version (http://youtube.com/watch?v=SPE8vL5hlFA)) (via (http://pfarley.livejournal.com/100766.html) via (http://jemale.livejournal.com/79877.html) via (http://neuracnu.livejournal.com/) via (http://varro.livejournal.com/195606.html))

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Of course.

It did. With the Central Line and the District Line having "severe delays" (which means one train every 20 minutes/30 minutes)

inamac and I were effectively cut off from our offices. I've just heard a representative of TfL blaming Metronet, and a rep from Metronet blaming the forecast for not predicting exact temperatures and precipitation. I don't know which forecasts they were watching, but the ones I saw were pretty accurate, so I'm siding with TfL.

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I lost an entire morning because of ONE MEASLY INCH OF SODDING SNOW. One inch and the district line grinds to a greasy halt. And it was forecast! Don't the council have gritters they could put out?

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Sadly, London is always like this in the snow. I'm glad I got off so lightly with the Central line this morning - there was a train waiting for me in spite of the allegedly severe delays.

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... my train left 1.5 minutes EARLY and I missed it (I could see it on the platform as I slid into the station but it had pulled away before I could get through the ticket barrier) and then the next train arrived on time and had to wait outside Waterloo for nearly two minutes for a free platform ...

... chaos!

:-)

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purplecthulhu

Snow in London...

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Hey, here in Portland Oregon

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Mutter snow transport ...

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