by Andere Richtingen » Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:45 am
Nowhere close to snowed in but there's a lot of the white stuff out there! Only a thin, crispy covering at midnight but we woke this morning to about 5 or 6 cm and it's still coming down.
I yomped the bin down the drive last night - not in my slippers, Laurie - but just heard someone from the council on the radio saying they don't expect to be collecting today. Hardly a surprise, really.
Most of the local bus and train services have stopped; the Lincoln bypass was at a standstill for hours due to stuck lorries. Glad I don't have to be anywhere. I remember the winter of early 1963 when the snow and ice went on for four months. We lived in a very rural village and I travelled by bus to school about 6 miles away. The school never closed due to weather and the buses always got us there and back even if we were sometimes late. My dad did shift work, travelling on a motorcycle with sidecar and never missed a shift - although he sometimes described the trip as "a bit alarming". I think the main difference now is the proliferation of power assisted steering which makes it more difficult to "feel" the road beneath your wheels, making a kind of disconnect between driver and road and so it's easier to lose control in these conditions.