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addjunkie
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See the gales took the garden furniture! Weve about 11/2 inches here, wettish.
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Thats the dog training stuff, gets used but never put away...
Jelly_Sheffield
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Very pretty walk from Froggat to Birchen along the edges.
Weather was intermittently heavy drizzle and -5 wind chill, followed by a roast.
Driving out there this morning was lots of fun, stopped to offer several people assistance but they all assured us they were fine, despite appearances to the contrary.
It never ceases to amaze me people who are obviously deep in the brown stuff spurn offers of help.
Similarly, how an endless procession of cars drive past a car that's broken down, but as soon as yours truly stops to offer assistance one or two will stop to help...
Jelly_Sheffield
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There was a very cold wet lad in the carpark of the pub we stopped at whose quad wasn't starting that gladly accepted help...
After a few minutes of faultfinding it turned out he had flicked it over to the reserve tank when he last used it, filled the main tank and forgotten to switch back.
His equally cold wet missus was inside warming herself by the fire, and had determined that he owed her a slap up meal to compensate for having to help him push the quad the last half a mile to the pub.
He was last seen being vague about the exact nature of the malfunction whilst assuring her it would get them home.
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Living in the lakes I was always the one with a Land Rover, so when it snowed every one of my mates appeared at my house and we all went for a bimble up the back roads to coniston etc. remember one night, about 11:30pm, minus 2 and snowing hard we came across a smart car in a ditch.
I always check them and discovered foot prints leading away. We were at least 2 miles from the nearest house and the snow was deep enough to be of concern. Followed the track and 1/4 mile later found a bloke in shorts, flip flops and t shirt trotting down the road. Pulled over and offered him a lift to the next village c~5 miles away. “Nah it’s alright, I’ll walk”
Needless to say he got effectively thrown in the back and transported. Absolutely clueless, and it came as no surprise to find out he was from out of the area
Fascinating documentary @Robotstar5I watched the big snow of 1982 documentary last night, I didn't realise how badly it affected this country, I had to smile at the bit about the Queen not been able to get home due to road conditions, imagine been a country pub owner when someone knocks the door and asks if you can put the monarch up for the night
At least we could dig ourselves out to go shopping, get to work etc.
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I was just shy of 18 that winter and I can clearly remember our kid's Capri being completely covered by snow, and Dad sending me outside every day to clear the snow away from around the house.
Here's another winter documentary, and a walk along the Pennine Way from Cow Green Reservoir in Upper Teesdale past Birkdale Farm to High Cup Nick is still one of my favourite walks.
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Heavy rain for the last few hours so all the snow's gone.
Jelly_Sheffield
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Same here, I expect there to be localised flooding in the next village over and on one of the roads into Sheffield at some point this evening with all the snowmelt added to the rain.
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Watching lunchtime news article about the severe storms in the USA , wondering how long it will be before they arrive here? The big snow of 82 stopped me from getting the last couple of miles to work for a couple of days but it was nowhere near as bad as 63
Jelly_Sheffield
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Bingo! Two roads closed.
First one by a small stream running clean over the road about 3ft deep at a speed more than fast enough to sweep a vehicle away,
Second is approx 2ft deep based on the number of gate bars covered in the field entrance, and covered for at least half a mile by the river coming in over the neighbouring fields, would be passable in the truck without undue hassle but deep enough that there's no point chancing it for the sheer hell of it.
A third road has a dip with getting on for a foot of water in it that's proving passable to most cars with careful fording, but did claim a BMW 3 Series behind me which drove into it way too fast, and then conked out in a cloud of steam about 50m down the road...
I won't go through water deeper than the wheel rim on my two newest cars - the air intakes are low and behind the front bumpers - wouldn't take much, especially if someone comes speeding the other way.
My old '84 Renault 11, air inlet on top of the engine at the back . . . water coming over the bonnet, front wheels lifting off the ground on each wave to pass . . . draining water out of the headlights was a pain however.
My old '84 Renault 11, air inlet on top of the engine at the back . . . water coming over the bonnet, front wheels lifting off the ground on each wave to pass . . . draining water out of the headlights was a pain however.
