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Snow report No2

TTR · Powermonger!!

Couple of inches here at Exton. Side roads not good but main Exeter-Exmouth road running freely. Was snowing heavily but stopped a few minutes ago thank goodness!

Expecting a few deliveries today - including some furniture to sit on over Xmas - so hope the snow stays away hmm

GREGORYPEECK · Clubman B

two inches over Bovey way, daughters gutted she still has to go to school. I.m thinking great i can go play in the snow, never to old!!

Torr · Expert

AND its Snowing in Heybrook Bay !!!!

The Zimmer frame brigade are all attempting the 1/4 hill past the Eddistone Inn, and slithering back down
... all posh cars.. BMW AUDI MERCs ...etc

May go out later and do some salt spreading... the old fogies wont think of that !
Obviously manual work their poll tax should pay for

I'm moving to Cornwall next week

Lost · Expert

we got snow snow snow still falling layed 0900hrs Dawlish /T/mouth Haldon

jacks · Expert

Two inches at Newton Poppleford, looks very pretty.

kevinred · Clubman A

1.5 inches in Tiverton, still snowing. Main roads to M5 Clear.

Several HGV's stranded on top of Bickleigh Hill (Road to Crediton).

Not good working weather, and thats for sure cry

KronreifTrunkenpolzMattighofen · Devon's Best

Had an inch in Plymouth, just got back to Chard, same here, A38 & M5 all fine, slow near Exeter airport.

TTR · Powermonger!!

Most of it has gone but the temperature is plummeting and more is forecast this evening.

Just heard that Derek H from Exmouth came off his XL on an icy Woodbury back road and is currently on a trolley somewhere in the RD&E so please be careful out there if you have to travel tonight folks.

I managed to get a bag of rock salt which I have spread on the drive to see what it will do.

Ming · Devon's Best

Loads down here in Torquay but the main roads are okay. Lots of numpties going too fast on clear stretches only to find the gritters haven't gone all the way and they're outta control - saw 2 cars hit the same kerb and then hedge in 3 minutes today - glad I parked out of the way and walked with the parcels hmm

Big worry is if the wet roads freeze overnight as I'm due in at 6am again and one non-attendance loses me my Xmas bonus furious

TTR · Powermonger!!

Ming wrote:

Big worry is if the wet roads freeze overnight as I'm due in at 6am again and one non-attendance loses me my Xmas bonus

You may be lucky in the balmy south but our road has already gone "crunchy" cry

wackyracer · Powermonger!!

snow in sidmouth this morning, some yellow streaks in places , cant think why

got to a junction in town at 7 this morning turned wheel in car and carried on forward without turning into said junction, tried to take evasive action but the inevitable happened, mounted the pavement for a brief period and scared one of the foreign waitresses from work who was nearby so i offered her a lift to work wink

got to work 5 mins later and she thanked me for the lift and then said you english are mad and i replied its a 'wacky world' we live in, with a smile of course or was it a cheeky grin biggrin

Then at lunch time 2 gorgeous girls who work in the hotel came out and made a snow man from all the snow on our lawns, placing carrots in various places and ripped of 2 privet branches from a nearby bush to use as the snowman's arms a twig for a mouth, bin liner for a scarf, carrot slices for eyes, a small bucket upturned for a hat, then me and my work mate realised an uncanny resemblance to one of us wink

Still i didn't mind it made my day watching them bent over gathering snow and also what a way to have an extended lunch break biggrin

Roll on monday for xmas work drinks and foreign babes having a few glasses of plonk and getting into the kissing mood wink

crikey better have me annual bath biggrin

I know dream on wacky wink

wackyracer · Powermonger!!

Ming wrote:

- saw 2 cars hit the same kerb and then hedge in 3 minutes today

Good job you didn't see me this morning then biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

numpty yep, i'm safer on a bike honest.. i think!

TTR · Powermonger!!

I hope Mrs Wacky doesn't see this thread wink

Shaggy · Clubman B

wackyracer wrote:
Roll on monday for xmas work drinks and foreign babes having a few glasses of plonk and getting into the kissing mood

Need a chaperone Wacky? wink

You could find yourself in a situation?! biggrin

jt · Powermonger!!

Plenty here in Honiton, on call now for work tonight hmm

as expecting a pasting in the early hours of the morning...

jt · Powermonger!!

And no tasty waitress's where I work yawn

KronreifTrunkenpolzMattighofen · Devon's Best

Went to collect the missus from work in Yeovil this afternoon- she insisted on driving herself home - guess who got stuck in her car park..............

Clayton · Clubman A

Show her this Nick, but make sure you have a clear escape route biggrin

PeterBc · Clubman B

Hi Clayton,

I suspect A and E will busy tonite both admitting and extracting nuts...or those nuts whose nuts were kicked after pointing out an obvious fact of life...ouch disbelief

I'll see you there

PeterBc · Clubman B

wackyracer wrote:

I know dream on wacky

I'm unsure where it should be posted but there's a living vicariuosly thread that should be available to you Wacky - good luck, bon chance, saluti berlusconi...

KronreifTrunkenpolzMattighofen · Devon's Best

Oops, should have checked the volume...... Off now to buy some wine - in the snow.

TTR · Powermonger!!

TTR wrote:

Just heard that Derek H from Exmouth came off his XL on an icy Woodbury back road and is currently on a trolley somewhere in the RD&E so please be careful out there if you have to travel tonight folks.

Broken leg cry

delvey91 · Devon's Best

Nasty

My freind attempted going to work. Big mistake

Lost · Expert

Dawlish/teignmouth shaldon big snow nearly got stuck in the white stuff in shaldon at 4am isnt it marvalous how alcohol renders u unconcouse like that /and its always her drink must of been spiked mmmmmm yeh yeh yeh

KronreifTrunkenpolzMattighofen · Devon's Best

Only mode of transport today is the bike. biggrin

jt · Powermonger!!

Been out this morning for a play with the kids biggrin

The trusty Freelander....

Youngest stood in wrong place at wrong time biggrin

Brockstar71 · Clubman B

Loads of the stuff again here on Exmoor. Don't think I'll be going anywhere for the next few days!!

hampsterracing · Devon's Best

I had a lot of fun driving home from crediton at 6am this morning !!

empty front wheel drive vans dont seem the best vehicle for snow ........

get the bike out to play chris

i will try and get out tomorrow if i can get some fettling done first thing.

Ming · Devon's Best

hampsterracing wrote:

I had a lot of fun driving home from crediton at 6am this morning !!

empty front wheel drive vans dont seem the best vehicle for snow ........

Rear wheel drive Sprinters aren't any better...even with traction control hmm

My Pug Expert got me to work in Exeter from snow-bound Torquay at 5am this morning no probs.....the Sprinter was still spinning up at 2pm confuse
Mind you - turning the TC off on snowy roundabouts is a larf wink

jt · Powermonger!!

hampsterracing wrote:

I had a lot of fun driving home from crediton at 6am this morning !!

empty front wheel drive vans dont seem the best vehicle for snow ........

get the bike out to play chris

i will try and get out tomorrow if i can get some fettling done first thing.

Had a big Talbot Express van disbelief

for work years back with front wheel drive......

If you had any more that a bag of shopping in the back it would get stuck on wet tarmac - bloody hopeless.

Saw a good home made mod on a Transit pick up once, the chap had made up an axle with two small rubber wheels either end which mounted on hinges above the back wheels.

He would then pull a pin and drop it down so the 2 wheels would rest on the 2 inner tyres on the back axle and then he would lock it there with a bar arrangement.

This worked as a diff lock - never saw it used in snow but it was very effective on muddy fields etc.

Maybe you need a 4x4 tranny wink

Or the ultimate !

Used a few of these over the years - (we have a few in work) and they truly are unstoppable......

Probably a bit OTT for parcel delivery I guess hmm

but hay would make it a lot more fun biggrin

Ming · Devon's Best

JT - I'd never get my spindly body up into the cab of that behemoth disbelief

Tomorrow I shall mostly be staying on the bus routes as the council has pretty much cleared all of them. Poor sods who live on a hill that has been untreated will have to wait for the thaw......or, here's an idea - go to a shop and buy things hmm

TTR · Powermonger!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/329 - have a look at detail for Monday - methinks we might have a Snow Report 3 tomorrow cry

Nige · Expert

I went form Exeter to Reading and back in one of these once it took 12hours disbelief

waterboyrob · Novice

that looks a little like my old R6 how long has your friend had it? and whats the reg

-- Edited by waterboyrob on Monday 20th of December 2010 12:47:24 PM

delvey91 · Devon's Best

About a year, reg is n666bye

No damage when he dropped it just on the crash bung!

few more pics

???

-- Edited by delvey91 on Monday 20th of December 2010 12:38:44 PM

-- Edited by delvey91 on Monday 20th of December 2010 12:39:09 PM

waterboyrob · Novice

very close, looks nice