long journey home

[Lainie]

my b/f and his boss left edinburgh at 11am to drive back to glasgow as they were being sent home. its now midnight and he is still 10 miles from glasgow!

[barrowmanandrew]

its a nightmare out there tonight.

i left motherwell at 10-30 this mornin, drove to m73 cut off and headed back home.
a round trip of roughly 8 miles....
abandonned the car 1/2 a mile away and ~~~~ed of to the pub at 8pm ish......

[catastrofuk]

That's insane!

having said that last week I spent 4 hours going just 20 miles :/

[daithi]

took me 5 hrs to drive 120 miles yesyerday evening
the roads were pure ice it was like a sheet of ice

[Lainie]

on my way to work yest morning i saw 2 gritters/snowploughs and NONE of them were gritting or clearing the snow! i was astonished. i made it to work every day last week and none of the roads i travelled on had been gritted so christ knows wtf glasgow city or renfrewshire council are doing. yest would not have been so bad if last weeks snow and ice had been cleared.

i didnt make my work this morning

[allycoops]

Time did your BF get home Lainie?

[Lainie]

he got back just before 1am. a 13 hour journey that normally takes an hour. at least they gave him today off.

[Meat-Head]

my b/f and his boss left edinburgh at 11am to drive back to glasgow as they were being sent home. its now midnight and he is still 10 miles from glasgow!

I used to have a car like that once. Ended up cutting the roof off it
as the rest of it was rotten.

[chroma]

on my way to work yest morning i saw 2 gritters/snowploughs and NONE of them were gritting or clearing the snow! i was astonished. i made it to work every day last week and none of the roads i travelled on had been gritted so christ knows wtf glasgow city or renfrewshire council are doing. yest would not have been so bad if last weeks snow and ice had been cleared.

i didnt make my work this morning

Grit doesn't work in this temperature. as for ploughing, that only skims the surface debris and makes a nice glassy ice surface with absoloutly no traction.
After -10c there's nowt anyone can do except fit chains and hope for the best.

[jcgrumbles]

It took me three hours to travel four miles yesterday in arctic conditions,next time im taking the car

[gmb45]

It took me three hours to travel four miles yesterday in arctic conditions,next time im taking the car

ill get your coat m8

[jcgrumbles]

..lets all get together and stick up two collective fingers at mr frosty eh?

[Lainie]

Grit doesn't work in this temperature. as for ploughing, that only skims the surface debris and makes a nice glassy ice surface with absoloutly no traction.
After -10c there's nowt anyone can do except fit chains and hope for the best.

it wasnt -10 last week or the other day when the snow started. they knew this was coming and should have been better prepared.

its snow funny anymore

[Meat-Head]

It took me three hours to travel four miles yesterday in arctic conditions,next time im taking the car

I cycle to work - it's good fun in the ice-ice-baby.
Just don't go over changes of inclnation. IE don't go across hill just up or down

[krazylegz]

It makes you laugh though, a little bit of cold and snow and the country grinds to a halt, other countries worse off manage it fine.... Luckily I've had hardly any snow down here in Gloucester