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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 10:37:55 Reply

Got about three or four inches of snow here. View from my back door.....

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:00:15 Reply

In Scotland we sunbathe with your english temperatures!

To be fair is hasn't snowed up here Aberdeen/Dundee for a little while but its stayed so cold everything is so icy. Everyone was walking on the roads because you literally cannot walk in the pavements since cars and grit trucks generally handle main roads.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:02:44 Reply

Duh it's not even cold here, worst christmas weather, ever.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:20:57 Reply

At 1/5/10 07:23 AM, kroxfire wrote:
At 1/5/10 02:25 AM, DragonFyre9 wrote: Fuck global warming.

wait....
learn your global warming
if it happens england goes into an ice age or thats what the discovery channel says anyway

also the worst part is that england is going to be the best of out of all the countries in the worldas its alot easier to live in cold then extreame heat so we can wrap up warm and watch the french burn


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:24:01 Reply

At 1/5/10 10:37 AM, liljim wrote: Got about three or four inches of snow here. View from my back door.....

looks like a nice warm fluffy blanket


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:30:50 Reply

At 1/5/10 11:00 AM, SantoNinoDeCebu wrote: In Scotland we sunbathe with your english temperatures!

To be fair is hasn't snowed up here Aberdeen/Dundee for a little while but its stayed so cold everything is so icy. Everyone was walking on the roads because you literally cannot walk in the pavements since cars and grit trucks generally handle main roads.

Yeah, but Aberdeenshire Council still shut all the schools for the day, meaning my ungrateful brother has been playing Modern Warfare 2 instead of going to lessons or studying for his prelim exams.

Of course, my Uni will be open ASAP with my exams, ffs.

Ah! The sky is red now. Or orange. Either way, not a good sign.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:38:03 Reply

At 1/5/10 10:52 AM, Tramps wrote:
At 1/5/10 10:00 AM, simon wrote: It's funny because I saw a few people posting that his college was cancelled on Facebook lmao.
They only told us it was closed when I was half way there and stuck on a hill.

That sucks man.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:40:36 Reply

Whoa! That's epic! Here in the states we're like, twenty-something Fahrenheit. We got some major snow maybe a week or two before Christmas, and we're expecting another huge one later this month. This is shaping up to be one exciting winter.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:42:47 Reply

I'm amazed how we got so much snow here as well. We seem to miss out on the big snow storms most of the time but we were lucky (or rather unlucky for others) this time. Me and my sister had a great time building a snow rabbit AND a snow dragon! I shall be posting pictures of them later. Despite the fun I've had, the snow has been bad for drivers around here. There's been two car crashes today (crashes on the roads where I am are rare), some cars getting stuck and all buses were off the road at around 3PM. I was at work voluntary today and getting the bus home was pointless as it took forever to get to my house and I ended up walking back half-way as I knew I'd get there sooner by doing so.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:49:45 Reply

I fucking hate this country.

We burn when it's sunny, we get flooded out of our houses and drown when it's raining, we shut down completely whenever there's so much as 2 inches of snow, we get crushed under falling trees when it's windy, and we complain incessantly about all of it without doing a goddamned thing about our blatant suckage at dealing with it.

Why is England such a pile of shit at coping with weather that would be, at most, classed as 'moderate' pretty much everywhere else?

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:51:14 Reply

I really hope it snows around Essex, our school currently has work experience on, on the first day I was told I couldn't do it so I had to go to school, now i'm sitting in the back of a sixth form lesson.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 11:53:15 Reply

I went to sleep and woke up about 20 minutes ago, I looked outside and the snow looked even deeper this time, I measured it with my ruler and it is just shy of 30cm.

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The way things are looking I doubt I'll be in tommorow as well, but I have a GCSE this week so it could go bad. :o


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 12:15:09 Reply

Screw England shutting down everything because of a bit of snow, heh. We've had at least 15 inches of snow and I still had to go to school today, shitsux. Oh well, hopefully if it snows even more tonight then I'll be off tomorrow.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 12:25:32 Reply

At 1/5/10 12:15 PM, Rohedin wrote: Screw England shutting down everything because of a bit of snow, heh. We've had at least 15 inches of snow and I still had to go to school today, shitsux. Oh well, hopefully if it snows even more tonight then I'll be off tomorrow.

Also, here's a slightly crappy photo from last week. There's been a lot more snow since then.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 12:29:46 Reply

At the moment here in Belgium it is -5 degrees.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 12:38:27 Reply

Scenes from where I am...

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 12:42:59 Reply

I love how some of you are slatting the country and how it's handling "a bit of snow". Come on now, this ISN'T "a bit" of snow. When the hell does this country see snowfalls like this? You lot moan that everything is stopping but we don't get snow enough to deem the need of snow ploughs and shit like that which can move snow quicker. Those things cost money and usually they'd be money not well spent as our snow usually is just made up of cms, not inches.

Enjoy the few days off school/work while you can. Extra holiday for ya.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 12:54:13 Reply

lol I love when other countries marvel at snow when we can get snow so deep you can't even WALK in it..

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:01:36 Reply

Here in SouthEast London there's nothing so far, bar from a few little flakes falling down around midday. I'm pretty glad, since I don't want my shit frozen off, although perhaps just a bit would be alright, not enough to fuck up travel around where I live though, I hate walking about when it's literally fucking sheetice on the ground - a ten minute walk can take 20-30 minutes on some roads when it's like that, minor concussion included.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:06:56 Reply

We got gang banged by lake effect snow for the last few days. We have about a foot or more of snow right now.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:07:19 Reply

Still not had much here, the snow we had here earlier ended. So hopefully tonight we get as much as the other 'peeps' in this thread.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:14:16 Reply

At 1/5/10 12:42 PM, Gagsy wrote: You lot moan that everything is stopping but we don't get snow enough to deem the need of snow ploughs and shit like that which can move snow quicker. Those things cost money and usually they'd be money not well spent as our snow usually is just made up of cms, not inches.

Many of the grit trucks have an attachable plough on the front of them. I went to a small village just outside of Whitby on the 18th December for a few days, which is when the snow first started coming down. The journey took us across the North Yorkshire Moors, and if you've never taken those roads, then trust me - they're treacherous enough as it is without bad weather.

The only reason we made it to our location was because we were directly behind a snow plough/grit truck the whole journey. So yeah, we do have snow ploughing/snow ploughing capable trucks in the UK, though there might not be many of them.

We had to dig a road out, which was a quarter mile long and a 25% incline to get the car out on the return journey, though, since the place we were staying at was an area where even the grit trucks/ploughs wouldn't venture. Getting a rear wheel drive car up a 25% incline still partially (despite our best efforts to clear it) covered in snow and sheet ice wasn't an easy task.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:17:14 Reply

take THAT global warming!

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:18:51 Reply

This title was the best news I'd heard my whole life, I was about to just bust a nut right there but then I read your post and it killed me a little inside.


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:28:41 Reply

Oh NO!! now who'll wear the monocles and go FAH FAH FAH FAH!

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:33:30 Reply

It's getting colder, and a lot colder than normal. . I'm guessing the snow is comming soon :|


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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:35:05 Reply

At 1/5/10 01:28 PM, Sawke wrote: Oh NO!! now who'll wear the monocles and go FAH FAH FAH FAH!

I WILL! i'm sitting inside about to venture into the cold to get fish and chips (stereotypically enough)

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:37:31 Reply

/Obligatory back garden picture.

But seriously, I can't go out there because I don't know where the dog shit is.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:43:38 Reply

A friend of mine posted this picture on facebook, it's the best thing ever.

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Response to England shuts down 2010-01-05 13:57:45 Reply

At 1/5/10 01:43 PM, Obvious-M wrote: A friend of mine posted this picture on facebook, it's the best thing ever.

Holy shit, the thought of moar igloos in the UK suddenly makes me excited. Bring on the fucking snow nao plox, weather people.


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