how many southern folk got caught out by the snow?

effin essex county council didnt grit the roads today, so the snow settled nicely.
Took me an hour to drive about 3 miles across town this morning, and didnt even get to work as the roads were gridlocked, and from what I heard on the radio most major essex roads were blocked in some way or another.

I just turned round and drove back home, and my work colleague who was with me was just as happy with that, and I got some jobs done on the sv as well

I've found that when the roads are like that, for journeys under 15 miles or so, mountain bike is the way to go (unless you have a road legal trail bike, or snow chains for your SV).

No but if it rains I'm sure it would be snow when it hit the ground as its cold enough.

One thing I will say my dad was talking to someone who works in the met office weather and he was confident were going to get a lot of snow in January

Originally Posted by Mikey10

were going to get a lot of snow in January

hope not, hate the stuff.

I only have a 4 mile journey, so in hindsight, cycling would have been better today, saw a guy going the other way on a yam r125 this morning, brave or bit stupid, as there wasnt much grip on the roads.


Would be ok if people knew how to drive, followed someone doing 10mph this morning ffs!!

Yeah, jsut got caught out. Bike was warming up as it started. I thought "It'll probably be fine on the main roads, once i get into putney" (which to be fair i think it was) but very enarly dropped it at 3 mph pulilng out my road. Thought i'd take the train instead (Bleh). Waited for the train, which completely failed to stop at the platform, though it was trying. They decided, nevermind, and just cancelled it instead, and put 1/2 an hour on all the rest of the estimated times.

[Dipper]

Nothing was moving round our way, I stuck the studded tyres on the mtb and was the quickest thing on the road this morning, saved me 2 hours over driving, it still unnerves me though cycling downhill on sheet ice the best bit is the astounded looks from stuck motorists

[Littlepeahead]

I got up at 6am, saw the snow, put the cricket on TV, fired up the laptop and emailed the boss to say I'd work from home so had quite a productive day. Instead of spending hours trying to get to and from work I put an extra 4 hours in from my sofa.

The snow round dunstable wasn't too bad on the main roads, just as well as i only have the bike. Shame the whole of dunstable stopped due to the main traffic lights not working and people being unable to cope with them.

[Wideboy]

Snow? What snow? Clear blue sky and sunshine all day here

December is winter time and in this country we have snow in the winter time. No point in blaming the council if the majority of people don't know how to drive in an inch of snow.It doesn't seem to matter what it is ,heavy rain,a bit of snow or icy roads I have come to the conclusion that no matter how many winters we have, southern drivers in general just can't hack it.
Not just the roads or traffic chaos,why close 50 schools in Essex? It happens every year and we never seem to learn so why are we caught out by the snow which was forecast.