central Scotland totally jammed!!

[appollo1]

Originally Posted by kitkat

feel for you lot. My mum is stuck in the house, luckily she has a full freezer and plenty of long life milk and coffee.

on a plus side if the freezer breaks down she can jsut store the stuff outside!!!

[appollo1]

I couldn't believe on the news last night the amount of irresponsible people that had phoned in to complain about being stuck in the traffic.

All day the reports said to only travel if absolutely necessary but one woman had been stuck in traffic for 5 hours and had her 3 year old child in the car and they didn't have any food. WTF!!! Why did she go out in the car in the first place knowing the roads were so bad and why didn't she take any food in her car with her just in case!!!!

[Bibio]

i dont understand that when in these sort of emergency situations that the Army is not called out to help.

[Bibio]

ooohhh wait i forgot they are all away on foreign soil peace keeping.

[munkygunn182]

Originally Posted by appollo1

I couldn't believe on the news last night the amount of irresponsible people that had phoned in to complain about being stuck in the traffic.

All day the reports said to only travel if absolutely necessary but one woman had been stuck in traffic for 5 hours and had her 3 year old child in the car and they didn't have any food. WTF!!! Why did she go out in the car in the first place knowing the roads were so bad and why didn't she take any food in her car with her just in case!!!!

I'm with appollo1 on this,

While i may disregard the no travel advice, I do it under my own power, i.e. my legs. I tend to find your own legs, with a decent pair of boots on will get you places faster than most things with an engine in it in this weather.

As for traffic, I live on a 0.75mile long, reasonably steep hill. Why in your mind would you believe that your two wheel drive hatchback could deal with that, when its 12 inches deep in snow? The result is, theres between 25 to 30 cars abandoned at the bottom of the road, parked in any manner, so last night when a plough finally got to the village, it went down the hill, stopped as it couldn't pass through the abandoned cars, and reverse back up the hill. Credit to the plough driver for coming out and trying, but i'm afraid our "i'll go off-roading in my fiesta" drivers have ruined it for everyone .

As a result, 24 hours on, the road still isn't clear, a handful of cars have been removed from the bottom and I can only presume the plough will try again tonight!

Originally Posted by appollo1

I couldn't believe on the news last night the amount of irresponsible people that had phoned in to complain about being stuck in the traffic.

All day the reports said to only travel if absolutely necessary but one woman had been stuck in traffic for 5 hours and had her 3 year old child in the car and they didn't have any food. WTF!!! Why did she go out in the car in the first place knowing the roads were so bad and why didn't she take any food in her car with her just in case!!!!

hindsights a great thing , what about the people who had to collect from schools and nurseries?-my mrs called the school to say she was coming to collect our oldest and that was before the school made the decision to close-took my nephews over four hours to walk home from school-the blame for this lies at the feet of the councils who have been scrimping on the gritters and salt due to cuts-we could see this coming for ages and i recon it'll happen again before this winters out

I can understand why people DO travel in these conditions, but if you do choose to go out you only have yourself to blame if you get stuck.

It's quite easy to only make essential journeys.

The decision as to what is "essential" however is not quite so easy. Some will think getting to work is "essential" other will be able to work from home, others are just determined to prove a point that the snow "wont stop them".

And that's when chaos like we saw on Monday happens.

I took my car out today to go to Asda as I was getting shopping for myself my, neighbours and my folks. The number of idiots who think their 4x4 makes them invincible is shocking, I helped dig out two in the Asda car park.

People can lose sight of safety in this weather, if you dont know how to drive in it, or aren't prepared for it, don't go out in it, don't try and be a hero.

the missus got to work yesterday for the first time in a week, by 11am she was calling me to say they were heading home. I told her no, get a hotel and stay put. She did and got home tonight in much better conditions, still a 2.5 hr journey for 40 miles. Her colleague who stays 5 miles from us decide to travel home, left the center of edinburgh at 11am, took 3.5hrs to get to newbridge roundabout (5 miles apx) then got stuck on the m876 all night, got home at 7:30 this morning.
if you MUST travel, be prepared folks and drive safe.
I walked a 5 mile round trip to get shopping today for myself and elderly neighbours, really not worth risking the car for that distance.

I had a nightmare journey home yesterday. Left my work just near the Raddison at 130pm and got home at 8pm. The worst conditions I have ever seen in my life. Ended up coming back through Rutherglen and people were sliding backwards down hills. Few very scary moments when I had absolutely no control of my car, but I can tell you the Ford Focus handles snow better than an awful lot of other cars.

Today I didn't make it in to work as the car was stuck on the drive. Nightmare as I'm self employed. Going to have to try tomorrow but it's -12 just now so the roads aren't likely to be any better.

On the plus side, I work in a complaints department for a car insurer just now so there's a high likelihood my contract will get extended....

[TamSV]

I was surprised to see the East European dudes at the hand car wash in Ayr setting up this morning. I passed again at three o'clock and they were still washing cars (on their own specially created ice rink).