Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#81
My wonderful neighbour has just been and gritted our path, we had salted it but the grit makes it so much safer.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#82
I must be the only one putting out water for the birds around my way, I put two bowls out before going into town and both empty upon my return plus the feeders had been visited.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#83
snow falling and laying up my way. 1 inch plus at the moment, cars are running at snails pace, bus service in doubt.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
#84
Looking at The Guardian website (I must be desperate!), whatever weather we may have had, others have had it far worse.
Lew Finnis
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#85
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
- Posts: 399
#86
Leisure centre closed, DCCA closed, Tesco sending staff home, maybe only local staff being kept on ?? ...so may catch reduced cooked chickens and bits maybe, anyone want to brave it?? About 2 inches up here at Whitfield and cars struggling up melbourne a little bit, buses still making it, snow still coming.
STAY SAFE ..STAY AT HOME IF YOU CAN.
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
- Posts: 399
#87
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#88
Saw a funny sight earlier when a bloke(not a child) was coming down my road on a sled with his Golden Retriever to the side of him, tail wagging and trying to kick him off.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#89
With the benefit of hindsight, overground railway traction that relies on 3rd rail conductivity has its limitations. Curiously, there appears to be quite a few people who believe there is a magic wand to cure this overnight and preferably sooner. Mind you, I do miss the class 47 diesels and remember when they were new.
(Not my real name.)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#90
Veolia playing catch up and collected the refuse in my road this morning.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#91
A lot of heart warming stories came out of the big freeze with businesses opening their doors to homeless people at night and providing them with food, close to home Bayliss coaches had cancellations so made themselves available for getting shopping for the housebound or getting people to their GP surgery. I knocked on the door of a 90 year old neighbour and asked whether she needed anything down the shops, she said yes so I gave her my shopping list - no point in both of us freezing to death after all.
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
- Posts: 399
#92
The only thing of snow is my snowman in garden it was good whilst it lasted
If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#93
Severe Weather Emergency Protocols are in operation on the night of Friday 16th March and will remain in place over the weekend due to predicted low temperatures. To access this service during normal working hours please contact DDC on 01304 872265 or the out of hours service can be contacted on 01304 821199. A further update will be given on Monday.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
#94
Been snowing up here in Whitfield since 8.30 though it hasn't settled on the road yet. (Famous last words?) Looking at Traffic England cameras, it seems to be patchy across Kent. Wiltshire seems to have had much more with some railways closed.
Lew Finnis
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#95
Much the same as where I am but prolonged heavy snow is forecast overnight so we should see a covering of the stuff tomorrow morning.
Guest 1395- Registered: 5 Nov 2014
- Posts: 463
#96
I don't think it stopped all day during daylight hours. My plans for tomorrow have already been torpedoed as I don't fancy trying to get the car out.
Lew Finnis
Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#97
We got off lightly again.
Look at today's weather in Dawlish, with trains still running.
https://www.dawlishbeach.com/cameras/free-cameras/the-blenheim-cam/Karlos- Location: Dover
- Registered: 1 Oct 2012
- Posts: 2,599
#98
More snow... just in time for the summer skittles season starting tonight
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#99
I realise we have been luckier than most with the weather recently but that wind cuts right through like a knife. Had to put fresh water out for the birds this morning after the bowls froze over.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#100
Spring is expected to arrive tomorrow and last through to Easter and clocks go forward this coming Sunday.