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Post by Patrick on Jan 31, 2009 13:25:13 GMT
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Post by Patrick on Feb 1, 2009 15:17:02 GMT
Monday 3pm I originally had the weather map from the BBC weather page here - cut and pasted as an image. Trouble is - it still took it's information from the BBC site which updated the image, so it no longer showed the extent that the snow was going to fall on Monday at 3pm! I've moved the picture to the top of the Kitchen page - for a live as you watch forecast! |
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Post by Patrick on Feb 2, 2009 2:43:09 GMT
It's hilarious! News 24 have dragged their news report out for 10 minutes on this bit of snow! Usual - pictures of council lorries filling up, children playing - speaking to a council worker! Just the norm..........and it's all about Kent Sussex London and Hampshire - no one else has had any snow if you believe all you see on the telly! I have it on good authority that Norfolk have had it all day! Interview with the weather girl and footage of the same bit of the Thames Valley on the weather map for a minute and a half! Uh Oh! Now talking to Gatwick Airport - Now talking to someone talking about Gatwick Airport! Now a reporter who was on the Gatwick Express! Nearly 15 minutes on this now! Oh Classic Stuff!!!
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Post by Patrick on Feb 2, 2009 2:47:34 GMT
Still going! After the woman on the Gatwick Express (who works for the BBC) We're talking to a BBC Lorry driver (over more footage of a council depot!) Finished up talking to a BBC bloke (not a reporter) in London - where shock horror! the buses have stopped running and no one can get home! Stranded in freezing temperatures in isolated - deserted - London! Twenty Minutes! Don't ya just Love British Winters? It's like it never ever happened before!
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Post by swl on Feb 2, 2009 9:07:46 GMT
From the front page of BBC news - Top 5 stories - 1. Selfish adults 'damage childhood' 2. Heavy snow hits much of England 3. Heavy snow hits much of England 4. Heavy snow hits much of England 5. Nurse suspended for prayer offer
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Post by Patrick on Feb 2, 2009 9:16:22 GMT
Astonishing number of schools shut in Cumbria - Why? when everyone (naturally) owns a 4x4! Instant echoes of folk from the not to distant past who used to walk five miles to school in all weather! Not too bad up here this morning - started snowing about 2:45am with a light sprinkling - and it looked very pretty by 8 o'clock. Everything's moving though.
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Post by everso on Feb 2, 2009 12:12:15 GMT
During the winter of 1962/63 when it snowed pretty much daily from December to the following March, my school didn't close once. We walked about two miles to and from school every day and the snow was banked up on the pavements. Oh, and the girls at my school weren't permitted to wear trousers no matter how cold it got - just long socks, so our knees got all chapped. In my part of Chelmsford we have, at the moment, about 5" of snow and all the schools are shut.
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Post by Patrick on Feb 2, 2009 13:00:00 GMT
I rest my case Mrs E! My Primary was down a wooded country lane, but it only closed when the boiler broke down (Being so rural it got the coldest temperatures out there - and it was rather old!)
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Post by rjpageuk on Feb 2, 2009 13:21:50 GMT
There are some negatives with living so close to work you can walk as I am stuck in today while my boss works from home.
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