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Blizzard incoming!

Or maybe not

No snow here, but it is bloody cold.

I went to bed at 9pm yesterday as the house would not warm up at all.

I remember one very cold Sunday years ago when I played C64 games all afternoon as the PSU kept my feet warm.

So far this afternoon I've been out for a cigarette twice. Both times, sudden unexpected blizzard that stopped immediately once I'd finished and gone back inside.

That can't be a coincidence. See if you can snow yourself in at work by chain smoking for the afternoon. Science demands it.

Things I'm not a huge fan of: being snowed in at work.

2 cigarette breaks in an afternoon and it's not even over yet? Wow.. I wish I was a smoker.

Snow in mid march? madness!

"The March winds doth blow, and we shall have snow"

No snow here. Not even particularly cold!

It usually snows in Oxford in March, at least from what I can remember.

Beautiful spring day in Liverpool

Il nege. Plus ca change.

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No, it has stopped now, but I did drop an i.

We have snow.

Snowing in London. Like most things these days, it seems half hearted.

The schools are open and we have a sulking teenager, as it is up to the parents if he has to go to school....

Lots of snow here! MrsA is in Buxton and all the roads are closed due to snow.

Sleety snow here, and howling wind. Proper grim.

The office is quiet.

Got up and looked out of the window to see we had blizzard conditions....went back to bed. Still snowing now. Winter can sod off.

The Starks' first attempt at a family motto was quickly changed...

Snowing, but not lying at home. ~20 miles up the road where we were meant to be working it's a winter wonderland with steep hills & stuck buses. The polis are saying 4 hour queues in the direction of our other work for the day. We have returned home

The wife has just called me because she can't find her ice scraper. It's my fault apparently.

Excellent work.

Snow's melting. This Snowmapocalddon's shit.

It eased up for a bit and now it is lamping it down. Apaprently, this will continue, non stop, until tuesday. So sayeth the doom merchents on Calender news.

Major sporting event called off due to bad weather.

I was worried for a moment that you meant this

Still snowing here. I opened the front door through 5 inches of snow just now. I don't think I am going anywhere anytime soon.

I was reminded of this by the House of Thrones reference a few posts back:

SNOZ. Settling and everything. Much more than a few weeks ago when we made a Snozman.

Loads of snow here and I've got to go out.. I don't like it.

We've had snow on and off in Glasgow for the last few weeks but it never actually lies and just melts off in minutes. It looks really nice and I like walking when it's snowing so that's all good, but I wish it commit dammit!

I was allowed to go home from work early yesterday on the condition that I remoted back in when I got home, as conditions were bad and getting worse - (I can get back to my own server and desktop from the terminal server farm so for all intents and purposes I'm sat at my desK) - two of the three routes from Douglas to the north of the island were already closed and the third was looking touch and go, and if that one closed it'd be a 'stranded in Douglas for the night' job.

(Which wouldn't be too bad on one level as a few of the guys from work already had a night out planned consisting of pub > restaurant > casino (I'd simply decamp to a hotel after that), which I quite fancied but then thought it could well cost me a grand so perhaps not such a good idea after all. Plus I wanted to get home to my family.)

Anyway, it was a bit hairy in places, the 'my tyres are slipping' light flashed several times (ESP I think it's called), and on a few occasions even the slightest application of the brakes caused the ABS to kick in (some of the hills are pretty steep). I'd already put the gearbox into 'ice mode' which was certainly helping, although I did at times wonder if I'd just be better off in a manual. (I could have used the tiptro I suppose, but y'know, I figured all those fancy computers could do the thinking.)

Fortunately the snow ploughs were out (they were working hard to keep that last route open) and the traffic was flowing reasonably well, and no one had managed to do the standard issue 'twat manoeuvre' and block the road by sliding or crashing - so I did get home. Wasn't a pleasant drive though.

Elsewhere on the island a bus did manage this though!

I took this through the window as I didn't want to go out in it.

I've just cleared my drive of snow.. If anyone wants me, I'll be over here, dying in the corner....

I think I'm unfit.

Whoever cleared the path outside our flats has made a pile at the front of my car. Maybe it'll freeze and 'ill be stuck at home on Monday.

One of the neighbours

You live on a steep incline!

I'd suggest inviting him round for a cup of tea, but your kitchen would probably end up getting flooded.

1) I have seen no evidence of snow with my own eyes.

2) Leaf blowers are excellent fun for clearing snow.

Got too vigorous scraping snow and ice off my car this morning and my scraper fell to bits in my hands. Ooops.

Couple of shots from over on the Western side of the island, which was by far the worst hit by the snow.

Both of these locations are part of the TT Circuit (The first picture is one of the fastest straights on the course, when it's not under several inches of snow!)

It's fucking easter, where is the sun!

heavy snow here.