Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Funny that, I went to drop our lass off in town as she was going to a staff party. On the way back the snow got worse (this was before xmas). It was getting packed on the roads so it looked like a sheet of white glass.

There I was driving along quite happily in my Volvo T5 estate (winter mode selected so as not to spin the front wheels) got up to a bridge before our village and a blasted 5 series pulled out on me...  I wouldn't care but it pulled out at a snails pace so much so I had to slam my brakes on - anti-lock stepped in. I then had to crawl behind this numpty hoping I wouldn't slide on the road going down the other side and bang into them. It's no wonder swedes etc. laugh at us when the country grinds to a halt at the slightest whiff of snow when they're driving about following polar bears footprints.


Edited by Rhys

540 V8 wrote: Just on a note Andrew Rolland was saying in his thread about his mishap with a pothole about the snow and public transport...... (something along the lines of using a rear wheel drive BMW rather than public transport)

Indeedley I did.

The bus timetable out my way has been slashed due to cuts (thanks bus company you did offer a good service but not now) so there are fewer busses out my way so if one gets held up it throws out what few busses there are on the route well off the timetable.

Busses out. 

The trains around Glasgow were stuck due to the fact that an electric train got stuck in the neutral section (isolated bit of overhead wire system that keeps two adjacent electrical sections seperate) so as a result nothing could get in or out of Glasgow Central station bringing a fair chunk of the rail network out of action.

Bring back diesel (one of a few good uses of a diesel engine)locomotive hauled trains so no need for horrible OLE!  Or indeed bring back steam engines!

Trains out

Only option, rear wheel drive BMW driven with due care and attention for the conditions.  I guess I was just lucky that I left early enough to avoid any problems and of course due to the time of year the roads around Glasgow are a lot quieter due to holidays etc.  Its always easier to drive to work around Glasgow on the last few days before Crimbo due to the holidays.

540 V8 wrote: I can only assume us 'southerners' can't handle more than 1 cm of snow without everything grinding to a halt.

Glad you said it an not me

You do have a good point.  All it takes is one ot two person(s) who cannot cope with driving in snow as in that part of the world it isn't very common and the roads will very quickly jam up as others then struggle behind that person just as Rhys was saying.

540 V8 wrote: In fact, Reading council were very heavily critiscised by the AA because they'd not even sent the gritters out before the event.

Yeah the coooncils should hang their heads in shame.  It was forcasted, well certainly the stuff we had but what did they do about it, feck all.

It's not like November was cold and they used all the grit/salt up then!

Atleast we can all say we are all safe and that's the main thing.

thepits wrote: 540 V8 wrote: in heavy snow don't take your rear wheel drive BMW What rubbish! some people just don't know how to have fun!

Tut, tut Simon, you obviously didn't read everything I put! You can't have fun stuck in traffic that boxes you in and can't move. Now when I pulled into the car park on the previous Friday, the snow had only 1 set of tracks and 1 car parked so I switched off my ASR and gave it some beans forming about 15 dohnuts before I let the wheels grip and then did several handbrake turns. I was just trying a figure of 8 when other people started to park so I thought it best to stop hehe!

Now THAT is how you have fun in the snow!

Mike