Well, it's finally arrived here in the south London area, and while it does indeed look picture-postcard nice, it's cold, slippery, and a nightmare to drive in.
Yep, welcome, therefore, to Snofu'12!
This is the hard stand outside my flats, about an hour after it started to snow.
At the time, it was blowing west to east, and not really that much of a big deal; the flakes were small, seemed fairly dry, and weren't sticking to my clothes. at this time, I reckoned that the warnings were over-hyped, given what happened last time.
This is the main road around the corner from my flats. As you can see, the road was well gritted. again, thoughts of another over-hype were in my head.
This is three hours later, around midnight or so. Hmm. Time to re-evaluate the warnings. Look at the main road. the gritting hasn't happened for a while, and there are two sets of tracks where tyres are cutting a path in the snow in both directions.
A little better at the traffic lights, but not by much. This is when I hit the sack.
This morning. The main road looks a lot better, so it seems like the gritters got out again, thankfully.
But look at the hard stand!
Remember last year? Not
quite as bad, but close!
Looking to the junction again; yeah, miles better than this time last year. It appears the local council got it right this time.
Mind you, it's only taken them close to fifty years to get it right first time, this time, and with government prodding and poking along the way. Shouldn't have to be that way, but at least it worked this time!
And now a picture postcard scene, from out of my bedroom window - enjoy!
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