Anyone knee deep in snow yet??

[JanineG]

what's the best/worst snow you can remember?

[originalang]

On outskirts of Liverpool JanineG, keep having snow checks, not a flake!
I spent a few years growing up in St. Andrews, Fife and can remember trying to get to school, literally in knee deep snow, it lasted weeks as well!

[Philanthro]

No snow in Birmingham yet.

[sp1814]

I'm in London and had to fight a couple of polar bears in order to make it onto the bus to work.

Never seen anything like this.

I confidentally predict that I will be the only person in an office of about 100 today.

[Haggisdj]

30 miles north of London and half-way up my shins...

[idalovett]

Nothing in Cornwall. We've got blue sky and sunshine.

[kags]

Light snow in Yorkshire.

[teddybon]

Snow in Bedfordshire Luton schools and airport shut.

[horsestache1]

No snow in south Hampshire yet, but it has just stopped raining!!!!

[sp1814]

All you who have been walking in the snow...look at your shoes.

I've got 'salt tide marks'.

Oh, and ITV are showing 'The Day After Tomorrow' this week.

Very funny, I don't think.

[naz_nomad]

A small town near Toronto called Huntsvile ... you could stand on top of the telephone kiosk when it snowed ...

[anotheoldgit]

1947 Snow over your wellie tops, snow piled 4 foot high in the gutter, where people had cleared the snow in front of their houses (they went to the trouble to do things like that in those days),
We walked along the tops of these walls of snow on the way to school.
When we got to school, the heating had been turned off so we had to sit at our desks in our wet socks and wellies, with our woolen balaclava helmets on, and overcoats (those kids that had them).
Saturday mornings we would pull our sledges 3 miles to the gas works to queue for hours for a sack of coke for the fire back home. Sometimes you would get near the front of the queue only to be told they had run out.
Yes it was tough back then, perhaps that is why the pensioner of today is more resilient than the present generations.
Nowadays even at the threat of a bit of severe weather, schools are closed (so the staff can have a duvert day, me thinks), and transport and services disrupted.

[smudge]

I remember my Mum, Dad & older siblings telling me similar stories anotheoldgit.

Probably 'cos I was born in Aug 1947!

I love snow & couldn't resist donning me wellies & going outside at 09:30 this morning to measure it! It was 5 inches deep then & has been snowing ever since, so I expect it must be 6 inches by now!

I bet it'll be all slushy by nightfall tho'!

[sp1814]

Ahhh...but I suspect you're all talking about snow that fell outside large cities.

As far as I can recall, the last time we had snow like this, I was watching the Stanley Baxter Christmas Special and Slade were still having hit singles.

(Anyone under 35 won't understand a word of that).

By the way - as an adult, snow sucks

There...I've said it.

[Mammar]

What memories you conjure anotheoldgit!
I'm a bit younger than you, I have to say, but I had the luxury of a woodburning stove at school. Our balaclavas used to dry out on it and stink the classroom up with that woolly smell and we used to put the crates of milk near it to thaw out otherwise you had an early version of a snow cone to drink
Crikey, I feel old now!
And, yes, sp, we were out in the Shires