Snow on the Uk-POLOS logo

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:36 pm

Snowed for about half an hour this evening, nothing settled.. instantly everybody turned into an old granny even though the roads were barely wet with it

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:37 pm

its lying around up here.... and i have a hole in my roof

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:44 pm

well i did take it a little slower, after getting some wheelslip on takeoff, but after i realised it was probably a bit of gravel or something and grip was still good, i went at the limit minus one (on a road good for about 55-60 in the dry .. slowed for tighter ones)

just trying to get home without a time limit, on a now-wet road that could flash into ice any second if the snow continued to fall, best not to hare it...

didnt actually come across many grannies... most people actually driving like the polar opposite (hello mr new-beetle tailgater), similar to the guy going up and down my road in a T5 estate about 10 minutes after i got home, very vocally doing his damnedest to get wheelspin and lock the brakes up ... not really doing all that well as the numpty failed to register the snow had melted super-quick on the road (sun shining on it all day) and was merely a bit moist. pffft!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:48 pm

Nah, around here everything was wet, but there wasn't enough snow and it was melting too fast to ice up. Followed an escort doing 35mph on the main roads all the way home, until I got fed up and overtook.. I'm a believer in taking it easy in nasty conditions, but that was just taking the p***..

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:00 pm

chances are that's how they drive anyway and hadn't altered their driving style one little bit to allow for the potentially challenging conditions. they'd still be doing 35 in a raging foggy blizzard on black ice at midnight, as well as midday in the height of summer.
(hello also the picasso driver who, if there had been any ice, would have sailed right across "that" crossroads with all 4 wheels locked due to far too quick junction approach)

escort drivers, pfftl..

got horned by one driving similarly by zipping past them on the lanes between notts and the m42 ... theres not many places on those roads that allow 55, let alone speeds significantly over 60 ('cept for two/three notable very nice open parts*) but rolling at an almost cruise-control 35 was, as you say, taking the ruddy michael. the temptation after they displayed their disgust, to drop slowly thru 35...34..33 ...... 25, and watch them tailgate, was almost unbearable. too bad boring sensibility won out and i continued at more highly variable speeds (40 thru 70..)

* I suggest you check it out, as there's this awesome bit where it snakes a bit, but it's on a flat open plain - you can see for about a mile and a half including all the corners, and they're all good for about 80. It's a joy to, in one of the few places offering it in the world, safely overtake on corners around about eight follow-the-leader gimps. Just got to look out for an entirely different subset of gimps pulling out in front of you once you've finished the maneouver - there's a very, very good visibility T-junction about 1/2way along where folk just pull out of as if they've been blinded.. and seem shocked when you scoot right round them (at ~20mph), not lifting off (~70), with horn blowing...

Knowing my luck however, it's going to be arctic-class snowstorm tomorrow night and the commute up to college will be hellish - choice between non-moving A453 / A610, or country lanes suddenly good only 10-15mph along most of their length, 20 in some places, walking place (or no-go!) the rest??

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:04 pm

And knowing mine, it's be a blizzard tonight, and I'm meant to be going to reading tomorrow and bath after that on university visits.. that would be typically bad timing - bad enough having to tackle the M11, M25 and M4 through rush hour anyway..

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:12 pm

christ, i'd bite the bullet and get up early to ride the train there......

no, actually, silly suggestion. snow will scupper the trains even worse than motorways, and Bath uni is at the top of the most incredibly huge/steep hill you have ever seen, out of the town. Walking up there would not be reccomended (though there may be a bus! might not make it in snow though). ... driving up/down there with dodgy traction, i'd reccomend taking the longest way round you can find instead! baths pretty car unfriendly btw!

thinking of buses, saw the photo of that coach crash today --- fair enough, the tyres dont look like a winter pattern and really appear inadequate for something of that size even in the dry... but the suggestion that they were trying to corner at 65mph on that bit of road, when it appears quite straight and it was clearly single file traffic thru the snow...?!?! dodgy! (were the cars/trucks all doing 100-110kmh as well, without wiping out??? 65kmh, perhaps..)

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:18 pm

Yeah, I know the hill you mean, steep as hell.. the youth hostel I'm staying at is half way up it as well, so if it snows overnight it's a long, long slide down to the bottom

(also means there's not really going to be another way around, once I stop for the night I'm kinda committed..) Still, I'm sure it'll be alright. I'm confident enough driving on snow, I was better than most people on the road when I went out in the snow last year two weeks after passing my test.. plus new tyres, light car etc, all helps. Might just take a rope just in case though

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:19 pm

get some AutoSocks!

you're only gonna need em for about three miles in total after all....

if not available, ordinary chains...... or im sure a load of old rags lashed tightly to the wheel with garden twine will emulate the effect nicely

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:27 am

Just snowed again here about 2 hours ago, about an inch of powder.

So I've been out acting immature in the 1litre

Yokohama AVS Sports have no grip whatsoever on snow....

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:39 pm

agreed, 1.05 + budget tyres + snow + deserted (and untouched!) road = grins

you can, like, pretend you have power... or a decently functional handbrake

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Wed Feb 23, 2005 11:43 pm

I've just driven from one side of the country and back again, and still have not hit a decent bit of snow to have some fun with

Driven through enough of the stuff falling, you'd think -some- would settle.. honestly, it was like being stuck in the Starfield screensaver on the way home this evening, just so mesmerising it was scary.. but still nothing settled

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:32 am

mmmmmmmmmmm pretty flakes............................... oh........ hedge...... mmmm ........ flakes *thump*

freaky isnt it

same story here though really ... flurries, then it clears again... hardly anything settles, that which does is just a danger rather than entertainment. feh.

looks like we've had another light dusting whilst ive been here in fact.

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:18 pm

just noticed.... its gone...!

Si_GTi · Post by **Si_GTi** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:54 pm

carmadaaron wrote:just noticed.... its gone...!

Not here. Still dandruffy

Maybe I should clear out my cache and see what happens when the page reloads...?