snow watch

[dembethewarrior]

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Blaggers, just been to Treforest and it’s fine

It's a shit hole full of students

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Just logging on after a busy day chasing tax dodgers.
Working from home today, so paying for my own utilities and toilet paper, instead of using that paid for by the taxpayer.
Have I missed anything?

An important job that one, how many did you catch, and how much money did you recover?

[The Bloop]

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An important job that one, how many did you catch, and how much money did you recover?

According to Bluetit I didn't recover everything I should have 🙂

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Wouldn't it be a tad ironic if all the people you were trying to troll were too busy to give you the attention you are seeking.

Just logged off after an 10 hour day in the house. Irony indeed, some people have sad little lives.

[dembethewarrior]

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Just logged off after an 10 hour day in the house. Irony indeed, some people have sad little lives.

Men shouldn't have poncey desk jobs

[UNDERHILL1927]

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Men shouldn't have poncey desk jobs

I was nice and warm that’s all that matters.

Happy International Women’s Day by the way.

[dembethewarrior]

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I was nice and warm that’s all that matters.

:hehe:

Ain't even been cold out today believe it or not.

[superfeathers]

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Couple of inches on the car and some surfaces in north Cardiff but roads etc are fine.

Schools all open around here, took my son this morning.

Couple of people couldn't get into the office though. One from Caerphilly, one from Ponty.

Don’t want to be a grass but ponty was fine, all roads clear.

Rct made the decision to close the schools once everyone was in and the small dusting of snow (pavements I should add, not roads or even the school yard) had started to melt, based on the weather forecast which also came to nothing.

If they now close schools based on a weather forecast rather than the actual weather they might as well timetable the snow days in advance

[dembethewarrior]

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Don’t want to be a grass but ponty was fine, all roads clear.

Rct made the decision to close the schools once everyone was in and the small dusting of snow (pavements I should add, not roads or even the school yard) had started to melt, based on the weather forecast which also came to nothing.

If they now close schools based on a weather forecast rather than the actual weather they might as well timetable the snow days in advance

It wasn't a small dusting though was it

[superfeathers]

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It wasn't a small dusting though was it

I can honestly say that a small dusting is massively exaggerating it

[dembethewarrior]

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I can honestly say that a small dusting is massively exaggerating it

I dropped my car off at a garage, got out my trainers were covered.

Walked to another area of the town to get another vehicle, walked through less snow but 2 inches the majority of the way.

Not sure why you're playing it down.

[bobh]

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People I work with got in from up above pontypool, into Newport. I got in from the valleys, lads made it from Chepstow etc.

Cafe we go to had 1 member of staff today as the other couldn't make it in apparently.

I've been all over today, maesglas, Rogerstone, Risca, crosskeys, crumlin, llanileth, aberbeeg and brynmawr also a little place by ebbw vale called Cwm.

People are getting about, few smaller roads with brown slush, unbelievable the amount of people that won't even try.

My dad grew up in Cwm.
Basically a road along the bottom of a steep valley with as many houses crammed alongside as they could.

[superfeathers]

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I dropped my car off at a garage, got out my trainers were covered.

Walked to another area of the town to get another vehicle, walked through less snow but 2 inches the majority of the way.

Not sure why you're playing it down.

I guess you’re further up the valleys or different part of ponty, or maybe just up a lot earlier than me! I was out with my youngest at 8 and the floor was just wet nothing else!

[Des Parrot]

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Never mind inches, 4 months here in Poland. The ice on some roads is 4” deep. No ploughing, no gritting. And people say the UK is not prepared. Snow, thaw, freeze repeat. Not too bad when it stays around -5 to -8 but when it gets around zero it’s deadly.

[Gofer Blue]

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The UK has always been a big joke to the rest of the world when we get a dusting of snow.

Incidentally, I lived in Garnlydan through the '63 winter. If you don't know it, it's little housing estate perched on top of the hills above Ebbw Vale. The snow that year drifted up the side of our house, touching the roof. We tunnelled through it when it froze.
But the school stayed open all through it.
We were "rewarded" with a half day off later in the year as we were one of only three schools to stay open.

I well remember that winter. We lived in Mountain Ash at the time. We had several inches of snow in the attic which had blown in through the gaps in the slates. I remember crawling about up there with buckets collecting the snow and passing it down to my Dad to dump it out of the bedroom window! It was filthy work as the snow had landed on top of the layer of black dust over the attic floor. Our school didn't close either as I remember. The snow was piled up at the sides of the roads and it stayed there for many weeks because it had turned into ice which was very slow to thaw.