snow watch

[dembethewarrior]

Re: snow watch

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!

I was definitely awake befor you :hehe:

[dembethewarrior]

Re: snow watch

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.

Nice up there with the valleys either side

[PontBlue]

Re: snow watch

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

Councils aren't involved in the decision making as to whether a school closes.

They are responsible for clearing main roads which your post suggested they have done.

[superfeathers]

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Councils aren't involved in the decision making as to whether a school closes.

They are responsible for clearing main roads which your post suggested they have done.

Quote from message from both schools : “ We have received confirmation that RCT has decided to close all schools in RCT this afternoon, following a review of the weather warning for this afternoon.”

They were also named as the decision maker when the schools closed for wind last year.

[superfeathers]

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Quote from message from both schools : “ We have received confirmation that RCT has decided to close all schools in RCT this afternoon, following a review of the weather warning for this afternoon.”

They were also named as the decision maker when the schools closed for wind last year.

I should probably add: https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2023-...n-across-wales

[bobh]

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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.

We were hard back then. Couple of feet of snow? Pah!
We had "central heating" - a coal fire in what was approx the middle of he house floor plan, between the two main rooms.
No heating upstairs - often woke up to "ice ferns" on the inside of the bedroom windows.

[dembethewarrior]

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We were hard back then. Couple of feet of snow? Pah!
We had "central heating" - a coal fire in what was approx the middle of he house floor plan, between the two main rooms.
No heating upstairs - often woke up to "ice ferns" on the inside of the bedroom windows.

You had no other choice.