Hammering down in radyr and settling.
Would not drive in this.
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Hammering down in radyr and settling.
Would not drive in this.
Visibility not good
RED weather warning just issued by Met Office for South Wales.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadstool
Take care.
Just about to post that!Quote:
Originally Posted by IanD
Few mm in St Mellons, but it's coming down quite heavily. No wind as such yet - that's forecast later (Storm Emma)
When the relatively warm wet air of the storm hits the cold air from the 'beast from the east', we'll get significant precipitation.
Everyone stay clear of Swansea.
Nothing to do with the weather, just a shithole.
8I'm supposed to be driving down to Cardiff from the Midlands tomorrow morning. Might have to rethink that. Supposed to be on a coach to Brentford on Saturday (plus Devils at IAW on Friday and Sunday). Snow by us has blown away. That said, some light snow now falling.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
Well I left the house this morning at 6.30. I’ve been to Usk, Pontypool, Brynmawr, Ebbw Vale, Merthyr, Blackwood and Caerphilly and back to Cardiff and it’s been the easiest days work I’ve had in ages. The councils have done a great job, the roads are clear and empty, it’s like working on Christmas Day. Hope it’s the same tomorrow.
Just been watching BBC main news and then BBC Wales. According to the news and weather presenters, we are all going to be killed between 3.00pm this afternoon and 2.00am tomorrow !!. The serious looks on all their faces as they are announcing this 'armageddon' is a sight to behold. Something tells me that they are probably all exaggerating a tad, not having had much to keep them going in the last couple of months. Giving silly names to weather systems also doesnt help me take them too seriously, although I must say hearing Derek Brockway waxing lyrical recently over 'the Pembrokeshire Dangler' has given me a laugh. In trying to get themselves 'down with the kids' in the language they use, they are making themselves look stupid and taking the general public for fools.
To be fair, they've probably been told to exaggerate to ensure people actually stay indoorsQuote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
been sent home because of the forecast . thanks boss :biggrin:
never been sent home before !
i wonder if this storm reaches the pinnacle of the 1982 snow storm ? remember digging the way out of my house and snow drifts of around 6 foot on greenway road in rumney.! now that was a proper snow storm ! no fancy names to call it then just a snow storm .lol
TBG is currently between excursions. Went to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam last month and I'm off to New York next month. After Krakow in June I am thinking about visiting in September the only independent states in Europe that I haven't been to yet i.e. Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Spent a week in the dusty forge pub, happy days!. Nothing moved in Ely, couldn't get to work, we all stayed home and sat in the pub.Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
They interviewed an elderly man on BBC news at lunchtime about his meals on wheels delivery and were asking him how important it was for him to get it. They were doing this whilst the dinner was on the table in front of him and it went on for 2/3 minutes. You could see him looking longingly at his fast going cold lunch and getting more pissed off by the second and his answers got shorter and shorter but they still persisted talking to him.Eventually the presenter said 'we had better leave you to your lunch whilst it is still warm' but I think that horse had already bolted. Why do they do this. Why is it news worthy at all ?.
and the bastards left his front door open.Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
I've just heard on the BBC national news that a woman in Gainsborough has fallen on a snowy surface. My God, if some piece can go arse over tip in Lincolnshire then all of Blighty's in peril.
And I bet that she was no oil painting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.
One of the questions was something like "what does it mean to have Frank turn up and bring you your meal" - pause- "how important is it to have someone to talk to" - reply, "yes". "what would happen if Frank didn't turn up" reply "I'd have no-one to talk to.."Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
:biggrin:
[QUOTE=the other bob wilson;4848764]https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...ate=2018-03-01[/QUOT
lost all credibility with the general public - crying wolf and acting like drama queens. Nobody [well, almost] believes they're hype anymore
Pah!Quote:
Originally Posted by MOZZER2
I was living in Garnlydan , just above Ebbw Vale, next to Llangynidr moors, through the 1963 winter.
We had a snow drift up the side of the house that went over onto the roof.
We tunnelled through it after it froze so that we could use the side gate.
We also had to dig a trench in the lying snow inside our garden fence to stop the mountain ponies from walking up to our doors looking for food. We had "ice ferns" on the inside of our windows, it was so cold.
(cue someone posting a link to Monty Python's 4 Yorkshiremen sketch)
You are a berk. That man was my father-in-law. And it was ITV - not like you to get the basics totally skewed.Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
I won't link the Python sketch but the winter of 1962-1963 was almost tropical compared to that of 1947. People were made of stronger stuff due to global conflict and post-war austerity. Back then men were real men and most women looked like men. Scotsmen throughout Scotland but mostly in Glasgow refused to wriggle into underpants and continued to stoically wear their kilts and sunglasses in what were subarctic temperatures. Granted, they were pissed out of their heads and many froze to death but before they conked-out none complained about wee 30 foot snowfalls as you shamelessly have.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
Went through Garnlydan and up over the moors to Crickhowell heading for Brecon in a lorry earlier. To say I was clenched was an understatement. I came back on the 470 past Storey Arms which wasn't much better.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
er,no. It was the BBC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coch
1). It was on BBCQuote:
Originally Posted by Coch
2). The man on it was at least 80, lived on his own and didnt have any family.
3). What difference to the story would it make whatever channel it was on anyway.
Not like you to make yourself look stupid by making an idiotic reply to someone else's post is it ?. Dont let the facts get in the way of you having a go at someone for no reason.
Only one berk on this board at the moment - look in the mirror.
As Barry said the roads are quiet. And in places it's like a ghost town out there.
Went to Talbot Green an hour or so ago, M&S shut, Argos shut McDonalds shut
Seems many people are indoors already battening down the hatches.
..and meanwhile the folk at the Met Office are p*****g themselves laughing..Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Morris
I used to work at sea with a bloke from Three Arches Avenue, name was Simon Arch and he used to frequent the Three Arches. Was a bit of a quiz addict too, especially sport. You may have known him Enoch. Heard he passed away last Summer. Was quite a character was Archie. R.I.P Archie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Mort
Spedger
If you are talking about the lovely old chap called Ralph (Coch's father in law) it was on ITV the night before. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
No, sorry - it was on BBC at lunchtime today, as confirmed by Quiet Monkfish above. Coch was just trying to be clever and it backfired on him. Not quite sure how he would think that I would know who his father in law was anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R
I call it a snoax. Happens often.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
His father in law was that bloke on S4C, duh!Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
Too young to remember the 1947 snow but 62-63 I well remember, helping my Dad to shift loads of snow from inside the attic from our house in Mount! The wind had blown it in between the slates (no roofing felt). If we hadn't checked, it would have melted and made a heck of a mess. What added to the misery was that it was filthy as the snow was mixed with the coal dust that had been building up there for many years I guess. It had to be brought down bucket by bucket through a tiny trapdoor and tipped out of the bedroom window - what joy!
Lottery win?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
I'm sorry for my comments about you on this occasionQuote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
Do you think there is a chance they showed the same clip on the BBC?Quote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
1963 - no running water on our estate in Tredegar for a month.
Every drop had to be carried from a stand pipe in the street. Like a remake of the Sorcerer's
Apprentice day after day. No buses , walking to school and back - 2 miles each way. School milk frozen solid
and one bath a week up my Nan's which was lower down so not frozen.
However we built real igloos and went sledging down steep paths which were like the Cresta run.
No central heating , just one coal fire. Ice on the inside of the bedroom windows.
Off to bed with a hot water bottle and pressed down by several blankets and an eiderdown.
Happy days.
All done on the cheap, m'lud. Very cheap!Quote:
Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
All Cardiff Bus services stopped at 6pm. And there are no night buses.
So stay in and have a few beers. The long weekend starts now
We were a little more fortunate :Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueWales
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What a huge fuss about nothing, hardly any snow in Cardiff, just windyQuote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish