Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > How are you doing in the snow?

[Dementor]

Great way to spend a day off......don't know why I bothered as the hill outside is still impassable

[bradders]

not with that car Dementor!! As I've found out twioce thuis year, BMW's best joke is their RWD system in the ice and snow. Forget it, leave it where it is and walk is the only solution!!

got the train in today, picked up the car and headed back....30 mins, 2 helpers and a shovel I got out of the car park and onto the road. Abandoned cars everywhere still in Basingstoke!

about 30 slept at the office last night; one girl left at 16.30 and got 5 miles to the nursery to pick up her daughter at 22.30 and stayed there the night; another came back for his car at 21.00 and the 4 miles home arrived at 01.00

got my laptop now so think I may miss the office until the new year!!

[Whele]

I am thinking it has something to do with the temperature hovering around zero, so the UK has this constant thawing and freezing to produce dificult conditions.

Here in Germany we had 30cm of Snow over the weekend and the temperature was -17'C on Saturday. The roads are only ploughed as salt doesnt work at these extreme temperatures, but even so there were no delays, everyone turned up at work on Monday and in conversation it hardly featured as a topic of any interest.

Unfortunately my poor English body couldnt cope, I cycled to work and the extreme cold on my throat has given me laryngitis. No carol singing for me tomorrow

Merry Christmas

[skidlids]

I recall the days when we had a Unimog Snowplough up here at Harwell site, it did a great job of keeping the local roads in and out of the area clear, but alas cut-backs in recent years means it is no more

Now it just cost them people not turning up for work during heavy snowfall,
Back last Easter time when we had several inches of Snow only 2 of us out of 28 made it in

[bradders]

I decided to work from home today, glad I did as they closed the M27 this morning so couldnt have got there anyway! But its still freezing everywhere, so cant imagine Bainsgtoke is that much better than when I limped out of it yesterday

bnow if I'd have still had the Bimmer GS I would have ridden to work....

[TP]

Originally Posted by skidlids

I recall the days when we had a Unimog Snowplough ...

Well I've never driven a snowplough variant but some of my fondest memories of the Army are driving the Unimogs. Especially taking them off-road, they could go places our Landrovers couldn't because they had so much extra ground clearance. I had to dig one out of a stream by myself on my drivers course ... but it was 30 odd degrees, beautiful blue skies and not a cloud in sight. The rest of the course sat on and watched and hurled abuse at me and a few rocks