Bloody snow, part 2

"Svend" (svend)
02/28/2018 at 05:25 • Filed to: None

It’s -3C, which isn’t cold really.

Granted not nearly enough as many in America and probably a lot of Canada would look at it and go, ‘oh that’s cute, you think that’s snowing heavier’.

While our cousins in the southern hemisphere laugh it up, ye’, you know who I’m talking to.

But we in my city don’t get snow like this. Two miles outside the city it can be arctic conditions while in the city it’s just cold and raining.

So this is an absolute ball-ache.

DISCUSSION (23)

Echo51 > Svend
02/28/2018 at 05:38

Just got a bunch here in southern denmark too. 20cm, loose and fluffy stuff. spent 45 minutes parked on the main road before turning around, probably due to people having no idea how to drive. 10km away in city? There’s nothing...

Svend > Echo51
02/28/2018 at 05:51

It’s crazy how that happens.

You can drive up the M6 motorway in the U.K. and you can tell when you’ve crossed over from Lancashire into Cumbria, not from the road signs but by the clouds. It can be glorious sunshine in Lancashire and then you drive into Cumbria and the sky is grey and overcast, or literally just a blanket of rain, look in your rear view mirror and you can still make out the sunshine back in Lancashire.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend
02/28/2018 at 05:52

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour
02/28/2018 at 06:00

Ye’, you cuz. :p

kanadanmajava1 > Svend
02/28/2018 at 06:47

It’s currently near -20 °C here in south Finland but we haven’t gotten any fresh snow.

Svend > kanadanmajava1
02/28/2018 at 06:51

I’m alright with -20C, I just put a coat on.

Thankfully I’m not back in work for at least another week using up holidays but I want to get some cars cleaned and not just sit in front of the TV and computer all of it.

kanadanmajava1 > Svend
02/28/2018 at 06:57

This temperature isn’t so bad. I’m still commuting with a bicycle.

Echo51 > Svend
02/28/2018 at 07:25

Now 2 hours later even sis complained about getting down here in a Rav4. Also just cleared up again after yet another snow shower and it’s bright and sunny now..

Svend > Echo51
02/28/2018 at 07:34

This is what I’m contending with. Dull sky and three inches of snow.

Kinja'd!!!

Echo51 > Svend
02/28/2018 at 08:15

And ofcourse the Skoda is shiny as always. I take it all the Nano and other stuff really helps the snow slide right off?

Svend > Echo51
02/28/2018 at 08:19

No Nano, just Si02.

It was starting to look grubby with traffic film after a month without a wash but the snow has taken the dirt off.

imadick > Svend
02/28/2018 at 08:23

I live in Canada, it was +12 out yesterday.

CalzoneGolem > Svend
02/28/2018 at 08:32

I’m assuming like our Southern cousins in the US you have little to no infrastructure to deal with snow ( e.g. sand, salt and plows)

Svend > CalzoneGolem
02/28/2018 at 08:42

We have gritters and snow ploughs but we have 80,000 miles of roads in England and Wales alone (225,000 miles for the whole of the U.K.) so we don’t have a large number of machines nor do we get snow often enough to warrant the massive expense on buying, maintaining and storing the machines.

Kinja'd!!!

Maxima Speed > Svend
02/28/2018 at 08:52

Those are some cool looking snow plows.

CalzoneGolem > Svend
02/28/2018 at 08:59

That’s why you need to retrofit those harvesters!

Kinja'd!!!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Svend
02/28/2018 at 09:03

about -5 here at mo... most of the snow missed us tho... just had some flurrys

and because we’re dutch over here a couple nights of cold is enough to give the whole country ice skating fever (translation we’re keeping the rescue services busy by going through the ice left right and center... one dead so far)

think ill go for a skate in a bit :)

Svend > Maxima Speed
02/28/2018 at 09:11

The Unimog U500 is a modular vehicle and can be used for fire and rescue as well as county council gritter work.

Kinja'd!!!