It's All My Fault...
22 Mar 2013 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatI really shouldn't have posted that picture of daffodils yesterday, and I shouldn't have mentioned to someone that we seemed to have got through winter without snow...
Today we have snow. First there was sleet, driven in gale force winds; and then there were the small, sharp, flakes; and now we have a blizzard of soft thick flakes, drifting in 35 -45mph winds. There are no boats sailing, because of the high winds and stormy seas, and a lot of flights delayed and cancelled. It really feels like winter, for almost the first time since Christmas.
I have been at home this afternoon, and it is quite nice to sit in a warm house and watch the place get whiter and whiter through the window. Except that S2C is due to be at work tonight, our car is parked on a very steep slope closely between two others, and there is only a very limited bus service still running. I am really not sure how he is going to get there. And, as the forecast is for more snow and high winds all night, if he gets there I have no idea how he will get home in the morning.
Bother.
Today we have snow. First there was sleet, driven in gale force winds; and then there were the small, sharp, flakes; and now we have a blizzard of soft thick flakes, drifting in 35 -45mph winds. There are no boats sailing, because of the high winds and stormy seas, and a lot of flights delayed and cancelled. It really feels like winter, for almost the first time since Christmas.
I have been at home this afternoon, and it is quite nice to sit in a warm house and watch the place get whiter and whiter through the window. Except that S2C is due to be at work tonight, our car is parked on a very steep slope closely between two others, and there is only a very limited bus service still running. I am really not sure how he is going to get there. And, as the forecast is for more snow and high winds all night, if he gets there I have no idea how he will get home in the morning.
Bother.
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Date: 22/03/2013 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 08:01 pm (UTC)I am just catching up - I am so glad you are in Paris, it will do you both good before facing the things that will need doing at home.
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Date: 22/03/2013 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 07:05 pm (UTC)Hope you and S2C stay safe and warm.
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Date: 22/03/2013 08:02 pm (UTC)No - it shows that you are a well brought up young man of taste!
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Date: 22/03/2013 07:57 pm (UTC)Glad you are warm and not having to brave the elements. Poor SC2 - hope he stays safe.
We have sleet and high winds here - needless to say, it is bitterly cold.
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Date: 22/03/2013 09:08 pm (UTC)I know - I feel a bit like the Queen Mum when she said that she could at last look the east end in the eye, once Buckingham palace was bombed.
The trouble is that the night shift is only about 4 people and we are actually not all that far away - only about 3 miles - so he is really expected to get there; the problem is that our village gets difficult quickly because we all live up a slope or down one from the main road that then goes steeply down to Douglas. Therefore things grind to a halt all too easily.
So I am quite happily well wrapped and enjoying the excuse to stay in and stay warm - whilst he is out there, somewhere, trying to get to work...
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Date: 22/03/2013 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 09:12 pm (UTC)It's just a pity that S2C has to go to work and I left the car in a really difficult place for manoeuvre in slippery icy slush, or I would have ventured out to give him a lift at least some of the way.
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Date: 22/03/2013 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 08:42 pm (UTC)And fingers crossed for S2C.
*would quite like a bit of proper spring now*
We had two very nice days at the beginning of the month (15° and sunny) and after that it's been back to frosty nights and not much warmer during the day.
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Date: 22/03/2013 09:16 pm (UTC)I looked back to my journal for this time last year - I was saying how warm and sunny it was...
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Date: 22/03/2013 08:43 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 22/03/2013 09:33 pm (UTC)Winter must have its last hurrah it seems.
Hoping it all works out...
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Date: 22/03/2013 10:47 pm (UTC)And I'm quite cosy in a warm house with the wind blowing the snow around in the light of the street-light if I open the curtain and look out the window.
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Date: 22/03/2013 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 10:50 pm (UTC)It is still snowing, but the main road through the village seems passable, so hopefully he'll get back OK in the morning, too!
And this is probably winter's last shout - although I do remember, when D-d was about 7 or 8, there being heavy snow here a couple of days after Easter.
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Date: 22/03/2013 10:03 pm (UTC)We were supposed to miss this lot, which I was glad of, but now it looks like we might catch quite a bit. We already have the sleet.
*taps calendar, meaningfully* Spring, dammit!
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Date: 22/03/2013 10:54 pm (UTC)The BBC weather hour by hour forecast was quite sure that we were only getting about 2 hours of snow mid-afternoon - and that it is currently fine, if still with winds blowing 35 -40mph. So I am not sure what the white flaky stuff whirling in the street-light is...
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Date: 22/03/2013 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 10:57 pm (UTC)But S2C left early for work, and didn't return home - so I presume he is safe and warm indoors!
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Date: 22/03/2013 11:03 pm (UTC)Looks like everywhere is cold; winter, winter, winter, and it's not going away... *sigh*
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Date: 23/03/2013 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 22/03/2013 11:15 pm (UTC)The snow might even reach us here to the south of London tomorrow.
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Date: 23/03/2013 11:21 am (UTC)Has the snow reached you now?
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Date: 22/03/2013 11:40 pm (UTC)Hope S2C has got to work safely, is warm there, and won't get stuck in the morning! Keep us posted!
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Date: 23/03/2013 11:26 am (UTC)S2C made it to work fairly easily, becuase just as he got to the bottom of our road he saw a taxi failing dismally to get up the next one. it dropped the passenger there to walk the rest of the way, and SC was able to use it to get down to Douglas.
He made it home, too.
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Date: 23/03/2013 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 23/03/2013 11:30 am (UTC)That is exactly where we live - one one of those steep roads that runs down to the main road - so you will know exactly why it can become difficult to get anywhere quite quickly.
My plan for today is to go nowhere far at all - although I have moved the car so that it now only has another vehicle downhill of it, but not uphill. The other way around would have been even better... but hopefully we will be able to move it when we need to.
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Date: 23/03/2013 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 23/03/2013 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 23/03/2013 06:37 am (UTC)Needless to say there was a nice coat of snow at casa zanthine this morning (friday) to screw up my commute. First real snow of the winter, and my poor flowers!
tl:dr
Anyway glad you guys are surviving, and hope your daffodils hang in there!
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Date: 23/03/2013 11:36 am (UTC)It is so funny, the way that you weather and mine are so often the same, even though we are so far apart. The pot of tiny daffodils in my yard seem unfazed by the snow!
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Date: 23/03/2013 10:56 am (UTC)Hope your husband gets to work without too much trouble. And back home!
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Date: 23/03/2013 11:44 am (UTC)I'm guessing you are going to have to closet yourselves up for a Virgil vigil...