Snowfall on the west of the island - video

[curiouswombat]

I must start by saying that we live on what was the windward side during this particular snow storm - and most of the snow fell on the leeward side. We had only a couple of inches.

But this video on the BBC news site shows what it is still like on the leeward side.

The farmers on my Friends' List will want to weep, I think.

One farmer has lost almost her stock as she managed to get them into the sheds - and the weight of snow on the roofs caused them to collapse, killing alost all the stock within.

This photo, which is not one of mine, it was taken by someone about 4 miles from our house, gives you the idea;



For those of you unfamiliar with UK road signs, that one is on top of a pole at least 6 feet high. It is the worst weather we have had since 1963 - and the loss of stock is probably worse this time than it was then - lambing has been so badly hit.

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

When it happens it is nearly always over to the west - as a child I can remember my grandfather taking us by car to see the snow piled up beside the road at Cronk-y-Voddy, (where the lady in the video lives) about a month after it first fell, and you could still not see over it, it was like driving between white walls.

When they were showing Arran on TV I was thinking how similar it was - but it only occurred to the BBC that our island was having similar problems a couple of days in. And it is a smaller proportion of us that are without power, of course, as we generate our own, so it is only those whose power lines have been damaged.

The loss of stock is so sad - it will be horrible to have to recover the bodies when it al thaws.