Snow

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

So we’ve had a little bit of snow here in Britain over the last week. It seems that it has caused the entire country to grind to a halt. We aren’t fortunate enough to live on a road that the council deems important enough to grit. I can’t blame them for it though since there are probably less than 200 people living past the point in the village that they do grit too.

Living at the bottom of a hill doesn’t help, it can sometimes be a challenge to get up it and since the bottom is dead-end then it doesn’t help matters for getting out. Still, we seem to have managed it. I’m going back to Munich on Saturday to start work again on Monday and I don’t see there being any problems over there with the snow even though they have undoubtedly had more, but they are used to it.

Below are a few photos from around the house. The snow is about 2” deep. We keep having snow showers occasionally but nothing major. We seem to be in a bit of a black spot here for weather and miss out on all of it, whatever it is. It is never as cold, warm, wet or windy as the surrounding area. Go 10 miles in any direction and there is a foot or more of snow.

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I hope that the airport is open on Saturday, I don’t really fancy being stuck in the airport for a few hours waiting for my flight because the runway has been closed. It is quite late in the afternoon so it may be the following morning before we go if it is delayed.
Despite all this, the weather in Munich looks to be much worse. It is colder and has more snow than here.

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2 Comments to Snow

  • Tom says:
    January 7, 2010 at 11:10 pm

    Thats come nice snow you got there. Must have had about 3in here and is still the good kind of snow, its not iced up yet..

    I’ll let you know if Birmingham gets over run by snow again, assuming your going from Birmingham airport.

    Welcome to crash/stop by in the warm if you get any issues etc!

    • Andrew says:
      January 8, 2010 at 12:33 am

      We might be ringing you on Saturday night then. :P Hopefully everything will be OK. At least we are on Saturday so have a couple of days to get there until we start work again. Saw earlier they are having a grit crisis in Germany as well.

      Will be interesting to see their perspective of the Brit’s paralasis after only a couple of inches of snow.