S'no good

[essayel]

Just had a phone call from other half[or other seven sixteenths because I weigh more than he does now] to say that despite having left home at 7.15 this morning, he and his car and his car pool passengers plus a hell of a lot of other people are all stuck in snow drifts on the Head of the Valley Road. Obviouly it's the wrong sort of snow for the snow ploughs and gritters to get out. Don't you just love the British weather?

Actually it was a bit of a shock to me because I hadn't opened the curtains yet. Best place to be on a morning like this is snugged up in the warm so I'm going to go and huddle up to a nice cosy computer and a red hot imagination :D

Comments

[yakalskovich]

I hope somebody has come and rescued them by now, poor guys?

[aunty_marion]

Crikey. I hope they've been able to extricate themselves!

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Oh I LOVE the feeling of calling in to work saying "Sorry, can't get there, too much snow/rain/etc... " We used to live on a country road which had a low-water bridge* on either side of our house; in big rainstorms we actually couldn't get out when it rained too hard! However, I do hope he gets home soon!

*low-water bridge: I don't know if you have these. Essentially they just pave the creek-bed and that's good enough to drive across in dry weather.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

We call those fords - as in Hereford. Sadly I don't get snow days because I can always walk there. But if I do go in I usually spend the day drinking coffee and writing or drawing. The only people who come up to the museum are kids with sledges to slide down the motte.

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

Hope he got home safe & well. I had an awful time getting to work on Friday - my worst ever journey along that road. For me it was all about the timing of the snow - although the gritters had been out almost constantly the night before, and the ploughs were doing their rounds as quickly as they could (I passed 3 on my 20-mile journey), they just couldn't do it quick enough because the snow decided to come down all at once, all at commuting time of day :-( Took me just over an hour to do the trip, when it's normally 30-40 minutes. And I was shaking when I got there too :-(

PS am still catching up with reading, but hope you've not been got too much by this rain they've been saying about on the telly. I know you're further south than me, but I can't remember how much further...

[essayel.livejournal.com]

Abergavenny, and it has rained a lot but not yet to flooding point. We're waiting "for the Brecon water to come down". That's when the Usk bursts its banks and we all have to organise detours.

That sounds a dreadful journey. I loathe driving in the snow. Am so glad that I can walk to work if it gets bad. The snow further north where you are looked spectacular and terrifying.

[sandra-lindsey.livejournal.com]

I don't mind driving in the snow - as long as there's no one else on the road, lol.