Snow what snow

[atbman]

And they've closed 41 schools in Bradford district.

I remember back in the Great Winter of '47 when, age 6, I walked 1.5 miles to school and we had power cuts and 4' deep channel from front door and they never once closed the school!

Barstewards.

 

[Amanda P]

Our village school was closed today. There was about two inches of snow, and it's been raining, snowing, sleeting and precipitating a sort of sludgy slush (sometimes all of these at the same time) all morning.

Didn't stop me ridingto work, though!

 

[Arch]

We've had sleet first thing but it's turned to rain now. One of my colleagues is snowed in in Wetherby though so it must be worse further west.

Snow here, now rapidly turning to slush in the rain. My friend came in from Seaton Ross, just a bit to the east of York, and said they'd hardly had any, so yes, it seems the further west got it - someone else was in from Bradford and said it was quite heavy.

Why do they close schools BTW? I remember just a couple of times it happened when I was at secondary school, and once at college.

Pathetic bloody country, half an inch of snow and no one knows how to drive any more.

 

[Amanda P]

Just seen this chap from my office window.

 

[Arch]

Ow! Cold feet!

 

[Fnaar]

raining now....

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Same here

 

[HelenD123]

I think our rain has headed your way. It's now dried up and looking like it could be a nice evening.

 

[Arch]

Dark here, so I can't see what the weather is like just now. I'll find out in a while when I go out to go home...

 

[col]

Snow ing well here all morning,stopped about dinner time and is still here,getting colder now so it might freeze tonight,must be a couple of inches on the floor.

 

[Headgardener]

No snow here I'm disapointed. When I was a lad living in Worcestershire they never closed the schools if it snowed, in fact it made for a more fun day making slides and snowmen. Is it because the teachers of today are to scared of driving in the snow and can't/won't go in. Also the buses didn't stop running unles it was realy deep.
The one school I was at we had a coke stove in the classrrom and we used to have to thaw out the milk on it . Anyway tis raining here now and I have to go out in it tonight so I'm not looking forward to it, I must be getting old.

 

[Night Train]

Only half my students came in to college today. I made it from Manchester to Burnley despite the promise of 8" of snow. I was determined to be there whatever the weather so planned for the worse. I ended up sat at college at 7.45am with the cleaners wondering if anyone else would turn up!