Gritters?

In common with many places there was snow yesterday evening hereabouts.

This was followed by a partial thaw, followed by sub zero temperatures
through the night.

As you can imagine this has turned my road into an ice rink. But there's
been no sign whatsoever of the gritters. I for one am not putting any number
of wheels on that sodding road until it's all melted and gone away. I pity
the poor buggers who have no choice.

So what was all that hype about extra gritters being "ready for the big
freeze"?

What's the situation in your area?

 

Exactly the same as you mate, although I live on a hill which hasn't been
gritted. There's no way in hell that I'm setting off until there's some
traction available. I can't even walk to the end of my drive (which is also
on said hill, suprisingly).

 

I will be conducting plug chop tests today.

Utilising Devils Dyke or Ditchling Beacon as my test site. I haven't
decided yet.

 

There seem to be some roads around with buckets of grit and others with
none. Job well done.

 

Likewise and ditto.
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It's all about as believable as a Lord Hutton report inuit!

 

Residential road - nothing - just ice and snow.
Other roads - nothing - but melted slightly from the cars here and there.

Pavements - ice.

 

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:17:37 -0000, "Zobo Kolonie"
<> bored us all completely to death with
wittery prose along the lines of:

Snow all over the place up in the sticks. Roads where a bit shitty,
but at least the gritters where out early, as they fucked up big time
last year. Dunno about Paris itself though. Still came in by bike and
the road to the work garage was, er, eventful.

 

I've just driven part of that route, and OK, so it's now gone 9am.
Lane 3 is a bit slushier than the rest, but ice? Certainly not
anymore.

 

Three residential roads from flat to 'main road', icy slush.
Other main roads, mainly wet with patches of slush.
A1 & M25, wet but fine, with a bit of slush in lane 3.

I had a better drive in to work this morning than I did
yesterday. I suppose a lot of people have used the snow as
an excuse not to go to work.

 

Loadsa snow - main roads have been cleared but some of the smaller
ones had a fair amount of wind-blown accumulation this morning. Fun,
it was.

 

I will be having a pork chop further down the road in Hailsham...

Steve
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The highways agency have said they have the "wrong type of salt"

Apparently, it does not work below -5c and therefore is not worth
using.

I assume that grit and salt are a single "mix"

 

That sounds like it should be some sort of euphemism.

 

Heh, that reminds me. I was on the TGV going to a customer in Rennes
yesterday and the train was pootling along at 200kph+, when this god
awful banging, thumping, crumping type noise started to happen. This
went on for a good couple of minutes. After it stopped, the train
driver got on the blower and said, "Don't worry, that was only blocks
of ice dropping off". I was impressed, as we hadn't slowed down a tad.

The UK and the "wrong kind of snow" excuses did make me think...

 

Yes, we love living here.

 

Yeah, England rocks, dunnit?

 

Fine...
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