Snow!

[blobrana]

@PMC
Hum,
i  managed to fit both tyres inside the  (standard sized) rims, but you got to watch that it doesn't pop out when blowing it up....

If you first fit the tyres together - then fit  the two `beads` (from one side) of both tyres into the rim - then prise the other two in , it fits quite snugly...

But you got to hurry - the snows melting...

[Bezzen]

@Star69

I've never actually tried snowboarding. Used to do a lot of slalom skiing (only as a hobby, no cometitions or such) when I was younger but I haven't been at the slopes for at least ten years. Now I live pretty close to what seems to be a pretty decent mountain (Hovfjället)
so I think I'll give it a try again. I will probably break a couple of legs though.  :-o

It was -15 degrees this morning, so I think the snow is here to stay for a while.  :-)

[The_Editor]

Last bad snow uk had was 1985.

I had just past my truck test and was going to work at 03:00 one morning......

Our depot was 12 miles away in the middle of nowhere.

I was driving my worked 3.1 Capri very carefully in thick virgin snow.  I came to the steep hill just aways from our depot and thought .. " I'd better not touch the brakes ..just ease it into 2nd gear ..gently !!

As I let the clutch out the arse promptly came swinging round (at the top of the hill).

Power steering enabled me to .. Get it back, but it came back at twice the speed.

Once again I corrected ... BUT..  This time it came back with such force ( I was halfway down the hill now) that it was impossible to collect it.

I let go of the whell and 360'd virtually all the way down.

Just before the bottom the vehicle slid into a DEEP snow filled ditch (twisting the chassis) .. Drivers side deep into the ditch,  facing uphill.

And so I sat there at 03:15 in this ditch... I decided that this probably was a good "Hamlet" moment and so sparked a smoke.   At that moment the passenger window got wiped away..  A voice yelled.. "I'll get yer out mate" and the passenger door was opened.. sending a tidel wave of snow cascading all over me !!

Brr.

When I walked into the yard... We couldn't get our wagons out for three days anyway !!

 Crunched Capri

What a waste.

[X-ray]

We had snow once in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was in 1981 and I was at school. It was such a momentous occasion that we were immediately let out of school and allowed to go to the park and make snowmen and have snowfights. It was a good amount of snow, not just a sprinkling.

But as for cold: it can get bloody cold for a country that has such good weather. When I was there in winter 2002 it was -2 C with the wind chill. And it is a biting dry cold, an unfriendly cold....

[bjjones37]

We are used to two kinds of weather in Texas - hot, and dry.  It is usually either hot or dry or both, actually just about always both.

Don't have any snow stories (wish I did) but we do have some freezes in Texas - if only people could learn to drive in them.  Anyway we lived in Port Lavaca at the time.  We were driving home when we saw some lights revolving in the distance. Looked almost like from a police car except they were white.  When we got there we saw a pickup truck spinning like a top on a bridge.  Apparently some lady was driving her pickup across the bridge and felt it slip just a little bit.   You guessed it, she slammed on the brakes.  Eventually the truck stopped spinning.  My dad spoke to her briefly just to reassure her and she drove safely off.  The moral of the story is: No matter how good you are at driving in snow, if it snows, freezes, rains, gets a little cloudy, wind is blowing, etc. Beware of Texas drivers! :-)

[PMC]

@X-ray

The Cape gets quite cold IIRC, I remember cycling to school in Mowbray one May morning feeling surprisingly cold.  

Our school uniform consisted of a green blazer, green and yellow tie, white shirt, khaki shorts and khaki long socks...

Brr!

[Dan]

It snowed all morning, now it turned to nasty cold rain and its going to freeze tonight.  :madashell:

[whabang]

Dan wrote:
It snowed all morning, now it turned to nasty cold rain and its going to freeze tonight.  :madashell:

Ice skating! WOOOHOOO! :-D

[Cyberus]

[Dan]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Aaaaaarggggh!
@£?$£$?{"#¤%#%¤/%& bleep bleeep!
 :lol:

[Star69]

@ Bezzen

It's alot easier than you'd think... only i'd strongly recommend taking a hip flask with you... for medicinal reasons, of course... :-D

The puny 1cm of snow here melted the next day though  :-(