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extreme-4x4
29-12-2009, 17:36
waiting to go back to wales tonight for work and lou's birthday but .
2 problems .
1 really hot woman in eastbourne
and heavy snow forecast for central england and wales
so any updates would be helpful to decide if i should leave tonight
please give as much info as possible
thanks in advance
well colin, there's only one answer mate, stay in the warm. :lol:lol im a beginning to worry about you. :naughty:augie
makeitfit
29-12-2009, 17:51
waiting to go back to wales tonight for work and lou's birthday but .
2 problems .
1 really hot woman in eastbourne
and my knob is so hurty:doh
1 Have a cold shower:surrender
2 Carefully rub in some deep heat :lol
jims-terrano
02-01-2010, 20:57
We got snowing coming down and turning everywhere white:thumb2 better still severe weather warning for Tuesday and Wednesday too:thumbs
Jim T
The Patrolman
05-01-2010, 00:51
If it sounds like fun go for it....But go prepared.. you never know what you will have to pull out!!!! ( usually a landrover or sommet!! )
But seriousley we went out a 12 noon saturday with kid and dogs for a walk in the woods got caught in blizzards by 3:30 we were in the pub with 2 rescued people having pulled out a police landy with 5 other rescuees in it, and waited till 6:30pm til the rescued snow plough cleared the way down.
This it troll in car park after an hour. It is still iced up to day!!!
Take care
jims-terrano
05-01-2010, 01:07
Now tell me just why do we have 4x4's:lol
Is that an amber beacon on top with a lucky shot of it flashing or just a street lamp in the right place.
Jim T
PS still waiting for more snow but we now have full warnings of it from Met Office:thumbs
Jim T
The Patrolman
05-01-2010, 01:25
Street lamp!! Street lamp The nearest street lamp is about 5miles to the east and a dose of ear popping down!! Through 8 - 15 foot drifts that the ploughs didn't clear till sunday afternoon. That was ths Pub Sign in the background..!
This is a pic my wife took as we had just pulled the over enthusiastic copper out of the drift.. she turned the flash of so as not to annoy him.
I asked if he had a rope to pull him out with but he said no, This I thought a bit od but later found out that their patrol car could not get onto the moor top so they went to the local Landrover dealer and comandeered one. ( I'll have that one please!! ) and by ek he gave it some beans!!:clap
Well done to the two bobby's who put them selves at risk for Joe public above and beyoned the call of duty!!!!!!:clap
The Patrolman
05-01-2010, 01:30
18:40
Ploughs Finally arrived and all went down in convoy, The long way round but we all got home safe and sound!!!!!:clap:bow
The Patrolman
05-01-2010, 01:31
Doh!!:doh18:40
Ploughs Finally arrived and all went down in convoy, The long way round but we all got home safe and sound!!!!!:clap:bow
got up this morn to find school closed, busses off taxi's wont come out gritters not been round. we had 4 inch of snow since midnight and now the sky has packed in :nenau
we have one or 2 flakes and thats about it :-(
Kids are gutted.
Cheshire snow....snow....snow
Schools shut...I'm on ferry service taking my daughters to work and back.
Some kids have just built a snowman in the middle of the road[did look funny..but dangerous] I was going out to move but a vehicle did it for me, I bet it cracked something. :doh
Thomas-the-Terrano2
05-01-2010, 11:00
south yorks got about 4 inches and still throwing it down.
currently first buses in sheffield pulled out of service and
tram routes affected by stuck cars!
believe councils ploughing rather than gritting.
now trying to decide if try to drive to work or play the buses
off card...afterall excess is much higher than loss of days pay.
Last lot got us heavey in time for Crimble
Only a light dusting here. Just enough to look clean.
But loads of random ice rinks and more snow on the way
dsgrnmcm
05-01-2010, 11:09
apparently this is the 2nd time since 1981 that it has snowed in bideford!
http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu120/dsgrnmcm/IMAG0054.jpg
And its just started again, but the MRS drove in to work (exeter) this morning about 0520 and said once she was out of bideford and down the M5 it was fine?
go on col thats what a 4x4 is for!
We have snow in somerset.:clap
dsgrnmcm
05-01-2010, 13:49
it has rained a little so we now have mush, I know it is irresponsible, but i couldent help giving it some beans in 2nd and sliding round ASDA'a empty car park while getting some stuff, although north devon seems to of sold out of milk for some reason?
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y19/DarwinTania/IMG00013.jpg
jims-terrano
05-01-2010, 14:32
We have plenty up here too. It was a hard drive to work steering around all those peasents in their 2wd cars:lol:lol:lol
Jim T
I'm luving it:thumbs
iansjones
05-01-2010, 14:50
We have just had 1-2 inches in about a hour and still coming down hard.
It's still coming down....all buses off, expecting very heavy frost overnight.....:surrender
No snow in essex/ greater london at the moment, but it is forcast.
But i did see a brass monkey crying and shouting out, is there a welder in the house!!!!:D :D :D
paulp
pretty poor where I am , about 8 inches today I think, so my garden, drive and street are screwed again, cant get my car out!
lacroupade
05-01-2010, 21:22
Three inches and rising. Its great. The biggest my knobs ever been. :lol:lol:lol
And its snowing like buggery.....just been to sainsburys to practice me four wheel drifting :augie
This morning we woke to our fourth snowfall, our road, pavements and drive have been almost imposible since well before xmas. Our wheelie bins havent been emptied for over a month, no grit as been laid so I suppose the bin men cant get around. The terrano in 4x4
worked very well in the deep snow and thick ice, but in 2x it is useless, wheels spinning fish tailing and going nowhere. On the drive, one wheel on ice other on cleared tarmac the wheel on ice just spun the other did nothing. I would have thought the lsd would have helped but it didn't. The lsd oil was changed six months ago. The good thing about this snow, no wind, it's been very calm otherwise there would have been severe drifts . regards bri
Have travelled around Hawes and outlying Dales lanes today(sadly at work). Deep snow and drifts which apart from the steepest hills have been mostly in 2xwheel drive.The lsd seems to work well when the auto is in snow mode i.e. no 1st gear engaged. When forced to use 4x4h she was as good as all the L.R.'s i have driven in the past. Pirrelli Scorpions seem to be well up to the job as well. Shame I did not have a camera as the views were spectacular.
lacroupade
06-01-2010, 00:34
This was the view earlier this evening while practising a bit of 4WD powersliding in the car park in town:augie......currently theres 5 inches sitting on top of the beemer (whch hasn't moved for almost a month!) and its still throwing it down.
Met Office is predicting anywhere from 10-16 inches right across my patch so no work tomorrow!!! yippee!
Hi a good couple of inches of snow in about an hour in Dagenham
paulp
GoodOldBakes
06-01-2010, 00:58
Snow glorious snow in sun....er..snowy Sheffield today. Took an hour to travel 2 miles this morning in nose to tail traffic, so turned around and came back home. Took the hound out for a lovely walk in the hills then took the missus on a couple of her jobs. Beats stuck in an office all day. :thumbs
harlowmaverick
06-01-2010, 02:03
loads of snow!
I was about to say none overnight here but just looked out and it's snowing again.
Its only light at the mo but we shall see
extreme-4x4
06-01-2010, 10:03
eastborne is snowing started bout 8 am and its settling . hour later we have 1cm but still coming down
4x4onarret
06-01-2010, 10:14
Stroud in Gloucestershire, we have approx 5-6" of snow, more on top of the cotswold hills and its still snowing :clap as of 9:15am Weds 06th Jan 2010.
Steve.
lacroupade
06-01-2010, 10:29
8" in Oxfordshire and still falling....yes!!!:thumb2:thumb2
jims-terrano
06-01-2010, 11:11
We had a light dusting over night on top of yesterdays snow. It's a hard life I'm having to work from home:) laptop on and logged on via VPN. Trouble kids have gone out with my sledge (from when I was a kid) and I can't go:confused:
Jim T
Snowed all morning here but now the sun has come out and it's clear blue skies, have cleared the snow from the drive and we are off for a walk on the hill. regards bri
zippy656
06-01-2010, 14:04
only 3" to 4" in wiltshire but still snowing
great fun on the roads though...
4" overnight here (and yes, I was out playing in it all night in the Mav!), snowing steadily most of the day, and now it's really coming down quite heavily - they're predicting we're gonna be about the worst hit area tonight with between 12" & 18":)
MudLifeCrisis
06-01-2010, 15:40
8 to 9 inches here and still snowing heavy with the forecast showing another 4 days ;O)
ClanWolf
06-01-2010, 22:12
Had about 3 inches down my way, which of course means it IS the end of the world... Sigh.
Just helped a mate out by doing the three mile round trip to collect his missus from work. Something about his V8 Mustang being a tad too sideways all the time to actually get anywhere. :D
lacroupade
06-01-2010, 22:35
Had about 3 inches down my way, which of course means it IS the end of the world... Sigh.
Just helped a mate out by doing the three mile round trip to collect his missus from work. Something about his V8 Mustang being a tad too sideways all the time to actually get anywhere. :D
I'll swap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbs:thumbs:thum bs
ClanWolf
06-01-2010, 23:22
Joking aside, it will be for sale within a month. Three grand. P/X reasonable Terrano 2 (LWB, petrol or diesel) and around a grand. Kinda sold him on the big T2.
lacroupade
07-01-2010, 01:26
I'd bite his hand off if I had three grand.....Frank Bullit me :augie
lacroupade
07-01-2010, 10:36
Well it went down to -17C at the local weather station at RAF Benson last night, and its currently sitting at -12C. Guess who isn't getting out of bed today. :thumb2
Well it went down to -17C at the local weather station at RAF Benson last night, and its currently sitting at -12C. Guess who isn't getting out of bed today. :thumb2
There used to be a scrapy at Benson that had hundreds of old trucks and loadsa interesting things like engines outa ol' diesel trains etc.
Is it still there?
I'd bite his hand off if I had three grand.....Frank Bullit me :augie
Did you know that the mustang in the film bullit was actually a V6 and the sound was dubbed in later.
lacroupade
07-01-2010, 12:17
There used to be a scrapy at Benson that had hundreds of old trucks and loadsa interesting things like engines outa ol' diesel trains etc.
Is it still there?
If I'm not mistaken, its sadly become a massive council recyling plant....lots of metals still but all the usual rubbish. I scavenged a few bits there in my youth, also at Bert Haines in Wantage if you know that place - even that is now selling new furniture and kitchens alongside so-called architectural salvage (strictly down-market stuff you understand! LOL).
What happened to the days when you could keep your car running on a shoestring? So much for green living....:doh
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