Done to death snow post...anyone else not actually bothered?

We've got about a centimetre of slush, I preferred the proper snow and quite liked the quieter roads for riding but I feel so sorry for people around the country who are really struggling with drifts and floods, I have experienced floods when I lived in Sheffield and it was just awful :-(
 
We've had masses of snow at my place, its very localised though it seems as 15 miles away has nothing. Its been blizzarding for the past 2 days and I mean a blizzard as we are used to snow up here!

What bugs me is that on TV, Scotland rarely gets any mention because uh oh... England has a little bit and that's ALL we hear about!
 
With that amount of snow i wouldn't be bothered. Im actually more amazed than anything by it. Yep inconvenient but we have a 4x4 and have got to everywhere we needed to albeit very slowly. We have about a foot on the ground and snow drifts over major roads that are anything from 6ft to about 15ft. Impassable in many places even in a 4 wheel drive.
The fields have snow as high as hedges and gale force winds for past 48hours, not a lot of fun but quite enjoyed it. However it best be gone by Monday as work calls and at present i can't get through!
As we don't usually get this kind of snow in staffordshire its not like they have the same machinery or experienced drivers as Scotland to get rid of these massive drifts!
Its the fact its a New experience to me that i have posted about it, in my 23 years iv never been old enough to take it in when experiencing this kind of snow.
 
Kat said:
Here in derbyshire the mountain rescue are being called out to rescue peopke stranded in their cars on major A roads. We have massive snow drifts and the snow is still falling. We have managed as usual but only because we have a 4x4, my car hasn't moved since Thursday even with the 4x4 we have struggled to get to the stables. Those with cars have had to walk in. They gave taken over an hour each way despite being well prepared. Our taps are frozen and snow is coming into the stables. So yes it is a bit irritating this snow...........
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I've just been reading about that. It's mental. They're saying the drifts are 15-20ft in places!

No snow here, just standing water everywhere. The wind is brutal. I'll be really glad when this passes!
 
Agree, not much snow there.

Were farmers and very grumpy ones at that. Its the middle of lambing, its snowing, it needed to be 6degrees two weeks ago for a month to start drilling. Were behind. The fields are shot, im not bothered about the grazing anymore but the hay. I would love the snow if I only had the horses to do in it, but for us our livelihoods depend on the weather.
 
I spent the afternoon digging a trench because my fields are covered in several inches of surface water/slush. It's still windy, still snowing and i have 3 sad little faces looking hopefully over their doors. I cant see i'll be able to turn out at all this week if it doesnt drain properly. Yes im bothered.
 
Yes i mind! we've got between 8 and 15ft snow drifts that spread across the road so we are therefore physically snowed in.
We've sheep that we dont know if their still alive as the snowdrifts are higher than the walls on all sides, making it impossible to get in.
It's getting into the barns through every gap it can find, meaning it's covered in 2 ft of snow inside...
To top it off we only have less than 16% gas to last 2 weeks...

You are welcome to have some..

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Kat said:
Here in derbyshire the mountain rescue are being called out to rescue peopke stranded in their cars on major A roads. We have massive snow drifts and the snow is still falling. We have managed as usual but only because we have a 4x4, my car hasn't moved since Thursday even with the 4x4 we have struggled to get to the stables. Those with cars have had to walk in. They gave taken over an hour each way despite being well prepared. Our taps are frozen and snow is coming into the stables. So yes it is a bit irritating this snow...........
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It's not fun is it :( All my clients cancelled on Friday, car's not been off the drive, huuuge snow drifts everywhere, and the wind keeps knocking my bin over :o

Part loan ponio is 12 miles away on t'other side of Buxton, so I have no hope of getting to him in this... even if the roads were open!
 
Holly_H. said:
Yes i mind! we've got between 8 and 15ft snow drifts that spread across the road so we are therefore physically snowed in.
We've sheep that we dont know if their still alive as the snowdrifts are higher than the walls on all sides, making it impossible to get in.
It's getting into the barns through every gap it can find, meaning it's covered in 2 ft of snow inside...
To top it off we only have less than 16% gas to last 2 weeks...

You are welcome to have some..

Sorry for the picture size
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God that's awful I hope the sheep are managing ok!

It's pretty ridiculous how you get pictures of London and surrounding areas with an inch of snow on the news, and the rest of the country is meant to be all like 'No, not the Londoners! Anyone but them!'
 
the snow is bad enough but I'm more stressed thinking of the state of the already wrecked fields when it all starts to melt creating more flipping water
 
I have given up caring. From here on in, I will not moan about the weather.........promise ;-)
Seriously though, i'm starting to wonder how long our ancestors moaned for before realising that whatever 'age' the world was breaking into (ice age etc) was here for the long haul and they better just get used to it. :-)
 
Oh dear tankgirl, Buxton is pretty much totally cut off by the sound of things. Every major route out was shut yesterday. It is a horrible place for snow, my sister lived there for a short time and would get cut off by snow when we hadn't seen a single flake.
 
Our horses are confined to their stables, we can't get off the hill, even though we have 4 x4's, we have had to dig out the house door to get out and the stable door to get in. We managed to get the hose pipe nearly to the building door last night, so only had to carry buckets a shortish way. To get to the stables we are having to climb over the rockery, just about managing to hold on to the field fence top. This is a picture of our yard yesterday morning, and it got worse as the wind carried on!
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The JCB which came to clear the road, so we could get cars out of the hamlet, got a call to go and rescue a gritter/plough this morning, so we are still stuck.
 
I dont have a lot of snow but this area of Southern Scotland like Cumbria it has blown off the fields into the lanes into huge drifts
Many people are snowed in
The news of people in Ireland and places like Arran with no electric for days--the cows cannot be milked--imagine the welfare problem there!
How many horses are starving/no water because people cant get to them?

The wind has never died down and I count myself fortunate to still have electricity
The horses had 2 duvet days, then I salted the icy yard and got them out yesterday and today.
 
I am so sorry for all of you snowed in or waterlogged, it has been a hard winter for all owners of livestock, even here in France. How do you get ready for the competition season?

I am pleased to say that finally we have some sun and dry weather another three days dry, so hopefully harrow poached gateways. First lot went out last night and we hope to have everyone out by next weekend. Praise the Lord!!
 
Yeah i am worried. Just watching the news and the poor farmers whose livestock are in the fields with huge snowdrifts and are unable to get to them. The waterlogged fields, arable and livestock. my ponies who are all veterans and my friends whose is 33. Owners who are struggling with the feed bills, horses stuck in stables for weeks on end, the hay situation for this coming year. My husband leaving home at one in the morning to go to work and then having to drive his lorry in bad conditions .My list goes on and on. And I'm a optamistic person:)
 
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