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08/03/2010, 17:02 gardengirl Joined on 30/09/2007 SE UK/Gard Posts 1,246 Re: Snow Again! I like the sound of the JCB Gardian; when we had 30cm in UK earlier in the year we were just left to it. Hundreds of people broke legs etc, mainly because no minor roads were cleared, and paths were cleared at the whim of householders. Just our luck to have missed it down there again! I was there for the small amount in January last year, and have been sent videos by friends of the deeper snow earlier this year, but I guess it'll be gone by the time we fly out next week. Hope you've all got good stocks of fuel of all sorts laid up ready! ;o) Good friends are like stars ...... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there.    Report

08/03/2010, 21:22 Gardian Joined on 15/02/2006 Gard Posts 2,003 Re: Snow Again! J-L came round sometime mid-morning, but since our plonker of a neighbour had left his car in the narrow lane, he couldn't get the JCB right up to our house. Not a problem though, because its pretty level at this end. The snow has been melting quite well all day and I've just confined myself to brushing the heavy wet snow off of the shrubs & olive tree. Just about finished with cut wood, but plenty more dry stuff to cut to .25cm lengths, which suits our hearth. I'll need the boys round soon to cut & trim a few trees before long, so that the logs can dry out over the Summer. The snow will be all gone in a day or so.    Report

09/03/2010, 9:03 Judith Joined on 01/02/2006 Posts 879 Re: Snow Again!  Gardian wrote: The snow has been melting quite well all day ......   The snow will be all gone in a day or so. Well I  hope so, though  here it only stopped snowing about 5pm last night (we have about 4-6 in) and froze overnight.  Where the sun is getting onto it, it might be thawing very slowly, but it is forecast not to get much above freezing today, and our car is parked in the placette which gets no sun ....  and I have to go out tomorrow.   Fortunately, we did clear the car of snow before it froze last night, unlike our neighbours who were scraping hard this morning, to very little avail ....  their car is still there, covered in snow and ice. Judith ex W1, 47, 11 and now [just about] in the Herault, where I hope we'll stay!!    Report

09/03/2010, 9:58 Chancer Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 4,706 Re: Snow Again! Still no snow here, its bloomin cold but dry as a bone, not even frost on car windscreens, the sun is beating down and its really good waking weather    Report

09/03/2010, 10:52 Swissie Joined on 16/01/2010 Posts 815 Re: Snow Again! think you left out a consonant Chancer. Which one?    Report

09/03/2010, 11:09 Bugsy Joined on 15/11/2006 Vienne (86) The Nice Bit Posts 5,881 Re: Snow Again! I'm hoping it's 'g' Swissie. . "Growing Old is Inevitable - Growing up is Totally Optional"    Report

09/03/2010, 11:21 Quillan Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 6,132 Re: Snow Again! Thought I would share this bit of news with you all. Train stranded for 18 hours in snow March 09, 2010 More than a hundred passengers have spent the night stranded on a broken-down sleeper train in the Pyrénées-Orientales after it hit 40cm of snow near the Spanish border yesterday afternoon. The train, linking Barcelona to Paris, came to a halt in the border town of Cerbère at about 14.00 and is still stuck there 18 hours later, with 110 passengers on board. The train cannot be reached by emergency services because the roads are blocked. The local préfecture has requisitioned a local convenience store to supply passengers with food and drink and the SNCF has worked overnight to keep the train heated using an emergency generator after the area lost power yesterday evening. There are no trains running today between Narbonne and Perpignan because of yesterday's burst of heavy snow, which hit 10 departments in the south of France from the Pyrenees along the Languedoc coast to the Vaucluse. Some 600 lorries and hundreds of cars were stuck on the A9 motorway and local councils opened emergency shelters for stranded travellers. School is cancelled today in the Pyrénées-Orientales because of the icy roads. Today it is the turn of Corsica to get snow and winds of up to 110kph. Météo France has issued a weather warning for the island until 6.00 tomorrow morning.   http://www.chambresdhote.com    Report

09/03/2010, 12:23 velcorin Joined on 02/12/2008 Creuse and Paris Posts 348 Re: Snow Again! And my wife's working in BCN at the moment. Not been able to contact her.    Report

13/03/2010, 15:01 Chancer Joined on 16/07/2006 Picardie, Sussex Posts 4,706 Re: Snow Again!  Chancer wrote: Still no snow here, its bloomin cold but dry as a bone, not even frost on car windscreens, the sun is beating down and its really good waking weather Brilliant , I have only just read this. I have only just got over my little 10k walk, it was a brisk 2 degrees but the wind blowing over the plain cut right through me. In hindsight an "N" might have been the safer option    Report

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