So Who's Got Snow?
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Had a mildly interesting drive to work today.
Perhaps foolishly I took the hilly B-road rather than the more circuitous A-road. It had been cleared, but drifts were blowing off the fields in places.
It was all going fine until I crested the brow of a hill and encountered a big drift covering the whole road, which was still blowing off the field creating complete white-out conditions. I couldn't see a thing. A tap of the brakes told me that I had none, the wheels just instantly locked. So I took my foot off the brake, downshifted and tried my best to keep the car on where I thought the road was. After a few feet the white-out cleared and I could see where I was going again.
Had another car been coming I would have crashed.
My heart was pounding a bit after that.
In retrospect if I had been in 2nd rather than 3rd when I hit the white-out there wouldn't have been such a problem. The drift and white-out section was hard to see much in advance due to the topography, but the real problem was I didn't anticipate the total loss of visibility inside it.
Perhaps foolishly I took the hilly B-road rather than the more circuitous A-road. It had been cleared, but drifts were blowing off the fields in places.
It was all going fine until I crested the brow of a hill and encountered a big drift covering the whole road, which was still blowing off the field creating complete white-out conditions. I couldn't see a thing. A tap of the brakes told me that I had none, the wheels just instantly locked. So I took my foot off the brake, downshifted and tried my best to keep the car on where I thought the road was. After a few feet the white-out cleared and I could see where I was going again.
Had another car been coming I would have crashed.
My heart was pounding a bit after that.
In retrospect if I had been in 2nd rather than 3rd when I hit the white-out there wouldn't have been such a problem. The drift and white-out section was hard to see much in advance due to the topography, but the real problem was I didn't anticipate the total loss of visibility inside it.
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should have stopped (if you could that is) n took a photo!
Would have been like this I reckon
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Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
not had much down here but have been out in me five fingers throwing snowballs for the dog
view from the bow/workshop
view from the bow/workshop
not had much down here but have been out in me five fingers throwing snowballs for the dog
Them the chinky ones that were bought last spring?
not had much down here but have been out in me five fingers throwing snowballs for the dog
view from the bow/workshop
You're a braver man than me Gunga Din. Mine are hibernating.
Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
aye they are the cheap chinese ones. and maybe not that brave, the amount of time i have spent bedbound has left me with bad circulation and i have little sensitivty left in my feet so can barely feel the cold anyway! not curled up by the fire in cosy slippers though!
Dreadhead
Bushcrafter through and through
You fiend making me miss the homeland indeed where abouts in Aberdeenshire is that? used to stay near bucksburn and lived in inverurie years back
Just a wee dusting of snow here ....
Overnight we had four more inches of snow onto what was already there, and there's 4 inches more forecast in the next 24 hours. And I don't have to be in work tomorrow! 
Over a foot now, just outside Alford.
I left it running, just in case.
My edc has a bottle opener and a corkscrew. Nothing says trustworthy like a drunk man wielding a knife.
I left it running, just in case.
My edc has a bottle opener and a corkscrew. Nothing says trustworthy like a drunk man wielding a knife.
Lovely 
We've got glorious Sunshine ! !
Really, we've actually got Sunshine. I'm away for a walk
M
We've got glorious Sunshine ! !
Really, we've actually got Sunshine. I'm away for a walk
M
