Posts Tagged ‘road’

It’s beginning to thaw

Friday, January 15th, 2010

At last it’s got a bit warmer. It was a few degrees above freezing this afternoon, and it’s started to thaw. For the first time in over two weeks, I can see a bit of the road I live on. The two ruts in the single track that cars have made in the snow have melted and I can see the road.

My car has been snowed into the drive for over a week. I hadn’t attempt to dig it out as I didn’t want to drive on the 4 inches of compacted snow that covered my road. There’s been a foot of snow in between the car and the road, so this morning when it was quite soft and beginning to thaw, I moved some of it by pushing it aside with my foot when I was wearing wellies. That worked quite well. I’ll have another look at in the morning and see if I can get it cleared so that I can get the car out of the drive.

Snowed in

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

The snow that fell a couple of days ago is still here, and more has fallen to add to it. I hadn’t been to work for a couple of days because they’d closed due to the weather, but today they opened again. As I live in a village 5 miles away from where I work, I was concerned about the state of the roads. So I went out to have a look.

Often my estate road can be very icy and slippery, but the main road can be clear because it’s been treated with grit and salt. When I went out, I had to wear wellies because there was about 10 inches of snow in some places and it would have gone over the top of my walking boots.

I trudged carefully through the snow enjoying the beauty of sun, snow and blue sky, and taking photos. When I got to the main road, it was covered in compacted snow and ice. I heard on the radio that the salt only worked to a temperature of about -7 and it was expected to be colder than that. I had driven home from work a couple of weeks before on a road like that and it was the scariest drive I’ve ever done. So I decided that I wouldn’t be going to work.

It was about midday when I reached the village shop, and thankfully they had some milk and bread left, as I’d completely run out and was missing my cup of tea.

This is what the main road through the village looked like….

It's been snowing