The "worst snow in a decade" apparently.

Woe is my precious nervous system! *Note Sarcasm*

That name, again, is Mr Plow!

I was a baby in 1963, so I don't remember that winter, I know my Mum and me stayed with my grandparents, I think my parents sort of got stuck their after xmas or something.

I think snow is probably a lot more fun when you're a child and don't have to worry about the practicalities?

TheCatWoman said:

When I was a child I remember going to school in snow and ice

i remember doing that during the 1963 snow storms. I lived miles further away than other pupils who did not go in. I loved walking thigh deep in the snow through the cemetery - perhaps that was an early manifestation of autism as others were complaining!

Where I lived as a child we didn't get a lot of snow. If we did I think a lot of the teachers lived in our town so could walk. These days I think more live further away. Our secondary school was closed for a while once, but that was because the heating broke down.

When I was a child we got snow every winter, but now snow winters are rare. Everytime we get heavy snow or more than a couple of flakes people start panicking and asking why we don't have the sort of snow ploughs they do in other countries? I ask them if they be happy ofr thier council tax to be spent on these expensive machines, only to sit there for another 5 or 10 years unused?

Why are so many schools closed? When I was a child I remember going to school in snow and ice, as did my parents when classrooms were heated by coal and wood stoves.

Certain parts of the States get HEAVY snow (Midwest, where I live, included), but others go on complete shutdown when there is a flake of snow (ex. Georgia, Florida, etc). One interesting thing is that we often have snow plowers from our region volunteer to plow down south when they get any sort of significant snow.

We're just outside the weather warning areas, so it might be a bit wet and windy, but no snow apparently.

I was living in west Wales during the 81-82 snow, I remember we got snowed in twice, once before xmas and once after for about a fortnight each time. By January I was heavily pregnant and a few weeks away from my due date, all the men in the village got together and decided that if I went into labout then they'd get the bloke who saw to the ewes to come to me! This was despite us having a couple of women with midwifery experience in the village and if things went badly wrong an air ambulance could of come for me.

You are correct about Scotland. Even here it has now become panic mode when any snow is forecast or starts. I can remember camping in a campervan at the edge of a loch when the temperature was below minus 12 and you could here the ice cracking on the loch. It was blissful but as long as the heating was on.

I think you are in/from Scotland? 

You get real snow there.

I am a southern snowflake.

I actually love it but then I have never been inconvenienced for more than a few days.

It is very beautiful and I particularly love the silence after.

What is it about this country that has a fascination for snow. A few flakes and the place is in meltdown (excuse the pun). I remember snow used to last for weeks when I was young. People just got on with their lives. I think this country has become a snowflake nation! (pun intended)

In the far south of England the last properly heavy lasting snow I remember was in Eastbourne in the mid 80s.

1962/63 (the 'big freeze') in the UK was amazing.

The Thames froze.

www.silversurfers.com/.../

Lots of images on Google. 

In recent years I’ve found that the weather reports often overstate how bad the weather is really going to be. On several occasions we’ve cancelled our plans due to reports of upcoming bad weather and it’s turned out to be nowhere near as bad as they were predicting. Looking at the temperatures over the course of today and tomorrow I don’t think the snow will be that bad, and I think it will soon clear too. We’ll see! I love the snow as long as I don’t have to drive anywhere. I darent drive in the snow at all.