Random musings and general banter.

[Battiola73]

Shouldn't that be lowest temps, -17 and highest 5? Unless that's the time. And even then, it doesn't make sense.

Has he used the wind speed instead of the minimum temperature?

 

[Battiola73]

FFS Peter. Winter is on its way, like it is every year, no need for the scare tactics. I'm old enough to remember the winter of 1962, I was a young schoolgirl. We had no central heating, but we managed. We still went about our daily business, buses ran, milk and post were delivered. We don't get winter's like that now, thank goodness.

Remember it well. Got two weeks off school because the outside toilets froze. Can’t remember how we all got notified when we could go back as very few had phones. Probably by letter. Still had to use the outside loos but they’d set up paraffin heaters to thaw them out.

 

[Battiola73]

Stock up on food just in case. It doesn't take much for everything to stop when we have snow!

I know it sounds daft especially as we rarely get snow down here in the south, but I always stock up in November. I’m disabled and always make sure I’ve enough tinned, dried, and packet food to last a month, plus the freezer is full.

 

[Hammy60]

Jessie now the Trenton expert.

Asks us to check the prices on the American web site.


Hey Jessie, it may have prices in Dollars (illusion tactic) but it ain't an American web site. It's run from London, the web site is run under the Jurisdiction of the English Courts, and privacy is governed by the UK Data Protection Act. American my arse.

Just for you Jessie so in future you know the brand/web sites present lineage:-

Web site → Trenton watch Brand → Ingersoll 1882 Brand → Zeon Ltd (London) → Heralds Holdings Ltd (Hong Kong)

 

[Hammy60]

Jessie also the watch Expert for Tsovet watches.

Jessie kindly pointed out that if you do go diving that this is the pressure release valve (Helium release valve), cause if you go 200 mtrs under water this proves it's the real deal (he loves calling things "The Real Deal").

Great work Jessie, only it isn't a pressure release valve. Because it's a kinetic movement (PX85) with a battery (used to be a capacitor when it was the 5m85 in Seiko watches) it's the pusher for the power storage indicator function, it has sod all to do with helium or pressure release.

 

[Hammy60]

Well hopefully everyone survived the overnight Arctic conditions, hopefully Pedro was supplied with extra ceramic heaters and fleece throws to keep him warm in his igloo hotel room. Thankfully heeded Pedro's adverse weather warning and was suitably prepared (fully stocked freezer, torches, batteries, throws, water bottles oh and made sure house was insured) for the -40c temps with blizzard conditions and the possibility of 10 ft snow drifts.

In the real world, just a usual late November night, a wee bit chilly with a very, very, super, super, phenomenally, phenomenally light dusting of snow.

 

[Muttley]

I know it sounds daft especially as we rarely get snow down here in the south, but I always stock up in November. I’m disabled and always make sure I’ve enough tinned, dried, and packet food to last a month, plus the freezer is full.

I stock up because bad weather can cause chaos in London and sometimes for safety reasons transport grinds to a halt. I don't mind snow, but when it freezes I'm worried I could fall which could cause problems with my joints so I avoid going out. I have flexibility at work and can work from home 3 days a week and more if there's bad weather or train strikes. And since Covid I've always stocked up a bit just in case (and not just on bog roll).

 

[Hammy60]

I stock up because bad weather can cause chaos in London and sometimes for safety reasons transport grinds to a halt. I don't mind snow, but when it freezes I'm worried I could fall which could cause problems with my joints so I avoid going out. I have flexibility at work and can work from home 3 days a week and more if there's bad weather or train strikes. And since Covid I've always stocked up a bit just in case (and not just on bog roll).

Yeah pavements are okay when snow first falls, good grip, but after it's compacted and starts turning to ice it's a nightmare to walk on, especially if the council haven't treated them, although thankfully our council has gotten better at that after some bad winters where they concentrated on the roads to keep them open and neglected the pavements which led to a really high number of falls/accidents, they got a lot of stick from the public, press and NHS which was struggling with the extra numbers at A & E and have since done a better job with the pavements.
I remember back in 2010, when we had a really cold December, had a few days heavy snow then about a week of light snow, but with a couple of weeks of sub zero temps, was down to -15 a few nights, untreated pavements, the snow didn't shift and just compacted and ended up like 2 inch thick sheet of ice on every pavement for a couple of weeks, so thick it took ages too thaw, everybody had to walk on the roads because a lot of the pavements outwith the city center were impossible to walk on.

 

[Jazzydrury]

I’m surprised they haven’t stocked those grip things to go on Shoes, Not that it bothers me, as I always use my wheelchair when out, as when I do walk I’m very unsteady. But then there is another issue. Wheelchairs and Snow and Hard Frost don’t like each other . So tend to stay indoors.

The Special School I went to towards the end of my schooling. Was scheduled to Slowly close, as it was a special school. They allowed anybody who was a pupil, to see out there schooling first. The year after I left, it had just one year left, But as no money was being spent, Come winter it always had frozen pipes.

Winters aren’t so bad now, here in Bristol, Think we had lying snow for about a hour last year, My dad used to be a grave digger, he said he remember years when they had to set small fires, to the ground to dig it

 

[Jazzydrury]

We live in a Small Village, In bad weather we are forgotten about, Don’t think Ive ever seen a gritter

 

[Muttley]

Yeah pavements are okay when snow first falls, good grip, but after it's compacted and starts turning to ice it's a nightmare to walk on, especially if the council haven't treated them, although thankfully our council has gotten better at that after some bad winters where they concentrated on the roads to keep them open and neglected the pavements which led to a really high number of falls/accidents, they got a lot of stick from the public, press and NHS which was struggling with the extra numbers at A & E and have since done a better job with the pavements.
I remember back in 2010, when we had a really cold December, had a few days heavy snow then about a week of light snow, but with a couple of weeks of sub zero temps, was down to -15 a few nights, untreated pavements, the snow didn't shift and just compacted and ended up like 2 inch thick sheet of ice on every pavement for a couple of weeks, so thick it took ages too thaw, everybody had to walk on the roads because a lot of the pavements outwith the city center were impossible to walk on.

The pavements round my way never get treated. Railway platforms are always done which tells me when its going to be bad. Maybe I should get a stick to give me confidence in bad weather, any idea where I can get one