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It is going to be horrendous for you, do your street sunday when the snowing has finished then you will have 4 feet to shift LOL

I shall be out in the morning in shorts and teeshirt clearing the snow before the next delivery arrives LOL

It has been snowing from about 8:30pm tonight here in Newbottle , Sunderland. Outside is still -2oC

Yay....Newbottle, Sunderland DH4 It started snowing at 8:20pm and it has just continued to snow....small snow flakes, it is -2 oC outside. I think this weekend will be a big snow event for the NE

Still SNOWING !!!!!! -1.9oC

Newbottle, Sunderland Outside temperature -1.8oC and heavy snow is falling now from the snow streamer coming in off the North Sea!!!!!!!!!!!! Fabulous winter snow scene out of the window.

The problem is this country has gone barmy with stupid health and safety laws with ambulance chasing lawyers...the law courts need to put a stop to this culture of sue sue

[i always knew clearing Council pavements and roads would make you liable.......something i never do as I have too much area around my house to clear which takes long enough

I think 4 x 4's have been redeemed and shown to be great over the last couple of weeks. The government will take control of the remaining grit supplies whilst the cold is on and things will become difficult and this weekend could unfortunately be the down turn for the country until mild weather comes in. I shall be looking out for people in my community and helping however I can.

Hello, I am not sure I mentioned buying extra gritters at all, merely increase the stored amount of grit......towards the end of the winter you would bring the levels down but at the beginning of the winter you would bring the levels up to 30 to 40 days worth and not the 6 day storage fiasco we have unfolding now. I really didn't think this would turn into a Unix users forum rant from yourself. This is down to the science of delivery....if a Grit mine can only produce 30,000 tonnes of grit a week and we have 150 local authorities and alot of these authorities use 500 tonnes a day...then it isn't hard to see where the problem is....One of the issues can be the conveyor belt system can only do so much tonnage an hour.

The weather we are experiencing now is something we have seen before in previous years and indeed has been well documented. There are lessons to be learned from this: 1. The complacency that we will have mild, grey winters with a couple of brief days of snow during February and March every year has to stop 2. Allowing accountants to run the country using the averages formula for stock piles of grit and reserves of gas, oil and petrol reserves has to be reviewed 3. I have read that Local Authorities were only advised by governing bodies to only store six days worth of grit/salt , this has to be reviewed and maybe the average increased to 30 to 40 days stockpiled every year regardless 4. We need to review how people used to survive and get on with things back in 1946/1947, 1963, 1978/1979 and learn from that Overall I would say the people of Britain have adopted the Dunkirk spirit, people are actually helping each other and talking to each other and this skill has been hidden for years

In Sunderland the temperature went down to -5.8 oC and whilst it has been snowing it rose to -3.8oc....very fine yet heavy Graupel / hail snow coming down, which will just freeze lovely. More snow showers will probably continue through the night. Winter is far from done yet

Just spent 1 1/4 hours clearing the snow off the driveway at the front of my house.....5 inches of snow fell during the night. Whilst clearing the snow into big heaps the outside temperature never got above -1 oC I am just keeping the thick of the snow off the drive and path as we know what is coming from next Tuesday to Friday

Heavy Graupel Snow here now in Newbottle......... outside temperature is -1.2 and the shiney (take your feet from under you) ice is now covered in Graupel, like ball bearings on ice.....looks like we will be getting showers throughout the night. This is a gradually unravelling saga of many chapters !!!!!

Hello From Newbottle, Sunderland !!!! Heavy snow falling....the kind of snow you can easily make hugh snowballs with!!!! 3.5 inches of snow on the ground already and increasing. Outside temperature 0.3oC This winter for me has been superb so far with two great snow fall events Happy New Year from snowbound Newbottle !!!!!