'96 doesn't ring a bell, we had an absolute dumping round here in 1990, with power outages, however we were pretty much the northern line of it as the snow petered out around M6 J15. I've a feeling it was around the beginning of December.
I'd promised a couple of photographs of the 81-82 winter here in Stafford, Acton Trussell to be precise. I have got photos somewhere of cars buried in the drifts on this road so will have to have another dig.
Just up the road from here there were 20' drifts where the hedge and bank increased in height from the road and the snow just kept falling and blowing out through the hedges.
Lovely inversion the other morning around the Penk valley, Silkmore and Rising Brook areas. The sky was crystal clear and looking over to the West of me from my bedroom window there was a blanket of mist concealing all but a few tree tops. As the sun began to rise it started to dissipate and probably only lasted another 15 mins. Funny how these little weather events are just as exciting to see as a full on blizzard.
It's odd, we seem to have had continual snow since Wednesday yet the really fine stuff, I have no real idea how much we've actually had (12-15cm?), but just imagine how it would have been had we had some proper flakes.