Gary_R_Walker
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Without fear of contradiction I can now state that we now have a proper bona fide blizzard. Wind is now blowing at 37mph straight from the east, and the snow is horizontal. -
Still hasn't hit Lowestoft, it's teasing me by just sitting about 200 yards out into the North Sea. As black as night though, and the wind is howling.
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I can now see snow being blown across the beach, it's coming my way. Thanks mate. Winds are now 35mph, so could be quite exciting.
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I am looking east, I'm looking straight out at the North Sea, my house faces the North Sea, and I'm sitting in my comfy chair looking at the North Sea. What do I do now?
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I'm not talking to anyone who has had snow today until I get snow. That might sound childish but I don't care, because I'm sulking.
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It has stopped here already. Sorry, no it hasn't stopped, what I mean is it hasn't started.
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A bit of snow from last week just fell off my roof, I'm counting that as snowfall. So I'm beating you. So there.
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Eat more and exercise less. It works for me.
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Back home in Lowestoft. Now snowing very heavily here, blizzard conditions. Far, far too dangerous to go back out driving............................................................................................................. It's not really snowing but my boss doesn't know that, so lets just keep that information to ourselves.
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Just got to Norwich. No snow. Heading back to Lowestoft in 15 minutes. Roads are perfect.
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Damn, not a flake, so it's back to work. Much brighter here now
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Been driving since just before 6am and have not seen one solitary flake of snow falling. Back home now for a cuppa, and a bowl of Frosties. Now desperately hoping it snows in the next half an hour so that I can phone my boss and tell him it's too dangerous to drive. And he will say, "get out there you wimp."
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At work driving around East Anglia all day, so will try and use my phone to keep in touch with what's going on here regarding snow disruption. So far no snow, and incredibly clear roads. Perfect.
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As I'm sadly old enough to have lived through the "Big Freeze of 63" my boss has told me that a pathetic few centimeters (about 2 inches in old money) would be an inconvenience to the younger generation but to me would be a challenge. Even though I have been drinking a large quantity of scotch this evening I agreed with his assumption. So I will leave home tomorrow morning at 05.45 and leave the weather wimps and geeks to sit in front of their computer screens tomorrow, and head off into the darkest depths of East Anglia in my trusty Mercedes Van to repair our (Government Cyberopticts). Hopefully arriving home at 19.00. If I don't make it home, the BBC were wrong, and the lunatic rampers on here got it right.
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No need to get personal.
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I used double-sided tape and have stuck myself to Siberia. Wishing now that I had shaved the hairs of my chest first.
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Where are you going to place yourself on the map?
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Only 2cm of snow tomorrow, so I don't think I'll have any trouble driving around our region, so at least I'll be paid. As the wife just so poetically put it, "2cm wouldn't even justify her putting her make-up on."
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During the middle-ages two wizards John Dee and Edward Kelley argued constantly about the best way to produce gold by the use of alchemy (I'm not making this up), neither was successful in their endeavors. Going by the Netweather Model thread very little has changed in the last 500 years.
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The Rover 90! I love that car. That was the middle-classes Rolls-Royce. I remember our doctor at the time had one of those, and he used to pay a few of us local tearaways a few pence to keep an eye on it when he had to pay a visit to our manor. I think this would now be called extortion.
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Brilliant photograph, thanks for sharing it. You must have been rich to own a car. We were living in Canning Town at the time in a Prefab. All the internal walls were made of asbestos so we were poor but pretty snug compared to some.
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I haven't got the foggiest what's causing any of that stuff to move in the direction it does but I do see that snowy stuff heading north. Clever Stuff.
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I'm feeling fine about tomorrow, thanks for asking. Not sure if you are missing something. You would probably have more idea about that than me.
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This is good news for me as I'm working all day driving around East Anglia. Going by this Tracking East and Breaking Up I think you are spot on.
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I was 6 years old in 1963. And as I survived it as a small undernourished child that probably means I'm too tough for this forum. But if it's alright with everyone else I would still like to remain here. I'll be back on later after I have watched my Box Set of Strictly Come Dancing.
