Is that around the Hardgate area? It was a right mess of stuck cars this morning, i work just round the corner but stay in Peterculter about 9 miles out of Aberdeen. The roads on the way in this morning were not too bad, but as you said, lack of grit. Just looking at this http://www.sat24.com/homepage.aspx?page=ir that little system off to the north looks like it could bring some fun to Scotland :-)