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GUM97



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Got about 2/3 inches at home in Cheshire, but only a light dusting at work (which is only a mile and a half away!) Shocked
7 jackknifed trucks already this morning Rolling Eyes An engine to TDi for!
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Post #221114 22nd Mar 2013 12:12pm
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Eduardo



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In the news today appears that a major snow storm is under way.
Take care guys!

BTW: Here is sunny and expecting 28ºC for today. According to the report, no rain/snow are foreseen in the next 20 days.

Cheers Eduardo

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JWL



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Mountain_man wrote:
3" of wet stuff here in Wales. Please do not wish any more on us poor farmers in the middle of lambing. All around me there are dozens of new born lambs dying every day in this weather. I am fortunate that mine are in sheds and won't be going anywhere till there is an improvement. I may however, run out of feed before then and unless I can buy more then they will starve. Another 2 weeks of this and things will be getting very very grim across the UKs sheep farms, believe me.


My last year as a shepherd in South Warwickshire was in 1998, I was lambing a flock of 1500 all in less than a month. I was 2/3rds the way through when we were hit by the same type of weather we're experiencing now. I only had building space to keep 500 ewes under cover, less when they've got lambs. On the third week a band of rain hit us overnight into Good Friday and when I went on my rounds in the fields I came back with a pick up load of dead lambs ranging from a couple of days old to 10 days old, when counted up there were 245 lambs. Most had died through hyprethermia, some had been overcome by the flash flooding in the fields. Full grown ewes had been swept along, it was an absolute nightmare and you are so helpless to do anything. At the end of the day you can't change Mother Nature and you have to take it on the chin, just don't expect people in that situation to be happy about it, they accept it and try to live with it, no wonder agriculture has got the highest suicide rate in the country as farmers try to deal with their lot.
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Mountain_man



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I remember that date very well. We lost over 40 well grown lambs in that storm. Heart breaking work sometimes this farming lark.
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JWL



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Just had some pictures sent to me by my ex, she lives on the outskirts of Wrexham and shows a good 6 to 7" of snow. What have we got in Hereford? Rain and ever increasing puddles Rolling Eyes
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MartinK



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Post #221188 22nd Mar 2013 3:59pm
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GUM97



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JWL wrote:
Just had some pictures sent to me by my ex, she lives on the outskirts of Wrexham and shows a good 6 to 7" of snow.

That's just down the road from me, and it really is quite bad, especially as you get further into North Wales Confused An engine to TDi for!
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Post #221199 22nd Mar 2013 4:53pm
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mick



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Mountain_man wrote:
3" of wet stuff here in Wales. Please do not wish any more on us poor farmers in the middle of lambing. All around me there are dozens of new born lambs dying every day in this weather. I am fortunate that mine are in sheds and won't be going anywhere till there is an improvement. I may however, run out of feed before then and unless I can buy more then they will starve. Another 2 weeks of this and things will be getting very very grim across the UKs sheep farms, believe me.

A couple of the farms that I go to have lost a lot of sheep this winter one guy was saying last years lambs have been wet for 75% of there life and they just give up Shocked
And we have snow here again Big Cry fed up with it now
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mick



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Got a text off a customer in Canada this am -29 with 4' of snow with another big dump today and everything was running ok
Post #221215 22nd Mar 2013 6:09pm
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a13x



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Well we did head over towards Buxton and decided to turn back about 5 miles from Buxton. With heavy snow still falling, rush hour looming and the main roads out whited over from huge snow drifts. Some of the drifts at the side of roads were 5ft high.

The mrs took a couple of pics from her phone, will see what they turned out like.
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a13x



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Not great but gives an idea.


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Baggie Austin



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a13x wrote:
Well we did head over towards Buxton and decided to turn back about 5 miles from Buxton. With heavy snow still falling, rush hour looming and the main roads out whited over from huge snow drifts. Some of the drifts at the side of roads were 5ft high.

The mrs took a couple of pics from her phone, will see what they turned out like.


They had cameras in buxton area on the news, looked bad and there were a couple of vans that had turned over.
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Laurie



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Just cold, wet and miserable in East Sussex Sad 
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a13x



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Baggie Austin wrote:


They had cameras in buxton area on the news, looked bad and there were a couple of vans that had turned over.


We stopped for a hot drink in Ashbourne on the way back and a news van was in the car park. A few defenders went by at the same time too, 2 grey 90s and a grey 110 complete with rack and hannibal roof tent. 2 of the 3 driven by women.
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Defpuma



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Nothing in kent. We keep missing the worst of it this year!
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