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National: Severe Cold/ Snow Discussion (Thanks to all!)
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looks like a lot of the commuters coming in on the M3 gave it a go this morning as the roads around the navan area at least seemed totally clear this morning, but the traffic was already backing up at around 7:45am once you got onto the N3 and by 8:30 it was almost solid back to where the old dual carriageway used to start.
i actually made it into work fine as i had to drop my wife off at the train station in clonsilla so she could make it to her xmas party tonight after work and she didn't want to risk the buses being cancelled or getting stuck in traffic.
but i got out of the car at work and realised i'd left my laptop at home so i had to come home again which was a bit of a schoolboy error.
still, i got home in no time at all thanks to the outside lane being mostly empty with the majority of people in their 2WD cars still with summer tyres on having to pootle along on the inside lane.
there's no excuse really at this stage, it's not like there hasn't been plenty of warning this was coming (again). people on the roads need to just get used to the idea that the weather is probably going to be like this on and off until march and make arrangements to ensure their vehicles are properly equipped to cope with it.
and whilst we're at it, i wish people would stop flashing me for driving faster than they are. just because they have no experience of how to drive safely on snow and ice and aren't in a vehicle properly equipped for the conditions, it doesn't mean that nobody else does. grrr! :mad:
and on a lighter note, snowcam.
hopefully it'll get a little more interesting later today looking at that forecast.0 -
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Cathmandooo wrote: »Tell that to the boardsie who posted up a video of himself getting electrocuted by lightning during the last stint of thundersnow :P he was ok though.
This guy...
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Cathmandooo wrote: »Tell that to the boardsie who posted up a video of himself getting electrocuted by lightning during the last stint of thundersnow :P he was ok though.
no need to bump your post, you just posted it!
Starting to lightly snow again in D2
Yes, but thunder comes AFTER lightning. All that thunder he heard meant was, "hey, you were just stuck by lightning"...
And surely, surely, wouldn't a more appropriate warning be for lightning... not thunder...?
Sorry for the bump, but sure this thread moves a million miles an hour
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El Horseboxo wrote: »Well i lived in Kansas and i can assure you i heard plenty of thunder, thunderstorm and lightning warnings there. And when i lived in Minnesota i always heard thunder warnings in the snow cause lightning is dangerous in the snow.
Ah come on, American weather is mad compared to ours :pac:
I'll never forget visiting my aunt and uncle in Chicago only to spend a day inside because of tornado warnings!
Anyway here's a pic from 10 mins ago.
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looks like a lot of the commuters coming in on the M3 gave it a go this morning as the roads around the navan area at least seemed totally clear this morning, but the traffic was already backing up at around 7:45am once you got onto the N3 and by 8:30 it was almost solid back to where the old dual carriageway used to start.
i actually made it into work fine as i had to drop my wife off at the train station in clonsilla so she could make it to her xmas party tonight after work and she didn't want to risk the buses being cancelled or getting stuck in traffic.
but i got out of the car at work and realised i'd left my laptop at home so i had to come home again which was a bit of a schoolboy error.
still, i got home in no time at all thanks to the outside lane being mostly empty with the majority of people in their 2WD cars still with summer tyres on having to pootle along on the inside lane.
there's no excuse really at this stage, it's not like there hasn't been plenty of warning this was coming (again). people on the roads need to just get used to the idea that the weather is probably going to be like this on and off until march and make arrangements to ensure their vehicles are properly equipped to cope with it.
and whilst we're at it, i wish people would stop flashing me for driving faster than they are. just because they have no experience of how to drive safely on snow and ice and aren't in a vehicle properly equipped for the conditions, it doesn't mean that nobody else does. grrr! :mad:
and on a lighter note, snowcam.
hopefully it'll get a little more interesting later today looking at that forecast.
call that snow...it's just a dusting0 -
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MilanPan!c wrote: »Yes, but thunder comes AFTER lightning. All that thunder he heard meant was, "hey, you were just stuck by lightning"...
And surely, surely, wouldn't a more appropriate warning be for lightning... not thunder...?
Sorry for the bump, but sure this thread moves a million miles an hour
Because not everyone sees lightning in the snow. So if you give a thunder warning and people hear it they can react to it because the warning was in their head for the thunder regardless of that posing the danger or not.0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y09YVcCcNs
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