Minirotty

Had a few texts and phone of pals saying theyve abandend (sp) cars and walking the rest of the way home

aparently the snow shower has frozen

so if I was you avoid the midlands roads

Staffi

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I wouldn,t leave a push bike in Birmingham let alone my car.....

24vcossiemat

oh that don't sound good, whats coventry like, gotta go over there in the morning to collect a car from a police pound???

kosman

i was down birmingham yerterday morning at bout 5am,it was proper icy.

24vcossiemat

i can live with ice.. spent the last 3 days in surrey repo'ing cars an got stuck numerous times. but snow is getting on my nerves a tad now.. any slight incline an ya just sit there wheel spinning

Minirotty

cunt

Sonic Boom

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Coming from a man that lives in Coventry!!
Rich

Staffi

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We,re there tomorrow infact xmas shopping..

Tell you what, if you ever want good fish & chips then go to bedders near the Asda on the Island, cracking scran there...

Minirotty

Your brave going tomorrow mate, was there Monday was pretty packed then

Minirotty

Same shits happend again now aparently

Minirotty

A38 an hour ago

Twellsie

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hmmmm, i have gotta go over coventry, should i chance it? lol

Minirotty

duno mate could be sunny over there

BM08

Im in stratford about 20mins from coventry, and in stratford its had a few inches from 11am till about 12:30 pm, put a covering over the roads but the salt from lastnight seems to be melting it away

Scott-rs2k

hmmm

i got to go m1 / m6 later to j10 i hope it be ok etc (finger crossed) and return

orionmojo

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Birmingham was a nightmare earlier. i was in my truck (an 8 wheel tipper) and it had just started coming down. cars were all over the place but the lorries were ok at that point, some artic's were starting to struggle presumably cos they were empty, but mostly it was the mercs, bmw's, lexus were among some i saw stuck in less than half an inch of slush. they were really struggling tbh.

It was my turn to overtake them on the hills this time diff locks in, 8 wheel drive and 4 wheel steering. luverly juberly heehee. parked up and headed home at about 11am cos the jcb couldn't see what he was doing, but theres mental traffic outside my door now, i live on quite a busy rd and main bus route i reckon its going to be interesting from now on until about 7 - 8 ish.

orionmojo

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M6 is at a standstill southbound mate, junc 3, tailbacks through 3a, 4, 5 , 6 thats over 10 miles.

its usually 6 to 10 thats congested to f**k though, be careful in this weather, you might be better coming down the wolverhampton new rd.

Dar-rst

what happens when u drive on ice then??

orionmojo

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He still moves, just not always in the direction he wants

Dar-rst

so thats why he prefers ice to snow

Little-AL

Jeez! Where abouts is that? I imagine Rubery etc was probably the same...

Main roads have mostly cleared now but estates etc are fucked! our work got sent home @ 3

DHMC

the main roads are ok but the back streets are crazy... just stay on the by-passes

DHMC

Oh I span my motor twice on the way home lol... ok so I was trying to do it but still lol

Shings

Just driven home through Solihull to the Wood from Shirley... not too bad but once you get out Castle Brom way and off any of the main roads its all fucked... even bus routes.

I've had to put bricks under my wheels to prevent this happening this year.




My clio slid down my drive after I parked it.

Minirotty

good guess mate, that was the bipass on way into Rubery from J4

Minirotty

havent seen a car go past my house for hours lol

few hours ago



now

Shings

I just went and cleared the drive for the old man, got to the bottom and it was bloody covered again

obrutsr09

Your an ICE ROAD TRUCKER

Little-AL

Ha good guess... I was expecting it to be Bassets Pole end tbh...

Last February it was fun down the A38 - Mom and Dad trying to get to the airport in that load of snow...

DanW@FastFord

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Had more than that in Somerset. There was no way I could get into work, which was just as well as they sent everyone at home at 2pm!

Minirotty

was a ridiculous amount of snow on the car this morning wish Id taken a pic tuck me 15 mins to dig it out the drive

roads are now death traps here as no snow has been lost and the slush is now ice, -4 on way home and I seemed to be the only one on the rd, no one else go to work today? lol

dojj

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we couldn't get to half the plaes we were supposed to get to today
some of our drivers couldn't even get to the depots, and one crashed on the way to work
they wanted me to go to ascot andmarlow and all them countrside/wilderness places inbewteen but fuck that shit for a laugh, the last time it snowed one of our guys got stuck at 2 in reading and didn't get back till midnight