Saturdays' Snow Storm

It was all quiet at work, frozen ground outside from the previous nights mercury reading of -6.7 degrees.
The forecast was equally as benign.

Then it came, around 11am, the sky blackened, the birds retreated to wherever they go when its about to get bad.....gently at first it fell, snow pellets for a while (some say the resemble soap powder), then it stopped. But the sky turned even darker, the street lamps came on, no wind though, strange..........and then those tiny flakes began, barely visible unless looking against a black background, but they grew and they grew, the northerly wind increased, and it threw it down, and I mean threw it down, the visibility dropped as fast as the flakes arrived, the ground was covered in no time, and it kept going and going, heavier and heavier. I think we must have had four inches of it over a couple of hours. Its the heaviest dump of snow I've ever known over such a short period in all my life. Increddible !!




A view from the office


Fortunately, I was alowed to leave work early, best get home before nightfall. But what a journey, motorways down to one lane, traffic travelling at a crawling pace, and they were the lucky ones.



'Slip' road to the motorway

 





Another View



Off we go then

 

Forget the handbrake



Almost at the motorway