On 24 Feb, 18:17, "Bjørn Sørheim" wrote:

Almost unprecedented amounts of snow combined with strong winds have closed
main and local roads in the Sørlandet area of Norway.
The main road between Kristiansand and Grimstad was closed for a long period
on
Wedensday/Thursday mainly because of trucks having bad tires for the
weather.
Stuck trucks made it impossible for the snow-plows to hold the road open.
Thousand of people got stuck in cars and the only way to come to their
rescue was
with snowscooters! Quite unprecedented also for Norway.

Very interesting stuff - an old colleague of mine sent some pictures
of her new home in Denmark and reported 20cm of snow and much
shovelling, but the fact that most of the roads were easily passable
(and a comparison to what might have happened if 8 inches fell in the
UK!).

I realise not many people have replied to this thread - but this snow
could have been us - and indeed the weather models had many people
quite excited over here for a while before they backed off the cold
further east. Got work trips to Denmark and Norway in the next 6 weeks
so who knows, maybe I'll see some more snow further east than these
shores !

Richard