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David G writes
On 5 Jan, 13:41, Peter Thomas
wrote:
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The press release quoted earlier at
http://www.metoffice.org.uk/corporat...r20100105.html
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Unhelpfully it has no time of issue on it !!

Grim chuckle. 'Today' is probably near enough.

What would you say to someone who proposed collecting a 7.5 tonne
removal van later this afternoon, loading it and then driving overnight
from a part of Godalming can become impassable in snow to Hastings.

Presumably rest of his family and usual car to be moved as well. He had
just bought several large bags of salt.

He has to move house, said he'd been too busy to discover until just now
that it's going to snow. A raised eyebrow and 'best of luck' seemed
somehow inadequate.

--
Peter Thomas

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Peter Thomas writes:
What would you say to someone who proposed collecting a 7.5 tonne
removal van later this afternoon, loading it and then driving overnight
from a part of Godalming can become impassable in snow to Hastings.

Presumably rest of his family and usual car to be moved as well. He had
just bought several large bags of salt.

He has to move house, said he'd been too busy to discover until just
now that it's going to snow. A raised eyebrow and 'best of luck' seemed
somehow inadequate.

When I was aged three, we moved house on the day ofd the famous
snowstorm of 29th March, 1952, from Cranleigh to Effingham, some 20
miles away. By some miracle, I understand that we completed the move
successfully, though unfortunately I was too young to have reatined any
memories of it./
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

In message , Peter Thomas
writes
....

'Today' is probably near enough.

What would you say to someone who proposed collecting a 7.5 tonne
removal van later this afternoon, loading it and then driving overnight
from a part of Godalming can become impassable in snow to Hastings.

Presumably rest of his family and usual car to be moved as well. He had
just bought several large bags of salt.

He has to move house, said he'd been too busy to discover until just
now that it's going to snow. A raised eyebrow and 'best of luck' seemed
somehow inadequate.

Now snowing 1640
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Peter Thomas

In article ,
Peter Thomas writes:
Now snowing 1640

That was time-stamped 18:39. Did you wait two hours before posting, or
was the "1640" a typo?

Snowing very gently in Cranleigh and, as far as I can tell by looking
out from a darkened room, there's an extremely thin covering on all
surfaces.
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

: Peter Thomas writes:
: What would you say to someone who proposed collecting a 7.5 tonne
: removal ... and then driving overnight ... to Hastings.
.....
: He has to move house ...

He has to move house in the middle of the night ?

Colin Youngs
Brussels

In message , John Hall
writes
In article ,
Peter Thomas writes:
Now snowing 1640

That was time-stamped 18:39. Did you wait two hours before posting, or
was the "1640" a typo?

Snowing very gently in Cranleigh and, as far as I can tell by looking
out from a darkened room, there's an extremely thin covering on all
surfaces.

Typo.


We still have 10 cm in Godalming - presumably the accretion from 1230 to
1730 has been offset by settlement, any phase processes inside the snow
and of course any inaccuracy in measurement.


In answer to Colin's query the man who was moving drove to Hastings,
then with little snow, unloaded, returned here by 0600 this morning. His
7.5 tonne van sits at the very foot of the hill as I write. He and a
couple of probably Polish-accented gentlemen - father and uncle, perhaps
- were proposing to re-load it this evening by carrying boxes of
belongings up and over the hill on foot.

Their original plan was to move during the course of today. Hastings,
they say, has now got snow.


--
Peter Thomas