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I've been looking at the UK weather reports, especially for Scotland and the North.
You folks hang in there.
You folks hang in there.
Quite heavy over the water in Ireland. Normally the bad weather comes from the West but not this time! Four kids at home til next Monday! Still - 2 snowball fights and one snowman isn't bad going.
I'm more Southern so doing okay, but appreciate the thought.
Hang in there, northern folks.
I keep thinking of the way snow in Irish mythology like the Táin and related texts, and in the Mabinogi, is a sign of something Otherworldly going on.
I keep thinking of the way snow in Irish mythology like the Táin and related texts, and in the Mabinogi, is a sign of something Otherworldly going on.
It was quite passable (to be fair I was in a Landrover so most things are quite passable), the problem is that drivers of 4x4s seem to think that they are immune to bad weather and hurtle along as if nothing was different. The fact that two tonnes of X5 takes a lot of stopping when there is nothing for the tyres to grip on seems to take them completely by surprise as they pirouette into the central reservation causing a chain reaction of followers to do the same.
I'm not sure an X5 even is 4WD
no more use in bad weather than a Fiesta or a Golf.
... or a Golf.
Keep safe, everyone. Don't drive unless you have to. And if you do have to, make sure you have wellies, coats, gloves, torches, and all that stuff. And perhaps a tow rope and shovel, just in case.
Here in Dublin so far we've had a few inches but thankfully we haven't had to go anywhere today.
Thursday and Friday are looking horrible. We are expecting a collision between the "Beast from the east" and Storm Emma coming up from the south, and we are right underneath that fight. Continuous blizzards expected for both days.
Bread supplies are an issue here, but we were thinking of eating one of the cats that come into our garden.
We've spent the day taping up around all the windows. They're sliding sashes and very well weatherproofed, but the wind is so strong now that it's blowing snow into the rooms around the edges, which isn't good. There's about four feet of snow piled up in front of our outbuildings but almost nothing on the track to the front of the house, because the wind is blowing it all around.