Scottish roads in winter

[woodguy7]

This is a video clip of some guys snowboarding on a motorway in Perthshire, Scotland.  Looks like a blast  [big grin]

A9 Snowboard Session 28/11/10

Woodguy

 

[Jonathanerrrm]

Hi Woodguy,

That looks great fun, I've seen a few guys carrying snowboards around Glasgow city centre and on the subway  [smile] mind you Glasgow seems to have ground to a halt.

I've been working on a film shoot for the past week out in Cumbernauld, we have spent most of it digging out vehicles and trying to get a camera crew to various locations in the area. To be honest it has been a blast and I've really enjoyed driving a van around in it in the early hours before the traffic builds up and everyone gets stuck.

How is it your way, are you snowed in?

 

[woodguy7]

Plenty of snow & the roads are pretty slippy.  Temp ranging from -3 to -12.  Altnahara (1 hour from me) is regularly getting -25 ish.  Like you say, it can be fun driving in it, especially watching those who dont know how to drive in snow  [big grin]
I will find a pic & post it here.

Woodguy.

 

[woodguy7]

The view from my front room yesterday.

 

[Jonathanerrrm]

That's a great view, I didn't realise how far up the country you are. I don't know what the temperature is here, though it doesn't feel too cold.

I'm just amazed at the chaos last nights snowfall caused in Glasgow. People were told not to use their cars and to use public transport, then later in the day all the trains, bus services and even the taxis stopped running so people were stuck....huge lines of people waiting for a taxi or a ticket to get onto the subway and traffic was back to back on virtually every main road. [smile] Other countries that are used to snow must find it very amusing.

 

[woodguy7]

Yea, i am amazed at how poorly the citys are coping with it.  Any one else from around the word with some nice snow scenes they would like to share with us ?

Woodguy

 

[bruegf]

Don't have any pictures of it, but my first year at college was in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and we had 294 inches of snow that winter.  Driving down the highway, you could see just the top 2 or 3 inches of stop signs sticking up thru the snow at some of the dirt roads that they didn't plow in the winter.

Fred

 

[GhostFist]

I'm Canadian.......

 

[Jonathanerrrm]

I'm Canadian.......

;D

 

[woodguy7]

Yea, i kinda thought you guys would put us to shame  [big grin]

Anyone with pics ?

 

[mouppe]

Yea, i kinda thought you guys would put us to shame  [big grin]

Anyone with pics ?

I was going to send you a picture of my car but I couldn't find it this morning.

 

[GhostFist]

When I was in germany some years ago, I was showing them pics of "Canada". Seeing as no one on the outside of Canada really knows anything about it there were all extreme arctic weather shots. I came across one photo of some Northern town that had a statue of a Wooly Mammoth complete with realistic wool, you could see the town in the background. I proceeded to tell my german friends how dangerous these things really are, especially in rutting season, and if one comes close to a village the people have no choice but to gang up on the thing to kill it. I went on to say that if they are killed there is a festival in which we cook the mammoth meat and it and that its very delicious. Well they bought the whole thing. They stopped believing me though when I told them the reason we slaughter baby seals was to appease our Blood God lest we face his mighty wrath ( I told them we had a Blood God Tee Hee).

 

[peter halle]

Hey,

joiner is coming to visit sunny warm Florida.  The temperature is 24 degrees below normal right now.  The lows in Orlando are to be in the 20 degrees F tonight.

Natives will be shivering, he will think that it is a heat wave!    [big grin]

Peter

 

[Jonhilgen]

Here's a pic of some snow we got last year...In South Carolina!  Happens about once every eight years.

Jon

 

[woodguy7]

Jon, thats a cool pic  [thumbs up]

Peter, Joiner will be lying back slapping on the sun cream & the locals will be trying to take him away to the "funny farm"  [big grin]

 

[Kristian]

My mom just sent me this photo of a table I made for her last year. That's almost 40 cm of snow sitting on top of it - looks like a giant cake! All it needs now is the candles.  [big grin]

- Kristian

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