Went out in the car got stuck twice sore a bike on long dalmahoy would have been easier to bike was glad to be back with car did not want to be the fool stuck in the road-)
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"Severe weather warning"
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NEPN passable with care.
Telfer subway more tricky...
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The mother has 8" snow in the garden in Balerno. Possibly more than @gembo as she's on higher ground?
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I knocked as much compacted snow off my bike as I could before bringing it in, but there was a fair bit embedded in the tyre treads and components which just had to be allowed to thaw away by itself.
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Looks to be about a foot on top of my wee bin incinerator thing. When I arrived home I had to wade knee deep through front yard to reach garage, wondered if door would open. Won't if it freezes. Best be back out clearing it.
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Bit of snow out there.... Glad to get home before it. :-):-)
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liminal times out there
not one car on the strasse
should be a few days of fun
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Parts of the water of leith are frozen
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Just walked the dog. Quite a few kids and families out playing in the snow. Basically zero traffic, even on the main roads. Extraordinarily quiet on the back streets.
Lovely.
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How did the dog feel about it?
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Lothian Buses have stopped running this evening.
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Cycled back to Edinburgh from Livingston through Almondell park and along the canal towpath this afternoon (after being also kicked out of the office early).
Had a little tumble in Livingston when I inadverendtly lost the path and went off-piste into a buried obstacle- the snow provided welcome cushioning =). Impressive spindrift along sections of the canal - particularly before the Almond aquaduct where the fields are higher than the towpath - had to endure a face full of powder along these sections.
Something new for me was how (depite the prophylactic storm cap) my eyelashes kept sticking/freezing together -similar effect to nedd1e_h's photo above - it still feels like I've little ice-baubles on my eyelashes.
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I am cursing that fact my MTB is in the shop getting a warranty repair - awesome exploring conditions.
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The Forth and Tay Audax has been cancelled. It must be bad
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Just been for a late night wander.
About 5 inches of snow in Abbeyhill. Drifting to a foot and a half in places. Beautifully quiet.
Very few motor vehicles around, those that are going very slowly. JCBs being used as makeshift snowploughs. London Road barely navigable. Best to walk, very nice. Chippy and pubs on Easter Road doing a good trade.
It's a bit like the heavy snow 8 years ago.
More snow tomorrow...Posted 7 years ago # -
they'll be queuing overnight at Stockbridge Waitrose to get the last few panettone.
#dontpanic
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It took me three hours to get home from work today: two hours on the bus and then on foot the rest of the way.
I made a last minute decision this evening to cycle to my parents' house, while the snow was off, that I might have less far to go to work tomorrow, if indeed work is operating tomorrow, for I have no facility to work from home. I made it as far as Burdiehouse before I started cycling into a gentle blizzard and my glasses fogged up. The going was quite challenging, even with seriously knobbly tyres.
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It's deep even down here in Corstorphine, wfh day me thinks.
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drove in, took 15 mins to reverse a few hundred meters out of the side road of the flat (after 10mins of digging off the snow on the car)
managed to get up the hill (just) using a faint line in the road - noting the 10+ abandonded cars from yesterday, and 1 who did it right in front of me.
QFC was all fine and 0 traffic,
A90 off it though, through Dalmeny and pretty much all the way into the city was a nightmare, blizzard conditions didnt help, but no ploughing and seemed like no gritting either, a tiny line in the snow on the road pretty much until davidson mains.city was single lines of slush, side streets looked a nightmare.
see how the day progresses for my return trip
not looking forward to
(a) getting out of works car park - its a foot of snow already
(b) descending the hill back to the Baystay safe everyone - TBH i think i made a mistake coming in, but i dont get paid otherwise.
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oh - and saw a drop bar rodie bike with a pannier on the a90 on the pavement being pushed by a gentleman who looked annoyed, frustrated and accepting his fate, all in one expression
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Just tried to cycle in. Made it approx 200 metres before realising the lack of cars and buses means the roads are even less "clear" than normal. Couldn't get the bike moving. Came back. Was exhausted just pushing my bike that 400 metres.
I have failed. Weather, you win.
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I'm working at home but tempted to drop pressure in mtn bike tyres a bit more and go for a WoL adventure...
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@unhurt - DO IT :D and post pics! relieve me of my boredom here at work
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The cat seems to have survived. Didn't even want extra rations. Incredible that what's basically an Egyptian wild cat gone soft can be so lynx-casual about waist-deep snow.
Always possible he was in someone else's house of course.
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@unhurt quite deep snow. Fat bike might be ok. My skinny tyres gave up at Currie last night and I had to push. But you might get to St Bernard's Well?
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holy crap a blizzard just came into crewe toll and you cannot see anything outside!
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Saw a driver overtaking a van on Ferniehill Drive this morning.
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Glad I'm not alone in being defeated by the conditions (mostly happy since I was starting to feel a bit foolish for even trying). My 40 min commute took 2 and a half hours yesterday coming home after the office shut at lunchtime. It had been mostly fine in the morning.
That was on 35mm tyres. I think that even if I switch to my 1.75" studded tyres I still might not fair any better at the moment.Posted 7 years ago #
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