Business as usual in spite of blanket of snow (From Swindon Advertiser)
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Business as usual in spite of blanket of snow
10:00am Saturday 11th February 2012 in News By Emma Dunn
Thomas and George Cotterill take a sledge ride at Lydiard Park thanks to mum Cara
A BLANKET of Snow may have covered Swindon yesterday but it was business as usual for commuters, pupils and motorists.
Snowflakes started falling at about 8pm on Thursday and temperatures dropped to below freezing, leaving the town covered in about 3cm of snow.
Patches will remain over the weekend but Swindon is not likely to get any more snow in the next few days, according to the Met Office.
A spokesman said: “On Saturday temperatures will struggle to get much higher than one or two degrees. It will be reasonably cold on Saturday night but a bit warmer by Sunday.
“There is a chance there could be some ice. With temperatures getting up a little bit the snow does melt and then when the temperature falls back down to minus it freezes.”
All schools were open and transport services were running as usual.
Swindon Town’s League Two fixture at Barnet today has, however, been called off following a pitch inspection at Underhill.
Comments(16)
Always Grumpy
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11:32am Sat 11 Feb 12
· a shovel,
· blankets, or sleeping bag,
· extra clothing, including a scarf, hat and gloves,
· 24 hour supply of food and drink,
· de icer,
· rock salt,
· torch,
· spare battery,
· petrol can,
· 1st aid kit
· jump leads...
I looked a right t!t on the bus this morning!
Robfm
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11:47am Sat 11 Feb 12
TinkeyWinkey
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12:09pm Sat 11 Feb 12
You learn to cope, after all it's something that happens in Winter yet we still get peeps that fall to pieces over the old white flakes.
PJC
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1:45pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Wow! good job they told me or I'd never have realised! Phew!
Scrumping
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2:11pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:What a stupid comment from a stupid little man.
I am reliably informed it was minus 15 on Salisbury Plain Thursday night. Shame our Military aren't as prepared as above.
Scrumping
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2:11pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:What a stupid comment from a stupid little man.
I am reliably informed it was minus 15 on Salisbury Plain Thursday night. Shame our Military aren't as prepared as above.
Robfm
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6:44pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Scrumping
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11:54pm Sat 11 Feb 12
Robfm
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9:01am Sun 12 Feb 12
PJC
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3:26pm Sun 12 Feb 12
Knobfm
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5:45pm Sun 12 Feb 12
I logged in as AG and made an incredibly funny joke.
Then I logged in as myself to empasise my joke, but scrumping foiled my plan.
I'll just have to be insulting till he goes away.
Everyone longs to hear what I have to say. Especially when I'm ridiculing our armed forces
Knobfm
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5:51pm Sun 12 Feb 12
My business is the same as usual
Scrumping
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1:08am Mon 13 Feb 12
Robfm wrote:Oh dear you really have no better retort do you? It was behaviour like this that has seen you banned from many many websites.
Nothing puerile, sympathetic to your plight.
Robfm
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7:18am Mon 13 Feb 12
Knobfm
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12:29am Tue 14 Feb 12
I've only been banned from one website.
Aren't I clever?
Hmmmf says...
10:39am Sat 11 Feb 12