Luckily, for getting hay to outlying stock, we had one of these - better in snow than anything we've got today :-
1942 Ford F-15
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Luckily, for getting hay to outlying stock, we had one of these - better in snow than anything we've got today :-
1942 Ford F-15
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
I still think even today with modern machines we would struggle.
Much of our main road network is simply carved out the side of hills. If snow started to blow these man made valleys would just fill in till level? Perhaps the experts took this into account when planning routes.
That coupled with just in time deliveries. Very little storage in supermarkets and reliance on courier deliveries from online orders. I fear we could be in for a tough time.
Dad used to tell me that in 47 the sheep lived around the hayricks and ate underneath them so they looked like giant mushrooms. In 63 grandad drove his Austin A40 up to the farm and parked it in the linhay whereupon the snow blew in and that was the last they saw of it for 6 weeks. 1978 was bad too.
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- Northumberlandia
Jan 1978 was my first bad winter i can remember i was just a lad then.
ollie989898
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Well the EA just fudged the hundred foot drain so Cambridge might be trying to beat that record this year...
ollie989898
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Cripes chaps, imagine that, country skint and rack and ruin in the post war years and they get 7-8 or 10 feet of snow, it would break lesser men.
glasshouse
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- lothians
I reckon 47 winter was caused by the atom bomb and all the other bombs dropped in 1945 which lowered the global temp with all the dust and debris
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- Northumberlandia
The UK struggles with 2" of snow nowerdays
Not us farmers tho!
Not us farmers tho!
ollie989898
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Can you imagine the country today if it had 6 feet of snow? Our society would collapse. You get people today complaining that the council haven't moved the snow off their own drives!
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Possible, but was 1947 global. when I have time I will use the dark skies time machine & look at the entire record of 47.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Loving the current weather, giving me time to catch up, another two weeks might even be in front.
glasshouse
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- lothians
A cooling effect certainly affected northern europe
Southern hemisphere wouldnt notice
jpd
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- rep of irl
no
we d muddle until 3"
Same in 1947 - the schools shut for weeks so we all had the chance to do our bit to help out at home.Winter of 63 was great, snowed in for days so could not get to school, when we did get there the boiler had burst with the frost so sent home for another few days, magic
I did second "man" on the hay waggon and bonfire control at the water troughs.
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jpd
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- rep of irl
we do live in a pampered disconnected sanitized society now
if 47 were to happen today
i shudder at the outcome
if 47 were to happen today
i shudder at the outcome
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
If their was an inch of snow this afternoon the locals would panick buy the shops they would be empty by closing time , and to refill artics have to come over Carter bar or if south soutra , both notorious in snow , I often wonder what would happen if these roads were blocked for say two weeks ? I think it would get to point food would be least of the worries and within a day or two helicoptersI still think even today with modern machines we would struggle.
Much of our main road network is simply carved out the side of hills. If snow started to blow these man made valleys would just fill in till level? Perhaps the experts took this into account when planning routes.
That coupled with just in time deliveries. Very little storage in supermarkets and reliance on courier deliveries from online orders. I fear we could be in for a tough time.
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Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
I don’t mind been snowed in , we prepare you kind of have to 11 mile from a shop, we learned long ago if you wait till it snows the ones who live in walking distance strip the shelves bare .
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- South Lanarkshire
remember 64 blocked in for a week
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
2010 December was really bad.
1986 was very local for some reason but we had snow on the ground for 7 weeks
1979 missed 6 thursday's on the trot due to snow or frozen up pipes at school.
1986 was very local for some reason but we had snow on the ground for 7 weeks
1979 missed 6 thursday's on the trot due to snow or frozen up pipes at school.