UK snow: panic buying hits supermarkets as shelves stripped

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 10 Feb 2013, 13:15

Well they got their two feet of snow on the coast but it was pretty much a wind storm here. Less then a foot of snow and a howling wind. It took me just two hours to get everything plowed out. Zero this morning and another storm due tomorrow.

ujoni08 · Post by **ujoni08** » 10 Feb 2013, 16:59

Looks lovely. Much more than we have here.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 10 Feb 2013, 21:47

ujoni08 wrote:Looks lovely. Much more than we have here.

We are a bit below normal for snow fall this year as a couple of the bigger storms came as rain but there is quite a bit of winter left here so still might catch up. One above normal winter years ago my brother got his plow truck stuck at just about the right edge of that picture. By the time we got it shoveled out so it would move I was having trouble reaching the top of the bank with a long handled snow shovel so the bank was about ten feet high.

ujoni08 · Post by **ujoni08** » 10 Feb 2013, 22:05

Hell!

In the UK, I think only the high elevations in Scotland would get anything like that kind of snowfall.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 10 Feb 2013, 22:37

ujoni08 wrote:Hell!

In the UK, I think only the high elevations in Scotland would get anything like that kind of snowfall.

Well a snow bank is not a snow fall. When you clear a road you take forty feet of snow and push it into two banks on each side and the bank is limited to how far you can throw the snow from the end of you plow blade or snow blower. A pickup plow only moves the snow some two to four feet beyond the end of the blade unless your on a smooth pavement and can plow at better then twenty miles an hour. As you can see in the picture there is no pavement there and plowing speed with a pickup is about ten mph. Also the road there runs through a saddle with higher ground on each side. The picture shows you the left but the right side is as high or a bit higher so the wind with the help of the trees on each side tries to fill in the saddle unless it is coming directly from the north and sweeping the saddle clean. It is not straight math as you can't compute twenty feet of snow two feet deep placed in a pile that is forty cubic feet in volume as each time you handle snow you knock some of the air out of it and reduce the volume. When we had the ten foot snow banks there was probably four feet of snow out in flat areas where the snow had not been either blown in or blown away from where it fell. It doesn't matter though even if you can plow fifty miles of two foot snow if your stuck in the one spot where it is drifted ten feet deep , you are stuck!!.