From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

Comments inline this time.

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:25:07 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
 wrote:

>Here it's high winds + ice + snow etc. Your basic "Heavy Atlantic Low"
>combined with an airstream from Greenland/ the northern icecap

Yuck.....your subject line was right ! 

>
>Walked the dog up on the moors because the noise of the trees swaying
>worried me (e.g. we lost a large old apple tree in the orchard) too much to
>walk in the forest & the combo of snow on ice meant that at times the wind
>pushed be backwards as if I was skiing.

That *is* nasty.   I think we've talked about this before, but my
memory fails me (brain fart ).....are you actually up on the
moors, or is it just a reasonable drive despite the weather?


>It's why I love doing "wire work" (i.e. sit at home &
work via the net).
>Saves all the either (a) driving to manchester airport > Arlanda
>(Stockhom).......& back on a friday &/or driving Scarborough
 Leeds. Just
>sit in after dog walking at 7.30 & watch the snow
>fall......horizontally......

If it's horizontal, it ain't falling . I'd like to be able to work
that way, too - but there are too many times that I need to be able to
'hands on' a machine that we don't want to have accessible from the net.  
Mind you, I can get to my own
machine at work from home....comes in awful handy when I get called after
midnight because a job has failed .


>..... I would then have to drive
>over the pennines in a blizzard (not that fun).

We came over here in '64 so you'll understand when I say that I have a
*vague* recollection of a ride like that when we once went out for a
Sunday drive and the weather decided to not co-operate.   Not fun.

Doug

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