The Deep Freeze!

Aww Josh looks adorable!

Thanks, he has about 15 layers on too!  I also put plastic bags on his feet.  Only his sweatshirt hood was wet when he got inside.

Gorgeous, Stacey.  I love that one with the gate.  Is that your view?

Thank you!  It's the view of the cemetery next door (Gorgeous without snow too )

GREAT pictures!!! 

Thank you

Hey I just spotted my favourite former Vancouver-ite online, on the forum!  Wondering what she thinks of this 'blizzard'? 

I think people in the UK are about as prepared as Vancouverites - not very well sorted - and the weather there has been similar.

I have seen far, far worse conditions living in northern Ontario with no visibility and doors blocked by huge drifts.

But I am still happy me and hubs are working from home today. I hope people do what they need to to stay safe.

Oh yeah - I always forget Vancouver is more like Seattle. 

I also put plastic bags on his feet.

We used to do this when I was a kid. Bread bags.

Great photos Stacey!

I was a happy bunny walking to work in the snow this morning, with wellies to keep my feet dry and a cute new handknit woolly hat to keep my head warm.

We used to do this when I was a kid. Bread bags.

Great photos Stacey!

Me too!  Josh thought I was crazy though, of course

Thank you

I was a happy bunny walking to work in the snow this morning, with wellies to keep my feet dry and a cute new handknit woolly hat to keep my head warm.

When DD wakes up from her midday nap and if the snow kicks in properly again here, I'm taking my munchkin for a walk. Properly bundled in her snowsuit, pink camoflage hat that her daddy got her in California last year and snap the rain cover on her pushchair and go try to catch snowflakes on my tongue! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Oh yeah - I always forget Vancouver is more like Seattle. 

Well, as this almost lifelong resident of the northeast, and resident of a city which had a blizzard that dumped 7 feet of snow over 5 days (not kidding), it's not the amount of snow, but how equiped a place is to handle it.

I remember NYC being paralysed by a snowfall that would have been routine in some of the lake effect cities. 

The Met office has issued a more severe warning for Yorkshire (and the north east) so it looks like things might get worse up here.  My colleagues are talking about going home early- I'm monitoring the public transport situation since I work about 10 miles from home.  DH has a job interview in Doncaster today at 2pm- hopefully it's still on!

I hope we can take better ones today. 

Yes, I hope everyone and their loved ones stay safe and warm (including me and mine).  We were so careful crossing last night expecting people to slide through intercections, but people seemed to be v. cautious.  I still love and miss snow.  I am a winter person.  I always have been, and I always will be.  I know that not everyone is, but different strokes and all that.

Hope to get more pics today/tonight.  My photo of the Battersea Power Station in the snow comes out on my phone, but can barely be seen on my computer. 

Thanks for the pics.  Did get to see it snowing in London last night, as we were on Skype and DD held the laptop up to the window.
As for Boston -- DS and I spent most of yesterday afternoon trying to deal with ice dams and frozen downspouts.  He rigged up an empty can duct-taped to a pole and filled it with ice melt stuff.  Then he could dump it into the gutter.  Meanwhile I was blowing the hair dryer on the bottom of the downspout.  We eventually got it going.  But that was only the front of the house which is one storey.  The back is unreachable 

Ugh!  Call me when there is more than 12 inches on the ground and then I'll consider it a "heavy snow".  And I'm from New Jersey for Pete's sake.

One thing that I'm really bummed about is the depth (rather, the lack thereof) of weather forecasting and reporting.  I'm a total weather geek, to the point that I would read the meteo forecast discussions posted on the NOAA / National Weather Service website to parse the hype from the science.  Pressure changes, temps at various levels of the atmosphere, dew points and humidity levels,.... sigh.  I love reading that stuff and deciphering it for my own personal forecast.  And there's simply no equivalent source of info in the UK... the Met office website is crap and completely inaccessible (in terms of making information clear and easy to gather)

I kinda feel bad making DH leave the Bug at home to take the bus to work this morning.  It took him over an hour because the bus was way late...

Anyone at work should go home now!!  There's another block of snow moving in from France - it's pretty much over London now and supposed to carry on 'til the evening time.  They're calling for 5-10 MORE inches down here in the south-east!

Ugh!  Call me when there is more than 12 inches on the ground and then I'll consider it a "heavy snow".  And I'm from New Jersey for Pete's sake.

One thing that I'm really bummed about is the depth (rather, the lack thereof) of weather forecasting and reporting.  I'm a total weather geek, to the point that I would read the meteo forecast discussions posted on the NOAA / National Weather Service website to parse the hype from the science.  Pressure changes, temps at various levels of the atmosphere, dew points and humidity levels,.... sigh.  I love reading that stuff and deciphering it for my own personal forecast.  And there's simply no equivalent source of info in the UK... the Met office website is crap and completely inaccessible (in terms of making information clear and easy to gather)

I kinda feel bad making DH leave the Bug at home to take the bus to work this morning.  It took him over an hour because the bus was way late...

exjerseygirl, I grew up in Mercer County, and I feel the same way you do!  I took a meteo class in college because I'm such a weather geek, and I avidly read the NOAA forecast discussions and watch the radar...it's driving me crazy not having the same kind of weather reports here!

I know.  I love that stuff too.

Last time I had a big snow at home is was 20 inches and I got to go into work  1/2 hours late.  There were people lined up outside the door wanting their coffee.