Have you ever been snowed in?

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Inspired by this article
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10250997/UK-set-snow-freezing-conditions.html

Have you ever been snowed in either at home or somewhere else and what did you do? I have a daydream about being snowed in on a train journey and where you would sleep🤔

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Not snowed in ever, but I live in Suffolk. Very rarely the roads are impassable, but you could walk to the garage if needs be. DH last had to walk 3 miles to work in 1981.

Many times! Live in a tiny rural village with hills either way to get out. Longest was during the beast from the east when we could get out for over a week.

Nearest shops are 4 miles away so we maintain stores especially for the winter. Try to have enough for at least a month in stock just in case!

However we bought a snow plough for the front of the tractor 2 years ago when the local council was tendering for road clearance and we were awarded a 10 year contract for the local area so I doubt we will ever be snowed in again 🙁

Loads.
Snowed in as in couldn’t get the cars out and it was blizzarding too hard to want to walk the mile to the nearest village.
View from front door…
And the lane out once they’d dug us out.

I remember digging our way out of the street in the 70s. School kept closing due to burst pipes, it was great!

I rode to that pub in Swaledale one summer, never been so cold in my life! We tied the horses up in the car park so we could see them from inside and I virtually sat in the fire!

Not to the point where we couldn't open the front door, but in the winter of 1978 we couldn't get through any road out of our village and no vehicles could move around in the vullage. My brother and I were given two days off school and took our sledge up and down the mile to the village shop, taking provisions to people on our road. Great fun.

Yes about 25 years ago !
Village entirely cut off and me and other cars got stuck driving home from work due to drifting - the army dug our cars out the next day ! We chose our cars from the roof colour

In 1982 I was on a train from Truro to South Wales, I was 7 so can't remember if we had to change trains at Bristol but I expect we did. It was January and snowing very heavily. Somewhere between Truro and Temple Meads we did in fact get snowed in on the train!
Unfortunately it was boring and not only did it feel like we were on there for hours and hours, we actually were stuck on a freezing cold train for 8 hrs.
When we arrived in Cardiff that evening there were no taxis or public transport and it took us at least an hour to walk home.
But my mum made it pretty magical and funny, something she did effortlessly throughout my crappy childhood; I'd forgotten about her doing that and your thread just sparked a vivid memory!
I'm going to call her now and tell her, so thank you very much OP!

Not totally snowed in but had serious problems with it.

In primary, a bad snowfall closed school for a week and we couldn't get down our hill except by walking to the village for bread.

If the green outside the front is white, we call ourselves snowed in so that we can all pull out our gas BBQs and have a neighbourhood gathering over hot sausages and hot wine.

And in the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11, we had to dig out the cars a few different times and could only drive around using snow socks, we did a lot of walking again.

But it's nothing like the conditions DB faces in Canada (where it's just "we had to dig out the car this morning so I'm a few minutes late" - they never admit defeat and that they're actually snowed in.

A couple of times, but I don't live in the UK.
No big deal. The road outside my house gets cleared pretty quickly (within a couple of hours). Digging two tracks to get my car out of the drive (well courtyard) takes a while as there is nowhere to "dump" the snow.
But I am in central Europe, where there is "weather". We put on winter tyres by the end of October and are just generally more "aware". Poor road conditions happen about twice a year. No big deal.

Yes but I was in Finland at the time and it was -26!!

During the 2010 snowstorm, DP and I had gone on a pre-Christmas break to Paris. The snow caused Eurostar to shut down, so we had a bonus three days in Paris. This was pre-kids, so we just enjoyed mooching around the cold, beautiful city until we were eventually able to get on a flight back to the UK. It was awesome!

No, it rarely snows really badly here. I do live on a slight hill where there are always accidents though so won't take my car out. I work from home now so it won't be an issue this year and we have shops in close walking distance.

I usually have at least 1 or 2 snow days a winter,. Beast from the East was the longest at a week. NE here.

My Grandparents village in rural Kent did in the early 1980s. They had supplies airlifted in.

On holiday in the Lake District one February. Snowed in for three days as far as driving went. We still walked but at a lowish level as the mountain rescue guys had enough to do without dealing with foolhardy visitors. My family was apparently snowed in for days in 1963 but I don't remember as I was just a tot.

Ish and not at the moment.

I live in a tiny little village. 1 Road in, 1 Road out. Except the village is on top of a hill and the roads that were snowy are now slushy. And its due to freeze solid overnight.
However by lunchtime tomorrow it should be about 4-5 degrees so it'll all be gone. Not sure if it counts as being snowed in.

I keep 2 weeks provisions at a minimum. However by the time the snow from the beast from the east had melted, I was desperate for a salad. Or indeed anything that hadn't come from a can or the freezer.

Yes most winters it happens for a day or two. But the now and again it lasts for a week or two.

We walk to the shops with a sledge to bring back supplies.

It's no fun any more because if wfh. It used to mean time off work but not anymore.

Snowed into our house several times over the years even though we live in a town in the south east. On two occasions it was for a week. We are near enough to get shopping dragging a sledge and DH could walk to work but yes, stuck at home.

No, even when I lived in a village. Live by the sea now so never snows

Oh and I drove my car (safely) when others couldn't because I own chains

A few times, all rurally. Once when lambing in the Welsh mountains, snowed in on the farm for a couple of weeks. Could only get down to the valley on the tractor. It was in 2013 when we had all that snow in March/April. Wasn’t too much of a problem, just got on with lambing. Was a bit chilly though…

I then lived in a house with a mile long farm track, it was uphill to get out. It was work accommodation so I’d just walk across the fields to get there if I got snowed in.

Yep. A few times living in a pub on the moors, my dad had to climb out the window as the doors were blocked with drifts
Then another time when we also had a power cut and I ended up in hospital as I was so cold (must have been about 4)

We got snowed in a several times when I was a child. It don't snow like it used too these days

Only really properly once in the Fens, when it wasn't so much the level of snow, but the drifts. We couldn't get out of the gate because of it, and had a few VERY cold days because the heating company couldn't deliver our oil for a week. We taped up all of the windows with wallpaper, and boiled the bathwater on the hob

Yes; at one of our houses we got snowed in every year (rural Scotland) Road closed until or unless the snowplough could clear it.
Our kids always hoped to be snowbound and have to stay home (or be sent home) from school and quite often did.

The headmistress of the primary school used to ring me when snow fell, to ask if traffic was still moving on our rural road; if no vehicles had passed she would hurriedly call the school taxi service to send our kids home . I would call DH in the city and say "leave NOW". One particularly bad year the snow had already drifted so fast and deep on high ground even the snow plough had got stuck. There was no way the kids could get home from school by road. A local farmer took his tractor to the school and brought them home cross country. They were thrilled of course.

   Living relatively remote,  we always had a  large stock of food , candles, torches and firewood for huge woodstove so the house was always cosy .  The worst that could happen ( and sometimes did) was that in very severe winters we sometimes  lost our  our private water supply when it  froze underground.  The kids were sent to the river with buckets  to fetch water  (good enough to flush lavs, and for washing up)  and I melted and boiled  clean (ish) snow for drinking/cooking.   So long as you're well prepared  there is something quite magical about being cut off by snow; the silence and peace.