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🤔

We've had situations where we couldn't get out in the car because of living on a hill, but could still get out on foot, so not quite. Couldn't get to work though 😊

Twice - first time I walked a mile to my mums and spent the day there

Second time was beast from the east and we were snowed in until the farmer came and cleared the road the following day. Have never seen so much snow!! It didn't melt for weeks where it was cleared from the roads

We once stayed in a hotel in the lakes for new year (around 1980) and got snowed in. It sounds fab, log fires, food and a bar but in reality it was awful. There was no heating in our room, not because of power cuts just because it was crap. We shivered for two days until we could get out.

I was once, with 3 young kids and DH away.
Luckily I could feed us for a couple of days before I got out.
It wasn’t fun entertaining them in the house for that long !

Yes a few times. Most notably with a 3 year old an a newborn. For 10 days or so. Almost lost my minds

When I was 10 we had a blizzard. My uncle had walked to his work at a radio station (the safety type, not the bbc) having had to abandon his car. Other people snowed in their vehicles had to join him to stay safe. They were there nearly 3 days with very minimal rations.

We couldn't go to school but nothing like him. He was only 2 miles from us, but we were near sea level and he was high up.

I love how for some of us being snowed in is being stuck in the middle of nowhere with no heating/water/electricity and no way of getting out other than by tractor, and for others it's 'had to walk for ten minutes'

Yes. When I lived in the Swiss Alps.

Yes every 3 or 4 years or so it's bad enough to trap us in and stop deliveries to the village shop. As soon as the word goes out that we're about to be snowed in the shelves empty within 10 mins flat

We have 3 ways out of our village.
One lane goes up a steep hill.
One lane has a steep dip.
Last lane just leads to another even smaller village even further away from the gritted roads.

The steep dip lane gets gritted as it's a bus route but when the dip fills with snow the grit's useless and the buses don't come to the village till it's melted/dug out.

One year while snowed in i needed ABs for a sinus infection and i was so desperate i walked over fields of deep snow to get to the docs in next village to get them. The round trip took me 4 hours (20 mins by road on a normal day) and the fronts of my thighs were so cold by the time i got home i was worried i'd never get the feeling back in them!

Oh and also once in aviemore but not in the house - we could get out but the village was cut off for a couple of days

@Laiste - brutal.

Yorkshire Moors - issue was getting snowed out and not making it home in time. not so much now.

Growing up half way up a mountain in North Wales we frequently got snowed in. As a kid it was magical - can't imagine the horror now though! We had no central heating, just an Aga and a fireplace in the living room - where our PJs got warmed before bed. Only single glazed windows so there was frost on the inside in the morning. We got dressed under the covers in the morning. The water came via pipes from a spring, which obviously froze, so there was a huge pan constantly on the Aga melting snow for drinking. I'm not sure we got more than a strip wash during those times. I remember once the snow was so deep the car disappeared under drifts. We had to exit the house via the windows. It took some time for a plough to come and clear the roads. There was no school for weeks! I have no idea how Mum kept us supplied during that time...

Kind of. I live in a midlands city but in a cul de sac. Our cul de sac goes down a steep hill and we live at the bottom of it. Unless you have a 4x4 there's no way to get your car up the hill in heavy snow. We can still get out on foot, but our families live miles away and my job is in a different city which is very difficult to get to without a car (15 min walk, 15 min bus, 2 trains and a 20 min walk). So we are effectively snowed in.

Yes. We got stuck in Zermatt a couple of years ago for a few days. They were bringing in supplies by helicopter.

Depends on your definition I guess...

We've not been able to drive out of our village all weekend but the local shop and pub have remained open. It's been a while since we've had a 'snowed in' Sunday in the pub but it was fun!

My poor mum was frantic and I, little git of a teenager that I was, milked it for all I was worth and ended up with iPod nano for Christmas grin^

Score!

We get snowed in most years. It’s normal for where we live, DH always manages to get out but he’s Mountain Rescue. When the beast from the east hit I never saw anyone for 10 days (including DH), it’s just a part of living where we do and we always have the fridge and freezer stocked up. In a normal year it’s only one or two days though.

Yes, in 2010/11 I lived in a very isolated area and got snowed in for a week.

We had a heavy snowfall but we were also in a very rural area with single track roads which didn’t get gritted.

I was able to wfh but my manager got pissy about the fact I couldn’t get my car out to get to the station and come into the office. On the second day, he said ‘I want you to TRY and get in.’ So I took a photo of the two feet of snow outside my house and sent it to him. He shut up after that.

Just seen they're on the third night in the pub! Crazy

When I had my second child my first went to his grandparents for a few days. Well it snowed that night. Due to being semi rural it took another week before we could go and get him. He loved it there and didn't want to come home.

February 2018 stuck at Exeter service station for 6 hours - very rarely snows in Devon, but the beast from the east lived up to it’s name that time

Several times...high Valleys South Wales.
The nicest time was when it was my son's birthday. Obviously couldn't celebrate as planned but neighbours and their kids clubbed together, someone made him a cake and they all piled into ours for games, hot chocolate and cake.
It was lovely.

Yes, North East Scotland so plenty of times !

However this weekend has been hellish , snowing and minus temps (although not enough to be snowed in ) but loads of villages in this part of the country has now power, water or phone lines since Friday after Storm Arwen and still might be a couple of days for some. I am very fortunate we have power now and water but it has been pretty grim.

Yes, about 12 years ago. My DH would drive me to a little train station in the middle of the Cotswolds so I could catch my commuting train.

One evening the snow had come down so badly that we couldn’t make it out of the village. We ended up spending two nights in the village pub which was absolutely beautiful. The rooms were so pretty and the food and wine was delicious. I was so sad that the snow melted but we ended up moving to the village 12 months later

It happens surprisingly frequently, given that I live in Cornwall. It's because the village is only accessible by single track lanes, so we're low priority for the gritters. Additionally, nobody knows how to drive in icy conditions down here, so half an inch of snow and we all throw in the towel and attempt to go sledging. You may well laugh all you Canadians, Scandinavians, Scots