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Does anyone else get nervous in the snow?

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Riverlee · 11/12/2022 19:32

I’ve never liked the snow, or more precisely the icy conditions afterwards. I hate how it disrupts everyday life, and it makes me feel trapped. Also, feel nervous when kids go sledging incase they hurt themselves and can’t get them to hospital etc.

I don’t mind so much if it only settles on houses and fields, and so roads and pavements are kept free. However, don’t think that’s Going to happen tonight.

Although I concede it does look pretty when it’s fresh.

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mathanxiety · 11/12/2022 20:27

I'm not at all nervous about it because where I live we get a lot of it every year, but we're well organised for it and the area is extremely flat.

If I were back in Dublin I'd feel like you, OP.

Elderflower14 · 11/12/2022 20:27

I came off my bicycle on the ice in the dark last year... Smashed my arm on the road... I had a sore hip, knee, shoulder and arm for two months. My arm was black and I had a massive scab too.... I have walked to work in the ice this week.

pursuedbyablackdog · 11/12/2022 20:28

I don't mind driving on gritted roads, but loath it on icy, narrow lanes, which still have excessive water (but now substantial ice patches). It's just lethal, added in twat drivers who don't drive to conditions, get impatient and tailgate, or go like a bat out of hell on blind bends, in country lanes and wonder why they can't stop...bloody muppets!

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Benjispruce4 · 11/12/2022 20:29

No I find it exciting.

slavetothekittens · 11/12/2022 20:31

Having fallen badly on the ice a few times, I'm petrified of snow and ice. I'm not steady on my feet at the best of times. Not ventured outside all weekend because of the weather.

Feels a little warmer tonight so hoping the snow and ice will melt away by morning.

dudsville · 11/12/2022 20:35

I mostly don't mind it. I enjoyed watching the sleat fall today from the comfort of my sofa, but tomorrow i will be out in it on a hill and did find myself pondering how much momentum i could build up if i fell.

Rowthe · 11/12/2022 20:35

Yup the idiots drivers frighten me.

I'm just buying a set of winter tyres so hopefully will be more confident driving in bad conditions.

Work for the NHS so not easy to just have a snow day, as I cant work from home. And not great to let them down. Have to do my best to make it in if possible.

Redebs · 11/12/2022 20:36

Just driven for 3 hours in freezing fog. Would like to send a virtual middle finger salute to the driver much too close behind me with headlights and foglights searing my retinas. When it got part where visibility was dire, I slowed riiiiight dowwwwn and s/he drove even closer.😤

Luredbyapomegranate · 11/12/2022 20:39

Yeah, I have to walk a lot (city) and have a funny knee plus fractured my wrist falling on ice a few years ago.

I love the way it looks, I like it in the country, but not on slippery city streets.

CharityShopChic · 11/12/2022 20:40

Only if I have to drive in it. When the beast from the East hit us about 4 years ago we couldn't get out of the street for a week and had to trudge to the local shop for milk.

It's just because we are not geared up for heavy snow in this country so it causes total chaos when it does come.

IDontWantToBeAPie · 11/12/2022 20:40

Those who are worried about slips and falls - you can buy snow/ice grips that strap onto your shoes.

They're £10 on Amazon/Decathlon etc.

ChristmasJoysuckers · 11/12/2022 20:51

@Rowthe

I don't know why but I didn't think we were allowed to use winter tyres?

ReallyShouldBeDoingSomethingElse · 11/12/2022 20:54

I've got all-season tyres on my car which helps a bit.

After falling and shattering a joint a few years ago I am very nervous walking around when it's slippery underfoot.

greenhousegal · 11/12/2022 20:57

I was fearless at one time. Now much older and will not drive if there is ice. I live in a long cul de sac and it's quiet and not that well lit. So I don't drive until the thaw comes.

As for walking on icy footpaths, well I try but if someone filmed me they would see this mature lady clutching the low walls of the houses on the road, gingerly putting one foot ahead to test the iciness, inching forward and giving up after twenty paces and returning gingerly again to the safety of home. The relief to get in is immense.

Look, I try not to give in to my fears of falling or crashing. I bought cleats and walking poles and everything. I just looked and felt like the abominable snowman. Online shopping and Covid have made staying at home much easier all round. I don't work am retired so who cares?

flowerycurtain · 11/12/2022 21:08

I don't mind it, I would say I quite like it but it can be quite disruptive. However I'm a farmer and we're kitted out for it. We grit our own road, have good shoes/boots and I know if I cock up and end up in a ditch my dad can tow me out with a tractor.

But feed lorries get stuck in the snow and are a nightmare to get out. Staff need collecting in our 4x4.

And not much beats bombing round the farm on a sled!!!

Waxxy · 11/12/2022 21:11

Doesn't bother me apart from the cold but I worry about my grandmother who is in her late 80s and won't let me walk her dog for her!

ElizabethBest · 11/12/2022 21:15

Got stuck in the absolute thick of it on really remote, steep country roads today - just terrifying.

Benjispruce4 · 11/12/2022 21:20

Where is there thick snow in U.K. at the moment?

Theunamedcat · 11/12/2022 21:23

I hate driving my car in it a few years ago i had a beat up diesel pergout that would drive through anything sold it and bought a petrol vauxhall bloody thing skids and slides in mildly damp weather (I've bought new tyres etc) so this is a nightmare if I was still doing the mileage I would seriously try and get my old car back just for the winter! But I'm not and it kills the car not driving long miles

Rowthe · 11/12/2022 21:25

ChristmasJoysuckers · 11/12/2022 20:51

@Rowthe

I don't know why but I didn't think we were allowed to use winter tyres?

That's the snow chains.

Snow tyres or snow socks are ok.

I'm getting all season ones that have the mountain peak symbols on them. So they are legally able to be derived in winter in the countries which have that legislation.

Rowthe · 11/12/2022 21:30

Theunamedcat · 11/12/2022 21:23

I used to have a really old beat up nissan micra.

It could drive through anything. Up icy hills, over could try roads and ditches. Snow wasnt a problem.

Then i got an suv that wasnt a 4x4 not as good. And my current car is better but moved house and the roads are much worse here.

Previously we were on a main road. All I had to do was get off my drive which was on an incline so really easy and I would be on a main road that was always clear. It would be gritted.

Problem was it was a busy road to difficult to get off the drive.

But now in a small cul de sac and roads not as busy and no gritters and also higher up a hill. So much icier and get a lot more snow.

BayCityTrollers · 11/12/2022 21:38

Yes, get awful anxiety whenever snow is predicted. I’m a south coast softie so reality is it is very rare but I’m a nurse and we need staff and every time it has snowed I’ve had problems getting to work and other staff getting to work.

I’ve had a 3 hour journey to work before, a journey that would normally take 15 mins and involved me trying to drive then returning for the train due to gridlocked roads. I’ve skidded trying to get to work as well and then couldn’t leave due to an ungritted slope out of the hospital🤣

It’s never been good to me, always scary trying to get to work and some staff are wont make much effort so the wards become unsafe.

DH used to quite like it as he would take the day off! He’s retired now so no change.

Prescottdanni123 · 11/12/2022 21:59

I don't mind snow. I have snow grips for when it gets compact and slippy. But I absolutely hate black ice.

humancalculator · 11/12/2022 22:10

I agree with a PP, the problem is it doesn't snow enough. If it regularly happened, people would have proper winter tires, would know how to drive in snow, and there'd be enough gritters and snowplows to deal with it all promptly. The very worst middle ground is to be somewhere where it will snow at least once or twice every winter, but where no actual preparations are made. Even knowing how to walk in snow is an art - you do have to more or less subconsciously test your footing with every step - but one that we all forget from one year to the next.

paintitallover · 11/12/2022 22:37

I'm staying put. Still in recovery from broken arm and I'm not taking that chance!

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