To ask if you've made any plans ahead of the Storm tonight?

[Netcurtainnelly]

Usually do the supermarket shop on Friday but been today incase conditions are bad tomorrow?
SNOW.

Anyone else changed plans in preparation?

I'm not in Cornwall! I appreciate it's going to be bad in some places.

We’re forecast snow from 6pm, blizzards from 9pm-3am, and then more snow from 3am-2pm on Friday. I can’t see any further on than that right now. I hope this forecast is wrong snow is such a pain in the arse!

Aah so glad you have got your JRT comfy. Mine is curled up on MY heated fleece and definitely not budging 😂

Are your frightened out of your wits then? I’m not. There have always been storms that present a danger to life in some parts of their path. Being told about them lets me know whether I’m in that part or not. It doesn’t make me scared at all. In fact mostly quite the opposite.
When did people start assigning nonsense motives to the news and weather?

Dh went to M and S football to get ‘treats to get us through’😁

The entire city seemed to have had the same idea apparently.

You wouldn’t know anything out of the usual where we are (obviously could change). Tomorrow and Sat looking like great washing days ☀️💨

There are threads about whether people wash their feet in the shower. Someone idly wondering about something on MN doesn’t imply panic or that it’s a ‘required’ discussion. Why are you so determined to believe everyone but you is in a panic?

I'm in Ireland and even I know about your storm and bad weather, it's all over our news and obviously internet. Op if getting your shopping in a day early makes you feel more at ease then good for you, it would be worse if the storm is bad and you can't get to the shops. Every area is affected differently by weather, I do laugh when people of Ireland say god no we've no bad weather and they live on opposite sides of the country. Sometimes towns next to each other can be affected completely different. Stay safe

We've had snow all week. We've been working from home as we can't get the car safely off the driveway, and school has only just reopened today. Im sick of the damn stuff now, so am quite glad its moving on to other parts of the country. It's someone else's turn to deal with it now, if you could please take the lingering ice with you too, that would be most helpful ☃️

I’m under it, we’ll be good.

Garden furniture might end up in Donald Trumps front garden though.

We don't all live on the South coast.

The national news and weather covers other areas though. It’s just surprising there are people who never catch a news or weather bulletin. It’s does cover most of the country (though I appear to be in a micro climate bit with storm all round but nothing here).

My face to face training has just been cancelled in Penarth. So hooray for that!
I was suprised, they're used to rain in Wales.

But you can appreciate that some people on MN might be? And that it’s on the south coast so your dismissive ‘I’ve seen worse’ is a bit out of place?

so far we've managed to miss the snow to the north of us and looks like we should miss the snow to the south of us too! Forecast is for sleet overnight and throughout tomorrow but no high winds. It's sheet ice outside today and probably the worse conditions we've had since this cold snap started as it was colder but drier earlier in the week.

Probably just stop in the house if its pissing down & windy.

If i need to go somewhere i'll go in the car.

Keeping my fingers crossed.
I’m currently at Birmingham airport with just a t shirt and fleece, waiting for a coach to Heathrow. Then flight tomorrow which hopefully won’t be delayed.

Exactly. There are threads about what colour shoes to wear with a dress, there was one the other day where a poster was panicking because she was going away for the weekend and missing her usual hair wash day… I don’t think posting about a massive storm that is going to affect quite a lot of the country is particularly ‘out there’!

Did a big shop yesterday but the shelves were pretty empty, very little fresh veg after a week of black ice. DH hauled a load of logs in from the woodshed and now has the woodburner going, he's also charged all the torches, lanterns and battery packs. I've made a nice chicken stew and baked a loaf so we can munch away over the evening in front of the fire. Haven't really dented the stupid amount of wine I got in for Christmas so will get a bottle or two out for tonight as we will both be working from home tomorrow.

Really looking forward to a nice romantic evening.

Not really. The news is depressing and they are always wrong about the weather so no point

Tbh I'm sick of all these weather warnings. It's just winter FGS. Have we forgotten how to deal with the seasons in this country? The media are just whipping everyone up into a frenzy. I've lived on this planet for over 60 years. Been driving since I was 17. Prior to Social media we just dealt with whatever was thrown at us. If we were at work and it started snowing, then the boss would make the decision to let people go early, usually based on how far they had to travel. School buses just used to get recalled early if necessary. Now we cancel everything in anticipation of how bad it might be.
Nobody seems to be able to manage themselves anymore. People whinging on SM because every single bit of tarmac (roads and pavements) haven't been gritted by the Council. It's got nothing to do with Council cutbacks or wasting our Council tax. Minor roads and pavements have never been gritted in my lifetime. You put on sturdy walking boots, carried a shovel and a mat in your car in case you got stuck and cracked on with life.

And Penarth is just outside the warning area. It’s likely to be windy though. I live there. An excess of caution maybe. We were in the warning area for a while.

I assume @Netcurtainnelly lives up some steep twisty rural track in the arse end of nowhere, prone to deep snow drifts and off the usual gritting route.

I live 5 minutes from a Lidl, Aldi, Morrisons and M&S, and 10 minutes from a Waitrose (though the road up to their carpark IS steep). Even if someone has to walk there if we can't get to the main road, we'll be fine.

No idea why 'snow' has to be all in caps. Does snow usually cause you to shout OP?

Where are you that you are anticipating being neck deep in snow??

I have GMB on whilst I get ready for work but I dont have time to sit and watch it. Then phone app and Alexa give me updates when their are alerts.