Can't believe the snow we've had today!

[HowardQ]

You probably won’t hear this on the news as the “A57 Ice Road Truckers” finally escaped from Anston village, blowing their horns and waving to the locals who had fed and looked after them.
When I was down at the Anston crossroads yesterday evening, I could not work out how the route out towards Worksop was clear of vehicles. If the new underpass at Lindrick Gold club had collapsed, as reported, a mile further down the road, why could I see ¼ to ½ a mile down the road to Worksop and there was no traffic just a van and two coaches waiting to come the other way. What happened to all the trucks between here and the subsided underpass, which had been reported by local news and TV, who had been briefed by the police? There is no way they could have backed them out and if they had where would they have put another hundred trucks.
I had a chat to the bloke who manages the gritting and road clearing services at RMBC, as I know him well. I mentioned that if they could grit the road up past where I live, they might be able to move some of the trucks from the wrong side of the road, as they were never going to get them out towards Worksop. His reply was “Howard there is no bloody road collapse at Lindrick, that’s a load of B*****ks, the lorries at the other side are just stuck in the snow on the hill, they just need a gritting truck with a plough to get them out”.
So why can’t you chat to Bassetlaw Council and arrange with them to work from that side as well. We have talked to them and they are trying to but neither of us have any control of anything any more, it is now a major police incident and they are controlling the gritters and everything.
So at one side of this mess we have Rotherham MBC and South Yorkshire Muppets, on the other side it is Bassetlaw Council and their set of Notts. Muppets.
The councils talk to each other.
Muppet leader on the South Yorks side, sends a snatch squad out to local farms and starts to relieve the farmers of their tractors and diggers. Doesn’t initially help much as the trucks can’t move anywhere.
As well as council staff, Mountain Rescue and the truckers themselves all tried to offer alternative suggestions. If you saw it on telly, right in the middle of the village was a British Salt tanker, who the truckers had chatted to and come up with the plan to use the 20 ton or so of salt in his tanker to help clear the road. He had chatted to his bosses who had agreed to let him do this. Muppet command would have none of it.
Strange thing was the none of the place Range Rovers seem to have ventured down to the actual problem area at Lindrick, to check what was going on there, well it was right on the border and there was a lot of snow and ice.
Then possibly an older Muppet, remembered how well they worked together in the Miners Strike, (the last major incident they had around here), when they worked really well together to stop Yorkshire Miners getting to Notts to picket the open pits there.
So they talked to the Notts Muppets and suddenly became aware that there was no collapsed underpass as they had told the press, all they really needed was a gritter truck with a plough on the front, and who were controlling the gritter, yes the Muppets themselves.
Within quite a short time they had opened one lane and let all the lorries through to Worksop, then the ones on the other side came though, all blowing their horns and waving to the villagers like the first lot.
Which just leaves the question, how did the South Yorks Muppets, who after all only took just under 20 hours to realise 200 hundred trucks were actually stuck on the A57, take 46 hours to work out that there hadn’t been a road collapse they just needed a gritter.
(One of the lorry drivers actually asked the first coppers they saw, where the bloody hell have you been, we have been stuck here all night and need help, the copper replied, sorry but nobody knew you were stuck mate).
Anyway the answer is they cheated and sent the police chopper out late this afternoon to actually find out what the problem was. Another classic was the copper on Radio Sheffield this morning who went to great lengths to explain that there were lots of cars and vans that had been left and they had no way of finding out who the owners were, if they weren’t in the Church hall. Funny how the same coppers even without ANPR cameras can pull up a bike and get the owners details with seconds from the PNC or whatever. Perhaps bending down and clearing snow away to read a number plate would have been too much of a risk. Many of the cars stuck there were local people who could not get back to their homes in the village, so had left their cars and walked home like the bloke next door to me.
Sorry to go on at such length, but how the **** did we get into this mess?

[Kwackerz]

Saw a fleeting thing on the news about the A57 row of trucks earlier. Didnt pay much attention past commenting I knew someone who lived by there..

[D-Rider]

If the new underpass at Lindrick Gold club had collapsed,

Now I know up your way that "where there's muck, there's brass" but I hadn't realised in contrast to the recession that the rest of us have been suffering you've gone "up market" into more precious metals.
Not just one or two of you by the sound of it but enough to form a thriving Gold Club!

[Samray]

Best start building your ark for when it all melts.


We've got bugger all ... too bloody cold to snow! yet

[HowardQ]

If the new underpass at Lindrick Gold club had collapsed,

Now I know up your way that "where there's muck, there's brass" but I hadn't realised in contrast to the recession that the rest of us have been suffering you've gone "up market" into more precious metals.
Not just one or two of you by the sound of it but enough to form a thriving Gold Club!

It doesn't really matter if it was Golf or Gold, it never really existed it was just the Muppet Gold (or Golf) Club.
Was typing quickly as can't keep the line running for more than a few mins, only just got back on line again since!

Just lost the line typing this but came back up.