Is there still ice on your street?

[ShiftyBagLady]

my street is terrible. when is it going to melt?
i'm seriously considering giving shiftyjunior the day off tomorrow as i just can't face the slip slidey walk to the bus stop in the morning.

 

[Greebo]

9.30 am rare sighting: Council worker using a spade to attack pavement near the brow of Tulse Hill <faints>

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Blenheim Gardens is like an ice rink

 

[ajdown]

Blenheim Gardens is like an ice rink

Probably why there's no post.

Mind you, most of the roads on the hill seem to be similarly afflicted with no attempts made by the council to do anything about it.

If there's a loose paving slab, the council fix it. If there's litter or crap on the pavement, the council clear it. Why can't they do the same with ice/snow?

 

[TruXta]

Sudbourne Road wasn't much fun today... water on ice. Should be gone by tomorrow tho.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

it.

If there's a loose paving slab, the council fix it. If there's litter or crap on the pavement, the council clear it.

Really? When was the last time you went up Blenheim Gardens?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Probably why there's no post.

Mind you, most of the roads on the hill seem to be similarly afflicted with no attempts made by the council to do anything about it.

If there's a loose paving slab, the council fix it. If there's litter or crap on the pavement, the council clear it. Why can't they do the same with ice/snow?

Lambeth fix paving slabs and pick up litter....?

What parrallel universe are you living in?

 

[Fingers]

One side of my street, the pavements are clear (Southwark), the other side is still solid ice (Lambeth)

 

[Crispy]

One side of my street, the pavements are clear (Southwark), the other side is still solid ice (Lambeth)

Is this because your street runs east-west and the lambeth (south) side is in shadow? Just a thought...

 

[Badgers]

There is still lice in my sheet

 

[OpalFruit]

I saw a woman pushing a child in a wheelchair down the central ice-free part of the road because the pavement was sheer ice. Cuntish van driver skidded past in the icy bit, nearly knocking her over.

Wish traffic near me had done the one-legged pensioner thing - they have been racing around, many yakking onto mobiles at the same time.

 

[bluestreak]

In patches. most has melted or been gritted but what remains is seriously fucking slippy.

 

[gaijingirl]

Our estate did get gritted almost immediately - but I think they've run out now so we have some pretty deadly ice - in patches though, not everywhere.

Similarly, my school is going to have to close again tomorrow. We're on a very very steep hill and we've run out of grit and ice and it's just ridiculously dangerous - everyone is falling over everywhere - particularly outside the school gates. Apparently there's another "severe weather warning" for tonight which has basically meant that with the ice situation, the lack of grit/salt, we have to close as we cannot guarantee pupil safety.

 

[keithy]

I was OK about the lack of gritting on Monday, thought that it was a case of there being no point as there was just so much snow. But now it's Thursday and it's fucking dangerous out there and all I've seen in the way of grit is some council workers having a snowball fight and putting one pile of the stuff down then driving off. I wanted to snowball them in the face

 

[Roadkill]

It's still like a skating rink on all but the main roads round here.

I made the mistake of trying to come home via a footbridge over the railway line near my place last night. It was lethal. The steps were solid ice, and sloping downwards so it was nigh-on impossible to get a grip anywhere. It was a case of hanging onto the handrails with both hands just to stay upright.