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General => General discussion => Topic started by: golfyste on 31 March 2013, 18:03
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Me and a few friends went to a cafe in the peak on the morning of Friday the 22nd...then went for a little walk...nice little place
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On the way back had I stop a couple of times to dig the car out due I the snow getting worse!
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Then came down a road to this!
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Yes there is two cars there!
The snow was drifting really bad and to cut it short we got the car turned around but couldn't get off the road so had to abandon the car.
Couple of 4x4's give us a left to a nearby pub
Can to pick the car up a day later and was met with this....
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The whole road for 500m was 4-8foot under snow :cry:
Spent a pod while digging over the next few days!
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Went back in Thursday after reporting to council/highways as we met a guy who lived on the road and couldn't get to his house!
As a jcb had been down :grin:
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Did some more digging!
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And hallelujah!
http://youtu.be/JoOTzNvxaCc
Well that was a fun week :laugh:
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Bloody hell mate! I bet that was frightening? Glad someone picked you up cos that could've been a lot worse! Glad the golf survived as well. :o
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I wasn't really scared as such but the mrs was sh**ing it :laugh:
The nearest pub was only about 2 miles away and we were dressed warm so would have been ok as soon as we walked out of the drift...(snow was only 2" deep 500m away but 12" where the car was!)
I blame the fiat driver! We turned left at a junction and got a little stuck on a tiny drift... A fiat panda 4x4 came down the hill as and said "you'll never get up there" so we followed him down the hill and were net with the two abandoned cars and he managed to get out and we didn't haha
Turns out we would hae easily got up the hill after that first little drift we got stuck on!
So it's all his fault :laugh:
It's all ok apart from when I first got in there was a nice thick layer of ice on the discs! :laugh:
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Of never had said that was in the uk! Unreal!!
Did you get to that interview? :laugh:
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Yeah I did :laugh:
....but not in my car! Haha
I need to correct it I got it out Friday not Thursday haha
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Paid my dad to take me haha
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looks like you had a blast, not something you experience everyday
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:laugh: don't think I will let it happen again!
A story for the grand kids I think!
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Where was that?
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The Peak District near hathersage/bamford!
Looks like Russia though! :laugh:
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What induction kit are you running?
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It's a k&n pipe to behind the bumper with a jetex cone.
I dug a hole to the front bumper before I started it so it could breath :laugh:
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The Peak District near hathersage/bamford!
Looks like Russia though! :laugh:
Figured as much, was going to go out for a drive out there but thought better of it when the snow felt. Went for a walk out Worrall way instead, gave up when the drifts started reaching the same height as me....
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It was bad at all when we set of in the morning and went for the walk it was just on the way back it caught us out....buuuut it was all good fun :grin:
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see if you had winter tyres you would have been fine :grin:
oh hang on that's not a mk6
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:laugh:
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we get snow like this in the summer in south wales :grin:
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The Peak District near hathersage/bamford!
Looks like Russia though! :laugh:
Figured as much, was going to go out for a drive out there but thought better of it when the snow felt. Went for a walk out Worrall way instead, gave up when the drifts started reaching the same height as me....
Familiar scenes there, I live quite near to Worrall - went up there the other week with the intention of a walk on Loxley Common, no chance!! The drifts up round Bolsterstone/Bradfield were mad, way above the car!
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Live about 5mins away from Hillsborough golf club and went out round the nature reserve next to it last time it snowed before the big drop we had most recently. Even then the drifts were nearly 2metres tall, saw how tall they were most recently and didn't even bother going in.
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No snow at all down south! :whistle:
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Seen 30ft round here!
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