They get our gratitude in return for keeping the country going in times of extreme weather as we don’t have snow ploughs only farmers and their tractors 🚜 👍
It's the same in the U.S. Our rural areas can take forever to get cleared... but the good farmers with their John Deere tractors always come to everyone's rescue and usually will not take a dime for doing it :)
I remember that a December blast then the thaw then another snow blast,still the worst winter I can remember, I worked on the railway, working all night to get stuck train moving and people on the train freezing for ages.
Hell back in the 60's they had to bring machines from the opencast mines out to clear the ... 3 months later you'd see cars upside down in fields and think... How did that get there, but they dumped the snow either side of the road where able to not knowing cars were amongst the stuff
That winter, we had snow up to our upstairs window ledge, I remember as a kid looking out my bedroom window across the surface of the snow, I reached out to it because I couldn’t believe it. We had to cut our own garden trees for firewood because coal deliveries couldn’t get through.
The snow in this video was no worse than back in the 80's. The village I grew up in, every now and then was cut off for a couple of days. The kids in the village longed for this each winter, as it meant no school and a lot of sledging.
@@trowwzers5057 To all of you....these events are something that happens.....maybe only every decade or so...but it is normal.......I have bought snow chains for my Jeep...Really good ones....I might not need them for another 5 years, but I will have them if I need them.
winter 1947. From January 22nd to March 17th, snow fell every day, somewhere in the UK! snow accumulated quickly, reached 1.5m (150cm) & Across the UK drifts of more than 5 meters in depth..1963. Probably the worst winter of the last 100 years. From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, England was under snow continuously for 3 months,snow drifts reached 20 feet & −19.4 °C (−2.9 °F)
I remember, the drifts were up to the bedroom windows on the first floor, when we opened the back door is was compacted snow. We took buckets of snow from the back and through the house and tipped on the front garden and made a tunnel to from the back door to access the road. For us kids it was a magical time.
In 1965 when I was born The snow covered cars in the street There were snow drifts almost as high as double decker buses My dad said there were bulldozers going around clearing the roads The road from Matlock to chesterfield was completely cut off My dad had to walk 12 miles to see my mum in hospital when she had me It took him nearly all day to get there They gave him a bed because they knew he couldn't walk back lol
I can remember the winter of 62/63 very well, we had 4 to 6 feet of snow in places, we had 2 days off school that's all, now i have just seen a weather warning today predicting up to 2 inches of snow is forecast, and they are telling people not to risk travelling out in it, get out and walk you wimps, that's what we had to do in 62/63 to get to school.
I wasn't born in those years, but I pretty much agree with you. And people should fit winter tyres, they make a huge difference when driving on snow and ice.
NIC4X4 CAM I acknowledge your choice of winter tyres, these Nokia (can't even pronounce the type !!) are very popular and are the must have tyres in the Nordic countries, if, like those countries, we are destined to have two or three months of snow, (here in Scotland,even the Cairngorms sometimes have bear seasons), to continue,if we had winter where we knew the snow would definitely come, then yes, I'd have a spare set of wheels with those Nokia tyres on. I do have a Audi A4 Quattro, but if the snow is 2/3ft deep , it's not going to help much, most modern car's (my one is an Avant) have plastic A.B.S under- shield panels, which can leave the vehicle sitting on compacted snow, with the wheels hardly touching the ground.
Theres a foot or two on the ground, as well as some drifting, looks impressive. Some parts of the Scottish Highlands recorded up about 60ft (yes, sixty feet) or more of snowfall a few years back. It basically snowed from November and didn't stop till March.
Organ Music Remember them well in Aberdeenshire , they couldn’t cope with it nowadays , the ex American army Mack trucks used to push through anything , petrol engines, remember the drivers saying when they were in really deep stuff it wasn’t miles per gallon , it was gallons per mile .
62/63 probably, fits what I remember of this time. But have been cut of in Wales in more recent times, an got to England..and no snow. Where have you been??? Well it took me two days to get out of Wales. Believed, no, but was quite true, we'd been cut off, by snow and freezing temperatures. Vehicles wouldn't couldnt budge. Exciting at the time but nearly got me the sack....
I love the way the news says UK covered in deep snow.....what they mean is a small part of the Highlands and the Hebrides have some snow......Down in Swindon they had half an inch which melted overnight.
I remember this well, we use to walk on the hedges to get to the farm and help the farmer with the milk delivery around the area in Somerset near Crewkerne. What an experience then, it’s nothing now, no help if we get snow. What is progress, good video, thanks .
The front end loader is doing a nice job there , living in northern Wisconsin in the country it looks like an every day winter most years , not all though , 4x4 ford Trucks is all I own and my old Case 580 loader works well for my 7/10 `s of a mile long driveway and I go down the county road clearing with it at times along with doing neighbors long drives as well , nice post , thanks
I remember this, my sister got so upset because it was snowing on her birthday. Meanwhile on my birthday (19 days after hers) the snow had gone and i was upset because i had to go to school on my birthday XD
My whole village was cut off from everything for an entire week when this happened , my dad had to get us food because we ran out and he went to the A1 and got a lift from his friend to the nearest town , but to get to the A1 he had to walk 6 miles through that snow with the shopping in a small sled.
Agree he drive way to fast for conditions and I know you need momentum to get you through some bad parts. Also I can remember winter 62/63 on Dartmoor and the village of Bridistowe was cut off for days and there was talk of 30’ snow drifts?.
I was in the Army at that time, on Dartmoor, digging out sheep - and Cadets that some idiot let go training. The Royal Marine Commandos had called off their training because of the weather !!
@@rosemarydudley9954 Dartmoor snow was FORTY FEET deep in places - I was there - so were the blessed sheep !! THe Farmers knew exactly where to dig to find their sheep !!
@@malteseowl Remember Wales being cut off. Helicopter being used to drop essential supplies to remote districts. 62/63 incredibly high drifts, could dig into walls of snow.. way above our heads as youngsters, we thought it great fun. But there was so much snow on our roof (and right up our windows) my dad feared it would collapse...thank God it didn't.
I think, in his defence, the Go-Pro Camera has a wide angle lens that makes distances seem to be 1.5 times longer. So the speeds will appear to be 1.5 times faster.
I was an apprentice at Heathrow during the winter of 62/63 and the temperature was -11ºc on the aircraft outside airtemp gauges for a week. But the winter of 1947 beat that.
Those who can remember 1963 in Devon can say this is a mild fall of snow. They had to use helicopters to transport food and fuel to out lying hamlets, as many were cut off for more than two weeks. There was not the machinery then to clear the roads. They even had the army digging out some lanes by hand.
12:01 I never knew that people in Great Britain have such high pitched voices! Except for you guys using the wrong side of the road... 🤣... that looks like a typical winter and scenery here in America. Greetings across the pond.
Had to go a long way to get nowhere! Best bit was the Volvo XC90!! Now what do the authorities always tell us? - "If you don't need to be out in it, stay at home" - "Don't go out sightseeing in the snow because you can easily become a casualty of the weather, and become an unnecessary additional burden on the already stretched emergency services". Winter '62/'63 makes this look like a scattering of icing sugar, and wait for it, we had much worse winters in the years 1976 to '85. I remember passing through Forge Valley in North Yorkshire, about 1982, where the snow had been a good 12 to 15 feet deep, and that still did not come close to the '62/'63 event. If you're going to go on snow like that, you can't do much better than a good 4WD tractor, unless you happen to have a 'Snowtrac' 'Snowcat' ' Skidozer' or a 'Skidoo'! And never, ever, make the mistake of thinking a 4WD car will get you out of trouble, they won't, they have limits, and far too many people develop an unhealthy and misguided trust in their cars, only to come unstuck when they needed it most. Even a hovercraft has serious limitations on snow.
Love this. 4x4 + winter tyres is the only way - Quattro alone wouldn't be safe. I have a Jimny and fit winter tyres for snow and ice. Used to have an Allroad and that was great but thirsty.❄👍
How strange. I thought that this reminded me of a trip from Herefordshire to Pembrokeshire in March 2018 along the A44 and lo! so it seems to be. Funny thing is that it all got better past Rhayader and that there was nothing at all in Pembrokeshire. The daffodils were out in bright sunshine. I always loved my 2WD Yeti and this video gives me a smile.
Actually it was Rhayader where I was trying to get to that day, but as you can see in the video nothing could have got through, where the JCB was digging the snow. Maybe if I would have driven around on another route, but I couldn't be bothered. 2WD's are good in snow with the right tyres, as long as traction is on the front wheels not the rear.
The best thing you can do in this weather is , put your foot down as hard as possible on the go go pedal , and see how fast you can go before your wheels spin or you hit something , then walk to the pub get drunk, have a game of darts, maybe a bag of salt and vinegar crisps , talk in a speeded up way
I only remember the snow of 81/82 .my parents car was parked on the side of the main road.when that snow landed,they were unable to move it for ten days ,it was almost covered,deep in snow!
1963 was far worse than the beast from the East 12 foot snow drifts and my town was cut off for 3 weeksuntill the army dug us out but the biggest snowfall by far was in 1947 15 snow drifts and the snow lasted from November 1946 to april 1947 The beast from the east was only a dusting of snow compared to those in the past
The word Audi stands for Arrogant Useless Driver Inside, and this driver proves it as he leaves a family with young kids to potentially perish on an impassable snowy road.
russvhill2 Ummm, I think they were enjoying a walk and didn’t need to be ‘rescued’. They probably live round there.We used to do that when I was a child. It’s called going out together as a family!
I did 3 winters crossing the peak district, so I've seen it worse than that, walls of snow each side of a single track 'corridor' well over the roof of my car, white out blizzard conditions, etc etc had to give up one time it was so bad but a snow plough passed me going through, so I turned around and followed it over. Drifts so deep there were 'pockets' of snow still left in shaded dips many months later in June ....fun times ⚠️😁😎👍
but you were able to pass because it was sorted by some snow ploughs. If you watched the video, here it was impossible to pass with pretty much any vehicle, the JCB was not able to pass, had to actually dig the snow.
@@nic4x4cam92 The roads over the peak district get deeper and deeper the higher you go, when it's like a blizzard and a snow plough goes over you follow it over, trust me it doesn't stay clear for long at night time when I was travelling over. In 3 winters there was only one time I had to turn back and basically go further south past the peak district and across the tops lower down. I wasn't driving a 4x4 either it was just a front wheel drive 1.0 ford lol but it did very well in the snow, over hard pack snow and ice also. 👍😎
@@pdtech4524 well the snow you see in this video where the JCB was digging it wasn't only from snowing itself but also being blown onto the road by the blizzard and it got to be about 3 meters high in one night. I know how it is to drive in heavy snow and blizzards, I drove in other countries in Europe where winters like this are the norm. Peak District can be bad in winter, but some parts of Wales can be as well. I don't live in Wales, I work all over Britain, so I happened to be there when this happened, and it was the worst I've seen in this country maybe another winter I'll see worse in Peak District, or in Lake District, or in North Yorkshire... And although I own also a 4X4, in this video I was driving a front wheel drive Audi, with proper winter tyres which helped a lot.
We also had thick fogs around this time which was stopped by the clean air act , I've noticed solid fuel stove are making a comeback hope that don't return lol
It was similar where i live but it was worse for me than for some other people because the nearest shop was 30 miles away , me , my mom and my sister were stuck in the house for a whole week, my dad after 3 days in the house had to walk to the shop for food but he said it was mostly empty , he pulled the sled he got from the A1 from his friend and i helped him for 5 miles because i helped him half way from the A1 , i took pictures of the snow and it reached above the hedges and covered my entire window , meaning it was about 3 meters high.
@@nic4x4cam92 My dad said that because of the change in climate its going to happen for another 3 years but i doubt it will happen,because these types of winters dont just happen each year , i think it will happen after the 3 years not during them.
Nice scenic drop of snow. My thumbnail is at the official winter snow fall record, 95 feet in 1998/99. Where I'm standing the snow was 65 feet deep on July 1, 2011 so I had to stop my bicycle ride 4.5 km back down the road where they gave up ploughing. Mt. Baker, Washington State, USA.
Sometimes it comes from nowhere, left Llanidloes in rain, by the time we went through Llangurig, snowing heavy and deep snow on the road, loads of people stuck and a car went off in front of us. Sometimes it's unexpected
Chasing the snowstorms. Sounds like good fun to me . Somebody has to do it , otherwise we haven't got a wonderful video to watch during the lockdown 👍.
i worked for Derbyshire highways at chapel en le frith in the 80s, this was a regular thing from November to April, and the roads where kept clear all the time.
Hello - I live 120 miles north of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We hat a week in January were the average temperature was -35c before any wind factor. Even after periods of rain and warmer weather the snow comes to my armpits in the wood. We can get up to 20 to 30 cm in a single night. We have two seasons: winter (6months) and the others. I know that you are not equipped to handle snow but I have never see a backhoe used to clear snow. Snow plots mounted of pickups (4x4), 10 wheelers (6x6) with front and side plows, Snow blowers on small tractors, on those big farm tractors, payloaders, road graders. In Quebec snow tires are mandatory. I have a big SUV so I have room to transport:t a chainsaw (trees fall because of the snow and ice), chains, pulleys, a come along, a high lift jack,heavy duty booster cables, heavy duty booster pack. I keep snowshoes, extra winter boots, parka and other clothes. I also have candles (heat), energy bars, bottle water. Sometimes to get to the cottage I have to park my SUV along the county road. Generally small country roads are 44 ft wide. I put on my pack sack and snow shoe to the cottage get the big fireplace going and then clear the barn door put in a spare battery (fully charged not frozen) in my tractor. I plow my own road with my 20hp V2 AWD articulated Huskavarna tractor. The snow blower is 42in wide which a minimum to clear the lane, parking areas, access areas. Well we are used to it and in general snow storms do not affect us to much. My SUV is an important part of my winter driving. It’s an All Wheel Drive (AWD) 6 cylinder 3.3 litre with double overhead cams. From this video I can see that the snow you get is challenging. The comment about farmer’s clearing part of the roads is well founded. The have the tractors.
Thanks for giving us an interesting and highly detailed insight into Quebecian winter driving. You confirmed that it's not quite as straightforward as some RUclips armchair experts would have us believe.
Man I want to get to Ware you live in Quebec,I would love to live there,I just love winter,one day I will , Canada I think is god's country,and it's. Calling my name,right now I live in the mountains of north Carolina and,witch can be cool,we get are share,but nothing like you guys.
Didn't mostly strong winds create these steep snow drifts. It was deep but the gale force easterly winds piled snow amounts to make things look deeper.
Looks like a normal New England winter. Now, what vehicles have I owned? 2.3 escort 3- that was actually good for a 2wd, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru (+truck), Subaru (+ different truck), Subaru, Honda Ridgeline (truck, mostly, sort of).
Gave up my Forester, it was a 98 and got a Kona 1.6 Turbo. It’s not a Subaru, but that baby can fly. I’ll probably be leaving The Lower Hudson Valley for Florida anyway.
What great quality video, any ideas what camera is used? If I had an Audi and that snow locally, I'd do exactly the same thing...snow ain't as much fun on two wheels though! :)
Marimilitarybrat Not sure if they have them in Scotland but we certainly don’t have them in southern England. We very rarely get snow and if we do it’s about 1 - 2 centimetres deep! If they expect snow the council grit the roads (think you call the council the municipal services). I remember one year around 1986 when we got a lot of snow in the south and it was about 40 centimetres deep even in Central London. I saw they had snow in Las Vegas recently. A very rare occurrence!
NIC4X4 CAM as will all cars, it depends on the depth of the snow, with the modern cars and their plastic under shields, you end up tobogganing, And yes, I do have a Audi Quattro .
Where i lived, if was so bad, that the salt trucks had trouble getting through. I lived in Presteigne, in Wales. The town had no cars anywhere. The pubs in the town were full. The streets were full of kids playing. and I remember a man with nothing but shorts on, while drinking a vodka on his roof. I'm not even joking. But it was really cosy and nice. The log burner was on, snow was falling. The pubs were somewhat cosy as well. I miss it tbh
Went down to London from N Wales, in an Austin 10. The snow was 10 ft high on the A5 at Cannock, but had an 8 ft wide cutting for one stream of traffic to pass. (No motorways then.)
It was on A44, you can see in the video at about 1:35 - 1:55 I'm passing the Fforest Inn on the left, (that's not a typo, that's how it's spelt, it's probably Welsh), where some cars and lorries are stopped, you can find that Inn on google maps. So it was between the Fforest Inn and Llandegley village on A44.
@@nic4x4cam92 cheers for that 4X4, here in cheshire east the "Beast" never really lived upto expectations,i should know 'cos i went wild camping in it and all i got was a soggy tent and wee bit of snow. Thanks for giving me a better perspective on your brilliant vid. A.T.V.B👍
Honestly, I learnt more about the psychology of the uploader being unable to accept constructive criticism, than anything else. Constructive criticism is good. Knowing how to accept it is even better. Nice snow all the same.
most of the "constructive criticism" which you are talking about was plain insults and unfounded "accusations" that I was driving too fast, or I shouldn't be on the roads in those conditions or that I should have taken that family for a ride... but I will accept your "constructive criticism" because you're funny 😁
@@nic4x4cam92 Probably driven in more snow than you through the years! Not an expert by any means but stand by what I said! If one of the people had slipped you would have run over them!
Going by the comments here the UK had the climate of Canada 50 years ago. Either that, or nostalgia bias has taken over rational thought, and there is an irresistable desire for one-upmanship (why??). Hint: not all winters back in the day were cold and snowy, you are selectively recalling them because they were memorable, they were memorable because they were not normal and they were disruptive. Wet soggy (normal) winters like we had in the 1990's don't stick in the mind half a century later. Some of the claims of past winters on here are ridiculous.
Where on earth were all those people walking to?I would never leave my car ,I hope they made it home safely ,I remember winter's like that I'm a southern softy now.
Winter of '77 worse than that - 52" of snow in 24 hours on January 11 in Upstate NY. I used my CJ-5 with a Meyers Hydroturn plow to plow driveways and parking lots and made a bloody fortune!
@@nic4x4cam92 Lots, comparing dedicated snow removal equipment in the high latitudes of NY (not anywhere near NY city). I used to drive a Chevy C-60 4WD dump with salt/sand spreaders with an 8' Meyers hydroturn plow with wing plows that could clear a two lane road in one pass (and we had LOTS of those trucks). Britain may be higher in latitude than NY, but seeing a tractor trying to clear a road that is a bit much for it? 6' to 8' drifts were nothing to clear for us, but I think that Britain should spend a little more on heavy duty trucks that can mount snow plows in case of need. I hear from a friend in Wales you do not use salt but cinders and calcium carbonate to get rid of ice - wish we did because salt rots out our vehicles very badly. You should be glad that the Gulf Stream follows along your coastlines or you would be colder and snowier. With natural "climate change", this might change a bit. We do not believe in man caused climate change at all. Such rot!
Todd Lavigne Yes I would agree. Certainly in southern England we don’t have snow tyres as we rarely get snow. My BMW is hopeless in the snow so I don’t drive when it snows but take public transport to get to the station.
winter tyres would solve that problem. There are plenty of BMW driven in Scandinavia and other European countries where the roads are covered in snow and ice. They're doing fine, with the right tyres
I have drove on roads like that in my life time and never again . I always refused to even start the engine when the snow comes down , like that. Because you could be paying extra insurance for years because of a silly skid. It's cheaper to just stay at home. And if you need to go anywhere, you can use a taxi. But there again I live in the town where roads are gritted. Only the side roads are like this " well not as bad .🇬🇧
That is a lot of snow, but it could be misleading to me. I don't really see a lot of ditches or snow fencing. Low and unprotected roads can drift up quickly.
I tend to say deep if I walk in that snow and it's up to my knees or waist. When I'm on a road and the snow on the sides of the road is as high as first floor I tend to say big.
Not a lot to shout about here in West Suffolk this time around. I was away on holiday when it happened in 2018 . Much to my disappointment that I didn't see/witness it ☹.
Someone had had to clear the road for this chap. Let's hear it for the farmers who often do the job....
Farmers and neighbors who pull stuck cars out of drifts and ditches, and expect nothing in return - good for them!
They get our gratitude in return for keeping the country going in times of extreme weather as we don’t have snow ploughs only farmers and their tractors 🚜 👍
It's the same in the U.S. Our rural areas can take forever to get cleared... but the good farmers with their John Deere tractors always come to
everyone's rescue and usually will not take a dime for doing it :)
David we use JCB
Not sure where/which part of the country this was ? Any idea anyone ? Thanks .
Winter of ''62/63 much worse than this - snow on ground for almost 3 months.
I remember that.
Phaedra Collins I remember that
I remember that a December blast then the thaw then another snow blast,still the worst winter I can remember, I worked on the railway, working all night to get stuck train moving and people on the train freezing for ages.
Hell back in the 60's they had to bring machines from the opencast mines out to clear the ... 3 months later you'd see cars upside down in fields and think... How did that get there, but they dumped the snow either side of the road where able to not knowing cars were amongst the stuff
That winter, we had snow up to our upstairs window ledge, I remember as a kid looking out my bedroom window across the surface of the snow, I reached out to it because I couldn’t believe it. We had to cut our own garden trees for firewood because coal deliveries couldn’t get through.
1947 and 1963 no roads at all.it was snow snow.
The snow in this video was no worse than back in the 80's. The village I grew up in, every now and then was cut off for a couple of days. The kids in the village longed for this each winter, as it meant no school and a lot of sledging.
I can remember opening my back door 80s and the snow was like a wall
In the UP of Michigan, the snow walls are usually over your head and it snows a lot. They get 7 inches of snow and they call it a dusting
@@trowwzers5057 To all of you....these events are something that happens.....maybe only every decade or so...but it is normal.......I have bought snow chains for my Jeep...Really good ones....I might not need them for another 5 years, but I will have them if I need them.
Dont you love how everyone is a expert on driving once it snows. Excellent video
Snow tires..
Haha
Low gearing and momentum, and I don't mean Jeremy Corbyn's gang.
@@fraggit made me smile. Corbyns lot could be used for traction boards
@@leekegs ooh, dark, I like it 👍
Fascinating to watch. Thank you for making it and sharing it.
Wow! Very good driving skills! Thanks for the video.
winter 1947. From January 22nd to March 17th, snow fell every day, somewhere in the UK! snow accumulated quickly, reached 1.5m (150cm) & Across the UK drifts of more than 5 meters in depth..1963. Probably the worst winter of the last 100 years. From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, England was under snow continuously for 3 months,snow drifts reached 20 feet & −19.4 °C (−2.9 °F)
I remember, the drifts were up to the bedroom windows on the first floor, when we opened the back door is was compacted snow. We took buckets of snow from the back and through the house and tipped on the front garden and made a tunnel to from the back door to access the road. For us kids it was a magical time.
In 1965 when I was born
The snow covered cars in the street
There were snow drifts almost as high as double decker buses
My dad said there were bulldozers going around clearing the roads
The road from Matlock to chesterfield was completely cut off
My dad had to walk 12 miles to see my mum in hospital when she had me
It took him nearly all day to get there
They gave him a bed because they knew he couldn't walk back lol
Snow brings everyone together. The great bringing everyone together.
Awesome vid! Right vehicle, right tyres, right technique!
the right technique would have been to stay off the roads
@@antking8847 pfffff
@@antking8847 What if you have to actually go out for a meeting for somthing?
I can remember the winter of 62/63 very well, we had 4 to 6 feet of snow in places, we had 2 days off school that's all, now i have just seen a weather warning today predicting up to 2 inches of snow is forecast, and they are telling people not to risk travelling out in it, get out and walk you wimps, that's what we had to do in 62/63 to get to school.
I wasn't born in those years, but I pretty much agree with you. And people should fit winter tyres, they make a huge difference when driving on snow and ice.
NIC4X4 CAM I acknowledge your choice of winter tyres, these Nokia (can't even pronounce the type !!) are very popular and are the must have tyres in the Nordic countries, if, like those countries, we are destined to have two or three months of snow, (here in Scotland,even the Cairngorms sometimes have bear seasons), to continue,if we had winter where we knew the snow would definitely come, then yes, I'd have a spare set of wheels with those Nokia tyres on. I do have a Audi A4 Quattro, but if the snow is 2/3ft deep , it's not going to help much, most modern car's (my one is an Avant) have plastic A.B.S under- shield panels, which can leave the vehicle sitting on compacted snow, with the wheels hardly touching the ground.
It's a good job they weren't in the last war.
Theres a foot or two on the ground, as well as some drifting, looks impressive. Some parts of the Scottish Highlands recorded up about 60ft (yes, sixty feet) or more of snowfall a few years back. It basically snowed from November and didn't stop till March.
Organ Music Remember them well in Aberdeenshire , they couldn’t cope with it nowadays , the ex American army Mack trucks used to push through anything , petrol engines, remember the drivers saying when they were in really deep stuff it wasn’t miles per gallon , it was gallons per mile .
Organ Music what year was that?
62/63 probably, fits what I remember of this time. But have been cut of in Wales in more recent times, an got to England..and no snow. Where have you been??? Well it took me two days to get out of Wales. Believed, no, but was quite true, we'd been cut off, by snow and freezing temperatures. Vehicles wouldn't couldnt budge. Exciting at the time but nearly got me the sack....
@@indyjones1135 within the past 10 years. I can't remember off the top of my head, but it was well reported and photographed at the time.
I love the way the news says UK covered in deep snow.....what they mean is a small part of the Highlands and the Hebrides have some snow......Down in Swindon they had half an inch which melted overnight.
I remember this well, we use to walk on the hedges to get to the farm and help the farmer with the milk delivery around the area in Somerset near
Crewkerne. What an experience then, it’s nothing now, no help if we get snow. What is progress, good video, thanks .
Oh, that was nice of them to give you that info. What a snow storm. Glad you're safe.😊
Checkout 1963, this looks fun compared to what we experienced then, 😊
The front end loader is doing a nice job there , living in northern Wisconsin in the country it looks like an every day winter most years , not all though , 4x4 ford Trucks is all I own and my old Case 580 loader works well for my 7/10 `s of a mile long driveway and I go down the county road clearing with it at times along with doing neighbors long drives as well , nice post , thanks
Loved the north woods. Grandma had a cabin near Woodruff. Moved to WA because it is WI with mountains.
63 and 82 were much worse. They went on for weeks. 2018 was minor.
I remember this, my sister got so upset because it was snowing on her birthday. Meanwhile on my birthday (19 days after hers) the snow had gone and i was upset because i had to go to school on my birthday XD
Oh, bless.
My whole village was cut off from everything for an entire week when this happened , my dad had to get us food because we ran out and he went to the A1 and got a lift from his friend to the nearest town , but to get to the A1 he had to walk 6 miles through that snow with the shopping in a small sled.
Oh dear
Good old dad.remember getting milk with my dad and sleageing it back.63
From Connecticut USA. Glad to see you guys enjoyed the snow. Looks like good times to me.
Agree he drive way to fast for conditions and I know you need momentum to get you through some bad parts.
Also I can remember winter 62/63 on Dartmoor and the village of Bridistowe was cut off for days and there was talk of 30’ snow drifts?.
I hope you didn't get the 30ft. snow and that it WAS only talk. I was 16/17 - riding a 125cc Lambretta 8 miles every day to the stables in Stanmore...
Maybe he just knows how to drive and Audi quattro M8!!! Don't be worried 😉
I was in the Army at that time, on Dartmoor, digging out sheep - and Cadets that some idiot let go training. The Royal Marine Commandos had called off their training because of the weather !!
@@rosemarydudley9954 Dartmoor snow was FORTY FEET deep in places - I was there - so were the blessed sheep !! THe Farmers knew exactly where to dig to find their sheep !!
@@malteseowl Remember Wales being cut off. Helicopter being used to drop essential supplies to remote districts. 62/63 incredibly high drifts, could dig into walls of snow.. way above our heads as youngsters, we thought it great fun. But there was so much snow on our roof (and right up our windows) my dad feared it would collapse...thank God it didn't.
Seen it much worse. This guy not keen on using wiper blades, and slow down.
You need to keep your momentum up or else you'll get stuck like at 3:27 where they slowed down and got stuck in the drift.
Mark Wright Still no excuse for 4:33, driving way to fast. Surprised he didn’t lose control.
@@woodenfloor3131 I agree
I think, in his defence, the Go-Pro Camera has a wide angle lens that makes distances seem to be 1.5 times longer. So the speeds will appear to be 1.5 times faster.
LOL, u all are so scared about this driving conditions. Just typical winter condition here in Finland...
I was an apprentice at Heathrow during the winter of 62/63 and the temperature was -11ºc on the aircraft outside airtemp gauges for a week. But the winter of 1947 beat that.
Cool video, what a devastating snow storm, just like the ones we have in Western NY 👍
Those who can remember 1963 in Devon can say this is a mild fall of snow. They had to use helicopters to transport food and fuel to out lying hamlets, as many were cut off for more than two weeks. There was not the machinery then to clear the roads. They even had the army digging out some lanes by hand.
12:01 I never knew that people in Great Britain have such high pitched voices!
Except for you guys using the wrong side of the road... 🤣... that looks like a typical winter and scenery here in America. Greetings across the pond.
2009 n 10 were bad years..but nothing on the 50s/60s.
1947 biggest snow fell ever
December 2010, coldest December for 100 years.
@@clivejenkins254 yes, my dad had to take my mother on the back of a tractor to have me.
1963 was the coldest winter for 200 years
@@mechellekingman7833 I would beg to differ, my dad was a farmer and, he reckoned, 1947 was the worst in his living memory.
Had to go a long way to get nowhere! Best bit was the Volvo XC90!!
Now what do the authorities always tell us? - "If you don't need to be out in it, stay at home" - "Don't go out sightseeing in the snow because you can easily become a casualty of the weather, and become an unnecessary additional burden on the already stretched emergency services".
Winter '62/'63 makes this look like a scattering of icing sugar, and wait for it, we had much worse winters in the years 1976 to '85. I remember passing through Forge Valley in North Yorkshire, about 1982, where the snow had been a good 12 to 15 feet deep, and that still did not come close to the '62/'63 event.
If you're going to go on snow like that, you can't do much better than a good 4WD tractor, unless you happen to have a 'Snowtrac' 'Snowcat' ' Skidozer' or a 'Skidoo'! And never, ever, make the mistake of thinking a 4WD car will get you out of trouble, they won't, they have limits, and far too many people develop an unhealthy and misguided trust in their cars, only to come unstuck when they needed it most. Even a hovercraft has serious limitations on snow.
OK mommy! :D
Anybody see the face in the drift on the right at 3-40mins looks like Maggie Thatcher lol
JD Gibson Well, she was a cold old bugger !
Love this. 4x4 + winter tyres is the only way - Quattro alone wouldn't be safe. I have a Jimny and fit winter tyres for snow and ice. Used to have an Allroad and that was great but thirsty.❄👍
I remember when we use to get snow fall like this back when i was a kid in the 60s and early 70s and now when we get a few mm of snow its mayhem.
Mohammad Omar ha ha yes I agree, especially in the south!
Children today are not half as hardy as we were. They are wrapped in cotton wool.
The early 70s were snowless
I live in Britain and I havenst seen snow for the past 4 years!
How strange. I thought that this reminded me of a trip from Herefordshire to Pembrokeshire in March 2018 along the A44 and lo! so it seems to be. Funny thing is that it all got better past Rhayader and that there was nothing at all in Pembrokeshire. The daffodils were out in bright sunshine. I always loved my 2WD Yeti and this video gives me a smile.
Actually it was Rhayader where I was trying to get to that day, but as you can see in the video nothing could have got through, where the JCB was digging the snow. Maybe if I would have driven around on another route, but I couldn't be bothered. 2WD's are good in snow with the right tyres, as long as traction is on the front wheels not the rear.
The best thing you can do in this weather is , put your foot down as hard as possible on the go go pedal , and see how fast you can go before your wheels spin or you hit something , then walk to the pub get drunk, have a game of darts, maybe a bag of salt and vinegar crisps , talk in a speeded up way
I only remember the snow of 81/82 .my parents car was parked on the side of the main road.when that snow landed,they were unable to move it for ten days ,it was almost covered,deep in snow!
1963 was far worse than the beast from the East 12 foot snow drifts and my town was cut off for 3 weeksuntill the army dug us out but the biggest snowfall by far was in 1947 15 snow drifts and the snow lasted from November 1946 to april 1947 The beast from the east was only a dusting of snow compared to those in the past
What no lift for the poor sods walking in the middle of nowhere?
It seems like the child refused a Stranger's offers 😂. He/she would rather play in the snow with his/her family members.
Should he have done?
The word Audi stands for Arrogant Useless Driver Inside, and this driver proves it as he leaves a family with young kids to potentially perish on an impassable snowy road.
russvhill2 Ummm, I think they were enjoying a walk and didn’t need to be ‘rescued’. They probably live round there.We used to do that when I was a child. It’s called going out together as a family!
I did 3 winters crossing the peak district, so I've seen it worse than that, walls of snow each side of a single track 'corridor' well over the roof of my car, white out blizzard conditions, etc etc had to give up one time it was so bad but a snow plough passed me going through, so I turned around and followed it over. Drifts so deep there were 'pockets' of snow still left in shaded dips many months later in June ....fun times ⚠️😁😎👍
but you were able to pass because it was sorted by some snow ploughs. If you watched the video, here it was impossible to pass with pretty much any vehicle, the JCB was not able to pass, had to actually dig the snow.
@@nic4x4cam92 The roads over the peak district get deeper and deeper the higher you go, when it's like a blizzard and a snow plough goes over you follow it over, trust me it doesn't stay clear for long at night time when I was travelling over. In 3 winters there was only one time I had to turn back and basically go further south past the peak district and across the tops lower down. I wasn't driving a 4x4 either it was just a front wheel drive 1.0 ford lol but it did very well in the snow, over hard pack snow and ice also. 👍😎
@@pdtech4524 well the snow you see in this video where the JCB was digging it wasn't only from snowing itself but also being blown onto the road by the blizzard and it got to be about 3 meters high in one night. I know how it is to drive in heavy snow and blizzards, I drove in other countries in Europe where winters like this are the norm. Peak District can be bad in winter, but some parts of Wales can be as well. I don't live in Wales, I work all over Britain, so I happened to be there when this happened, and it was the worst I've seen in this country maybe another winter I'll see worse in Peak District, or in Lake District, or in North Yorkshire... And although I own also a 4X4, in this video I was driving a front wheel drive Audi, with proper winter tyres which helped a lot.
@@nic4x4cam92 Correct tyre choice is everything and plenty of tread helps a lot! 😎👍 -17c was the coldest I saw my outside temp gauge plummet to lol 😯😁
@@pdtech4524 I drove at minus 20 something in Norway and Sweden, and minus 30 something in Romania
We also had thick fogs around this time which was stopped by the clean air act , I've noticed solid fuel stove are making a comeback hope that don't return lol
Gone to look up how to build an igloo!
There is always one tosser who thinks he can drive anywhere even in these conditions .
because there are too many tossers who think everything should stop because it snowed
It was similar where i live but it was worse for me than for some other people because the nearest shop was 30 miles away , me , my mom and my sister were stuck in the house for a whole week, my dad after 3 days in the house had to walk to the shop for food but he said it was mostly empty , he pulled the sled he got from the A1 from his friend and i helped him for 5 miles because i helped him half way from the A1 , i took pictures of the snow and it reached above the hedges and covered my entire window , meaning it was about 3 meters high.
crazy some winters… especially when the wind blows the snow on the roads. We'll see what this winter will bring...
@@nic4x4cam92 My dad said that because of the change in climate its going to happen for another 3 years but i doubt it will happen,because these types of winters dont just happen each year , i think it will happen after the 3 years not during them.
would love to drive through that snow in my forrester. thanks for sharing.
Bet there was a warning not to go out except for essential travel! Can't see this as essential!
No, this was just for fun. You are welcome to stay inside your home unless you have some "essential" trip to do
For me, it was the winter of 1947 that sticks in my mind, just the tops of the telephone poles visible at times.
as I said to others before mentioning that year: not even my parents were born in that year
NIC4X4 CAM Ach well, I was nine at the time, so my memory of that winter is still vivid, (off school for so long!!)
WHAT WAS HE DRIVING ---A TANK ? THOSE PEOPLE, OUT AND ABOUT WITH CHILDREN , I HAVE NO WORDS--
just an FWD Audi with winter tyres. And ... those people out and about with children.... what about them?
A44 from Fforest inn to bend on Radnor Forest heading towards Penybont . I live a mile further on 2018
Impressive grunt for the conditions but nearly always risky.
Nice scenic drop of snow. My thumbnail is at the official winter snow fall record, 95 feet in 1998/99. Where I'm standing the snow was 65 feet deep on July 1, 2011 so I had to stop my bicycle ride 4.5 km back down the road where they gave up ploughing. Mt. Baker, Washington State, USA.
That sort of snow was regular back in the 60s and 70s
We had it much worse than that in the High Peak in the early 1980s!
then that must have been "the biggest" in Britain
Was this some type of Hitch Hikers guide thing talking in mouse talk ?
Reminds me of the snow we had in 1995 in Cumbria, we lived right on the coast, but it looked like this.
Why would u even attempt to venture out in those conditions🤔🤔
some do it out of necessity, others for fun.
Sometimes it comes from nowhere, left Llanidloes in rain, by the time we went through Llangurig, snowing heavy and deep snow on the road, loads of people stuck and a car went off in front of us. Sometimes it's unexpected
Chasing the snowstorms. Sounds like good fun to me . Somebody has to do it , otherwise we haven't got a wonderful video to watch during the lockdown 👍.
Please may I ask what motor you are driving And tyres Thankyou lovely video x
An Audi with Nokian Hakkapeliitta winter tyres. Thank you!
@@nic4x4cam92 fanx mishter
i worked for Derbyshire highways at chapel en le frith in the 80s, this was a regular thing from November to April, and the roads where kept clear all the time.
Was this beast from east year? As I drove round High Wycombe in my little Suzuki Wagon R no problems but plot twist it had 4wd lol 😂
In 1982 on January the 11th it was -27°C in Angelsey and the snow was up to 5ft deep in places.
well if you would have watched the video before you commented, where the JCB was digging the snow on the road, it was about 10 feet deep.
NIC4X4 CAM
Why the aggression buddy?
It’s your title that’s misleading, not @will_adamborn ‘s...
Thats the snow i remember and we would still get to work
Yup, when little had to walk 6 miles to school in snow like that if not deeper, back in 60's
In UK storm of the century, in USA it's a summer breeze.lol
yanks always trying to be funny :D
@@nic4x4cam92 bit of snow let's run lol.
62/63most birds never had the strength to fly those that survived had to walk
Yes, next you'll be telling me it got so cold it rained liquid nitrogen.
I got to get me a set of those tires cause wow lmao!
nokian hakkapeliitta ... made in Finland for Scandinavian winters.... they're good
Very competent driving - cool as a cucumber.
Would be nice to know what road it was and what vehicle he was driving.
the road is A44 near The Fforest Inn, and the car is an Audi with some proper winter tyres
Hello - I live 120 miles north of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We hat a week in January were the average temperature was -35c before any wind factor. Even after periods of rain and warmer weather the snow comes to my armpits in the wood. We can get up to 20 to 30 cm in a single night. We have two seasons: winter (6months) and the others. I know that you are not equipped to handle snow but I have never see a backhoe used to clear snow. Snow plots mounted of pickups (4x4), 10 wheelers (6x6) with front and side plows, Snow blowers on small tractors, on those big farm tractors, payloaders, road graders. In Quebec snow tires are mandatory. I have a big SUV so I have room to transport:t a chainsaw (trees fall because of the snow and ice), chains, pulleys, a come along, a high lift jack,heavy duty booster cables, heavy duty booster pack. I keep snowshoes, extra winter boots, parka and other clothes. I also have candles (heat), energy bars, bottle water. Sometimes to get to the cottage I have to park my SUV along the county road. Generally small country roads are 44 ft wide. I put on my pack sack and snow shoe to the cottage get the big fireplace going and then clear the barn door put in a spare battery (fully charged not frozen) in my tractor. I plow my own road with my 20hp V2 AWD articulated Huskavarna tractor. The snow blower is 42in wide which a minimum to clear the lane, parking areas, access areas. Well we are used to it and in general snow storms do not affect us to much. My SUV is an important part of my winter driving. It’s an All Wheel Drive (AWD) 6 cylinder 3.3 litre with double overhead cams. From this video I can see that the snow you get is challenging. The comment about farmer’s clearing part of the roads is well founded. The have the tractors.
cool story bro...
Thanks for giving us an interesting and highly detailed insight into Quebecian winter driving. You confirmed that it's not quite as straightforward as some RUclips armchair experts would have us believe.
Man I want to get to Ware you live in Quebec,I would love to live there,I just love winter,one day I will , Canada I think is god's country,and it's. Calling my name,right now I live in the mountains of north Carolina and,witch can be cool,we get are share,but nothing like you guys.
Didn't mostly strong winds create these steep snow drifts. It was deep but the gale force easterly winds piled snow amounts to make things look deeper.
That's exactly what happened
Looks like a normal New England winter. Now, what vehicles have I owned? 2.3 escort 3- that was actually good for a 2wd, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru (+truck), Subaru (+ different truck), Subaru, Honda Ridgeline (truck, mostly, sort of).
Gave up my Forester, it was a 98 and got a Kona 1.6 Turbo. It’s not a Subaru, but that baby can fly. I’ll probably be leaving The Lower Hudson Valley for Florida anyway.
My car could not handle that. Good driver
I fell asleep, did anything happen?
you kind of snored loud...other than that, no
Love to go down their in my group b Audi Quattro
What great quality video, any ideas what camera is used? If I had an Audi and that snow locally, I'd do exactly the same thing...snow ain't as much fun on two wheels though! :)
it was a GoPro Hero 6
@@nic4x4cam92 Cheers 👍
Do they have snow removal crews in great Britain? I live in Florida I haven't seen snow in 40 years. We just have hurricanes here
Marimilitarybrat Not sure if they have them in Scotland but we certainly don’t have them in southern England. We very rarely get snow and if we do it’s about 1 - 2 centimetres deep! If they expect snow the council grit the roads (think you call the council the municipal services). I remember one year around 1986 when we got a lot of snow in the south and it was about 40 centimetres deep even in Central London. I saw they had snow in Las Vegas recently. A very rare occurrence!
AUDI's best comercial :)
Audi was always known to perform well on snow :)
NIC4X4 CAM as will all cars, it depends on the depth of the snow, with the modern cars and their plastic under shields, you end up tobogganing,
And yes, I do have a Audi Quattro .
Where i lived, if was so bad, that the salt trucks had trouble getting through. I lived in Presteigne, in Wales. The town had no cars anywhere. The pubs in the town were full. The streets were full of kids playing. and I remember a man with nothing but shorts on, while drinking a vodka on his roof. I'm not even joking. But it was really cosy and nice. The log burner was on, snow was falling. The pubs were somewhat cosy as well. I miss it tbh
where this was filmed was not so far from Presteigne, and that winter I was working a lot in Hereford - Craven Arms area
So did the first fella say you will not get through?
Incredible, can't imagine what it'd be like opening the garden door and seeing a wall of snow.
Winter 62-63 far worse than this
well I wasn't even born then :)
Went down to London from N Wales, in an Austin 10. The snow was 10 ft high on the A5 at Cannock, but had an 8 ft wide cutting for one stream of traffic to pass. (No motorways then.)
Blizzard of 1978: Rhode Island was frozen solid for ten days.
Is Rhode Island in Britain?
I remember that winter. I was 16.
Drives way too fast for conditions.
It's speeded up .
@@richiesquest3283 no, it's not.
@@nic4x4cam92 perfect example of correct driving in the conditions
@@brianclark8159 Thanks!
Me nems farzad
Thanks good vid.
Ye an me nems farzad.
lol this just looks like an average winter in Consett, Co. Durham in the north of England.
I'm sure someone has already asked,but i got tired of going through the comments....which part of the U.k. was this filmed??? Answers please..🤓
It was on A44, you can see in the video at about 1:35 - 1:55 I'm passing the Fforest Inn on the left, (that's not a typo, that's how it's spelt, it's probably Welsh), where some cars and lorries are stopped, you can find that Inn on google maps. So it was between the Fforest Inn and Llandegley village on A44.
@@nic4x4cam92 cheers for that 4X4, here in cheshire east the "Beast" never really lived upto expectations,i should know 'cos i went wild camping in it and all i got was a soggy tent and wee bit of snow. Thanks for giving me a better perspective on your brilliant vid. A.T.V.B👍
@@fraserconnell21 definitely some parts of Britain have been hit harder
Incredible. Where was this? Had no idea it'd been so bad. Hoping for the same this winter.
Honestly, I learnt more about the psychology of the uploader being unable to accept constructive criticism, than anything else.
Constructive criticism is good. Knowing how to accept it is even better. Nice snow all the same.
most of the "constructive criticism" which you are talking about was plain insults and unfounded "accusations" that I was driving too fast, or I shouldn't be on the roads in those conditions or that I should have taken that family for a ride... but I will accept your "constructive criticism" because you're funny 😁
@@nic4x4cam92 You were going to fast when you approached the three people!
If one had slipped you would have been over the top of them!
@@ianmatthews3041 are you an expert on this? :D
@@nic4x4cam92 Probably driven in more snow than you through the years!
Not an expert by any means but stand by what I said!
If one of the people had slipped you would have run over them!
thank God I live in the west of Scotland ,We did not get this,but last year we had the pest from the west gales and more gales
Going by the comments here the UK had the climate of Canada 50 years ago. Either that, or nostalgia bias has taken over rational thought, and there is an irresistable desire for one-upmanship (why??). Hint: not all winters back in the day were cold and snowy, you are selectively recalling them because they were memorable, they were memorable because they were not normal and they were disruptive. Wet soggy (normal) winters like we had in the 1990's don't stick in the mind half a century later. Some of the claims of past winters on here are ridiculous.
next winter I couldn't have got a video like this even if I wanted
Was this in February 1982? In West Wales we had 10feet drifts!
March 2018
We have people who go out in their cars just wearing a t shirt and jeans .🙊
Zoe Taylor there called dik eads
Just ur average winter in america
your average winter in many parts of the world... and I'm sure you mean ... some parts of America
Where on earth were all those people walking to?I would never leave my car ,I hope they made it home safely ,I remember winter's like that I'm a southern softy now.
Winter of '77 worse than that - 52" of snow in 24 hours on January 11 in Upstate NY. I used my CJ-5 with a Meyers Hydroturn plow to plow driveways and parking lots and made a bloody fortune!
What's US got to do with Britain?
@@nic4x4cam92 Lots, comparing dedicated snow removal equipment in the high latitudes of NY (not anywhere near NY city). I used to drive a Chevy C-60 4WD dump with salt/sand spreaders with an 8' Meyers hydroturn plow with wing plows that could clear a two lane road in one pass (and we had LOTS of those trucks). Britain may be higher in latitude than NY, but seeing a tractor trying to clear a road that is a bit much for it? 6' to 8' drifts were nothing to clear for us, but I think that Britain should spend a little more on heavy duty trucks that can mount snow plows in case of need. I hear from a friend in Wales you do not use salt but cinders and calcium carbonate to get rid of ice - wish we did because salt rots out our vehicles very badly. You should be glad that the Gulf Stream follows along your coastlines or you would be colder and snowier. With natural "climate change", this might change a bit. We do not believe in man caused climate change at all. Such rot!
Brilliant video 😎
Where is this?
A44 from Fforest inn to bend on Radnor Forest heading towards Penybont .
I would imagine in the UK many don't put on snow tires, so driving must be more dangerous when it snows
I do put on snow tyres and they make a huge difference
Todd Lavigne Yes I would agree. Certainly in southern England we don’t have snow tyres as we rarely get snow. My BMW is hopeless in the snow so I don’t drive when it snows but take public transport to get to the station.
winter tyres would solve that problem. There are plenty of BMW driven in Scandinavia and other European countries where the roads are covered in snow and ice. They're doing fine, with the right tyres
Now....that was as interesting as watching paint drying !!
F Morant Why click on it then? I enjoyed it as so did a lot of other people. Perhaps your mind is wired differently.
I'm glad you kept nice and warm unlike the family you cruised past ?
I have drove on roads like that in my life time and never again
. I always refused to even start the engine when the snow comes down , like that.
Because you could be paying extra insurance for years because of a silly skid. It's cheaper to just stay at home. And if you need to go anywhere, you can use a taxi. But there again I live in the town where roads are gritted. Only the side roads are like this " well not as bad .🇬🇧
That is a lot of snow, but it could be misleading to me. I don't really see a lot of ditches or snow fencing. Low and unprotected roads can drift up quickly.
1982 with 20 feet drifts ! Probably the biggest snow in Britain
the BIGGEST snow? The MOST snow for goodness sake.
It's about the size and height not about amount :D
still completely WRONG. Size and height? You say DEEPEST snow. Not biggest.@@nic4x4cam92
I tend to say deep if I walk in that snow and it's up to my knees or waist. When I'm on a road and the snow on the sides of the road is as high as first floor I tend to say big.
NIC4X4 CAM high, not big.
thx, i agree!
well im getting on 67 and never seen roads that bad in the uk and yes i would have offered that family a lift
Looks like they were out enjoying a nice walk in the snow, not stranded!
I'm 61 and have seen plenty of roads here in Northumberland like this in a 'bad' winter 😉😉
you aint been very far in the uk
Not a lot to shout about here in West Suffolk this time around. I was away on holiday when it happened in 2018 . Much to my disappointment that I didn't see/witness it ☹.