What are you all up to
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That's disappointing news TG but better to be safe I suppose.
I hope all of you who are away manage to keep warm and safe.
The wind was bitterly cold when I took the dog out a short while ago. My cheeks were tingling with the cold. (that's the ones on my face)
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Ground that is unusable is of no use to us, Tammygirl. That is why we are staying on sites that do have usable ground! All seasonal pitches are grass but we have never yet had a seasonal pitch cancelled because of the weather. If the CL in question can't cope with normal winter conditions then why advertise as being open all year?
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Sorry you can't travel TG, looks like quite a few of us will be in the wrong place tomorrow. We will ask for another night if it looks bad in the morning but we are hoping to get ahead of some bad weather in the SW on Friday.... Just the little matter of no on board water isn't helping. Have had a nice visit here so can't complain, sadly using up our Betty's rations very quickly.
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Trust me brue, at the moment stay put if you can. We have been out and about in Jeep today, not too far South of York and took in three motorway bridges, M1, M18 and the A1. All three were gridlocked this afternoon, crawling along at best.
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I think you are being a bit hard there Malcolm, how can an owner be held responsible for the weather.
By your own admission you were cutting up the ground coming in and going out on a daily and sometimes twice a day basis.
To be fair your seasonal pitch is a different matter, for a start it wasn't in winter.
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Tammygirl, sorry to hear about your cancelled flight, hopefully you'll get away by the weekend.
Feeling slightly cheated as only a dusting of snow here, but it's bitterly cold.
Brue may be safer to stay put, snow due further south tomorrow and very windy.
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So far so good with the water and draining here at White Water Park. I've both the aquarolls insulated and take the pump in every night. I had previously insulated all the undervan waste pipes and pour salt down the plug holes before going to bed, which seems to work. We've extended our stay till Sunday, cancelling our CL visit, up above Whitby, and then hopefully going down to York to Cherry Tree Cottage site. Should the roads still be bad we can always stay put till they improve.
We had a mixed day weather wise. Woke to more snow over night but fine and sunny but cold. Walked over the Barrage and round to the Retail Park. Traffic was moving well on both the A19 and A66, but we were told that it had been chaos early on especially coming from Darlington which had a lot more snow than we'd had. Another walk round the nature reserve and along the riverside path this afternoon, before the snow came down again. A day of contrasting conditions here, with another short blizzard just now.
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Sorry to hear about the delay in your holiday, TG. Hope that you are able to get away the next day.
Definitely a bit of a quandary for you brue. Hope that you manage to get home safe and sound before the snow arrives.
David, hope that you too manage to get home safely. It's better staying put seeing the conditions on the major roads down in Yorkshire at the moment.
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Thanks all, yes disappointing but at least it gives the road teams another day to clear the way. Bags are all packed and in the car as we expected a 4 am departure, so instead it will be a nice warm nights sleep and a sleep in tomorrow.
Car rental agents are being a bit difficult, saying that the car that has been booked and paid for will not be held over until Friday but let go, problem is that they dont have another car for Friday and they want another £100 to arrange for one through another company.
OH will phone car rental people in Lanzarote direct tomorrow, sometimes going through a booking agent just causes more problems.
Its for a 3 week rental so they had better not mess us about.
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I think it is just as well they said your flight is cancelled TG, it is absolutely foul here. The wind is whipping the snow off the roof, our windows are covered in snow, something we have never seen before, and we have foot long icicles hanging off the roof in places, again something never seen here before.
Our daughter down in the west end of the city has a 2 foot snow drift against her rear doors, the weather is coming from that side.
-5 degrees here now.
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Hope that your OH can get the hire car sorted out.
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The warden came over to tell us that the site taps are all frozen except one tap in a sunnier part of the site, so we can still get water. However, the water in the Aquaroll froze so we simply switched over to using the onboard tank. So no problem getting water through the taps in our caravan because the onboard tank is working fine. I was even able to have a shower this morning. The only concern was whether the water would drain from the shower base.Fortunately, it drained without any problem at all. However, the sink and washbasin drains are still blocked with ice.
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He already writes about it all day, on this thread.
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Well I ploughed, not the snow variety 😉, through the posts on here and am still surviving, just!
Sitting on the decking in a fairly strong cool breeze under grey skies, but I'm in shorts and t-hirt. Nothing like the conditions you folk are enduring. Stay warm and stay safe.
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About 7.00pm I went to the station to pick up my son and was surprised that it was -6 degrees. I don't remember temperatures that low here in MK but it must have happened in the past. The strange thing is that whilst we have had a bit of snow which is still on the verges the roads are completely dry. Apparently the air we are getting at the moment is very dry. On the One Show tonight they were talking to a local in Siberia and she showed Matt her phone, it was -34 degree and it sometimes drops to -50!!! So perhaps we are not as badly off as we think.
David
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same old same old! Whatever happened to the old practise of bringing in the Aquaroll and pump overnight? Some caravans even had an internal pump connection inside the van (Usually inside the shower compt) so that you didn't get frozen up!
I guess decades of mild winters and no frozen pipes stopped that.
TF
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20th December 2010 On the way home from work.
Changed the Saab to a BMW in between.
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We have done all the right things although we don't need an aquaroll but the very low temps and conditions have frozen up things not frozen before! I see the SW will experience similar conditions soon looks like we will stay put today. Still snowing here in York.
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Just got up and still snowing here in Brighton.
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The Gatwick seasonal pitch will be all through the winter, Tammygirl. The cancellation of Lancing CL booking by the owners meant that I had to commute all the way from Redhill to Lancing everyday I was on the work rota, a distance of 50 miles each way totalling 100 miles at huge extra cost in fuel and site fees. That's hardly fair, is it, especially as the Lancing CL is supposed to be open all year. There was no indication in the site details that it was subject to closure because of adverse weather.
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Didn't get much more snow but the Easterly wind howled all night, currently gusting over 40mph. Temperature, as I write is -6C with a wind chill of -16C. Looking at the sky over the sea it looks like we are about to get dumped on again very shortly. Will get some logs in shortly and that will be the limit of my outdoor activity.
Stay safe and warm folk, remember discretion is the better part of valour
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M perhaps you had better refer to these. Extract from the seasonal pitch T&C's you and myself signed up for.
Those for standard bookings are similar.
9.2 In the event of a hazard or emergency, such as fire, high winds, flooding or water logging, the Site Staff may need to move, or arrange for the Outfit to be moved, immediately to another area or pitch on the same Site or off the Site. In such circumstances, the Site Staff will, if possible, give you as much notice as possible.
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