quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Maybe Ralph could give some advice on how to deal with a mere 15 inches of snowfall.
What do you mean...deal with? I don't see how 15 inches of snow could affect you...maybe it takes you longer to get where you're going...but it's certainly not life threatening...
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Mart it might not have wiped the form clean, but just switched to a different view. I believe it goes into a spreadhsheet kind of view for data entry. Selecting 'design view' might show the form again. Just a guess. I hope it works out for you.
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quote:Originally posted by Hades: I don't recall having a single day off for snow while i was at school. I feel dupped.
Me too - in the 1970s I can remember a few winters when there was more than just a smattering of snow. And I am talking about here in Britain rather than Germany when things would go tits up only on exceptionally bad days.
The health and safety thing may sound ever so slightly Daily Mailesque, but in a country where the server a pub tells you they don't do blue steak for such reasons I wouldn't be surprised if schools are closed because some halfwit thinks the fatties are going to roll over and die. Or be on the end of more snowball attacks because they are (a) a larger target and (b) a slow moving one.
FWIW, I live in a no-grit zone and there's no fucking way I am taking my RWD SLK out if the place is looking like a skid pan.
I will be "working from home".
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I'd applied some sort of filter, or sorting criteria. I clicked Remove Filter/Sort for everything and it's back to normal now. And I learnt how to order my entries properly, by date and by number alike, so that it works just right now. That has been bugging me for a whole year.
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quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: FWIW, I live in a no-grit zone and there's no fucking way I am taking my RWD SLK out if the place is looking like a skid pan.
Is this lifted from an Alan Partridge deleted scene? There's no way a real person would say this.
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I'm wondering what a no-grit zone is. Like, I don't get salt anywhere on my estate, but I can probably make it out to the main roads if I really try hard. Not in the MX5 though; in the Lupo. I wouldn't bother in the MX5. But then I live about a mile away from work so there's not really much of a reason to bother with the cars.
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My bicycle is RWD and it's very difficult to ride in heavy ice and snow. A RWD car must be twice as difficult, as it has twice as many RWs.
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Snorton does have a point to be honest - rear wheel drive cars and snow are not a particularly easy combination, especially if you have summer tyres fitted.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: I'm wondering what a no-grit zone is. Like, I don't get salt anywhere on my estate, but I can probably make it out to the main roads if I really try hard. Not in the MX5 though; in the Lupo. I wouldn't bother in the MX5. But then I live about a mile away from work so there's not really much of a reason to bother with the cars.
If things get shitty I'll take a photo.
We live in a cul de sac, and to get to the driveway and parking bays you have to traverse a road that sees very little traffic, let alone any salt. One little skid and you'll be scraping metal with any one of the cars parked on both sides of the road.
For days after the rest of the snow and ice elsewhere had cleared the road still resembled an ice rink.
I'd use the Astra, but the ABS doesn't like the cold and the fuse for the offside front headlamps blew at the weekend. I'd like to say I could walk to work, but I live a good few miles away and public transport is bollocks - not that anything would be running anyway if we get even a centimetre of the white stuff.
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Ah ok. Same sort of thing where i live then. I just assumed most places were like that to be honest. Does anyone get grit in local estates?
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quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: public transport is bollocks - not that anything would be running anyway if we get even a centimetre of the white stuff.
Bit rich to lay into the public transport when you've got two cars yourself - both of which are completely useless if there's so much as a slight cold snap.
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: Ah ok. Same sort of thing where i live then. I just assumed most places were like that to be honest. Does anyone get grit in local estates?
quote:Originally posted by Samuelnorton: It does - but even that and four hours of skid pan training might not be enough. Then there are the other people out there you need to worry about.
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I don't know who you're travelling with there Ringo, but she must weigh bloody loads. Look at how uneven the car suspension is.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: I don't know who you're travelling with there Ringo, but she must weigh bloody loads. Look at how uneven the car suspension is.
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