Due to advice from Warrington Borough council all Warrington high schools are closed tommorow due to heavy snow!!!

all primary schools as well,they will make a decision tommorrow whether to re-open thursday.
i've not seen it this bad for about 25 years.

I work in construction trade as a landscaper we have been laid of until next tuesday.

bit of bloody snow and this useless country grinds to a halt..

Its very rare we have snow this heavy its certainly the worse i've seen for many years so what should happen?...Buy hundreds of snow ploughs at the taxpayers expense and keep them in storage until it happens again...?

I tried going to work. Took me 30 minutes to get to our yard, (usually 10 minutes tops) the roads were horrendous and I don't see the point of battling around the north west trying to avoid all the idiots. It then took me an hour to get home.

Think I'll stay in bed tomorrow.

With a bit of luck my works will be closed tomorrow . Got sent home today at 1pm

Too much snow - can't cope, to many high winds - can't cope, to much rain - can't cope, to much heat - can't cope (not that happens that often) -can't cope, and the all famous leaves on the mine - can't cope.

Yes. And at the same time Warrington can fill in the corners and put a second tier all around the ground for the once in a blue moon occasion when we sell more than 13,000 tickets!

To be fair though, whilst the driving conditions were horrendous earlier they were far from impossible. Gradual acceleration and deceleration, leave plenty of room and copious quantities of common sense and all is well. Sadly there seems to be less common sense around than grit at the minute (especially the idiot down the road from us who seems to think his Focus ST is a rally car complete with snow tyres - I hope when the inevitable happens that there is nobody else involved).

I've got that weird mindset now. I don't know whether to just knob tomorrow off, or prepare myself mentally for a day at work.

I think the snow is pretty much done now, I'm thinking an overnight freeze in that, add the council have no grit left, the roads will be chaos.

I need a definition of 'snowed in', a criteria almost.

Hope college is shut too

Stage school you mean ?

Priestley are shut tomorrow. Don't know about the collegiate.

Well it's just my luck! I'm off all this week and used up the remainder of my holidays, but my fellow work colleagues were sent home at lunchtime today and some were snowed in so couldn't make it, but getting it as a paid day.

If the same happens tomorrow, that will be a day and a half in total. I'm thinking of going back on Monday and asking for the same amount of my holidays back!



Different year, same luck.

Due to the work i do,i ahve been laid off until Tuesday.Now my boss told i would be paid in accordance to the employment rights act 1996,He also said this works out at £21.50 a day. abit less than what i do get paid.I checked my contract of employment and its says nothing about pay, being reduced. just all the rules are laid out in the rights act 1996.I checked the the rights and it mentions nothing about taking a pay cut.In fact it says i should be on full pay.So how come my boss is paying me reduced when it states other wise.Just want to be clear on things before i speak to him.

Any help greatly apperciated.

I have been laid off due to weather

try gritting the dammmm roads and use some of the tax payers money...seen one gritter during this cold snap and he was parked up reading a paper and eating a butty...

No just buy snow tyres like most other European countries.. I have not been stuck yet.
Leave them on all year good in the dry wet & brilliant in the snow


Global warming get used to it

Global Warming?? It doesnt feel too warm

Snowed in yesterday, live on a hill and can't get the car out of the drive.

Even if I could the roads outside are full of abandoned cars.

I know this cos I went out and checked last night, falling on my booty several times.

So off yesterday and today.

I'm sorry but all of this "cant get to work/staying in bed/not even going to try to get to work" talk makes my blood boil!

I live in South Warrington....but I run a business in Preston. Yesterday I left from home at 6.15am for a journey that normally takes me around 45 mins (I normally leave at 6.30am to be here for 7.15 even though we don't technically open for business until 9.00) because I knew that the conditions would be bad. I arrived at work 3 hours later at 9.15 am.

This morning I left home at 5.45am and arrived in Preston at 7.05am.

If I can make it from South Warrington to Preston in an hour I'm pretty sure that people who have a far shorter commute to work can do the same....it's pretty simple really - just get your lazy backsides out of bed earlier!!!

I completely agree mate I've lived in the french alps for years in winter I don't stay in doors and say the roads are to bad you've got to get out like any other day get to work. And anyone who has been to the alps in winter will know what I'm on about.
I do have snow tyres and I'm in warrington at the moment its not that bad

Well a global warming Expert

said yesterday on the news its going to be warmer in summer colder in winter due to global warming.

Just repeating what he said didn’t catch his name

well done and I am glad you got their safely unlike many people who crashed cars or overturned lorrys. The roads were not safe for driving and sometimes you have to think about number 1, i would prefer to be off work for a couple of days unpaid than to risk my life slipping and sliding all over the roads. I drove from Padgate to Woolston yesterday morning to drop my little un off before work and it was the most horrible drive i have ever done in my 17 years of driving. Having then got stuck in the middle of my mum's road i decided that it would be safer and more sensible to stay in Woolston for most of the day.

i live near woolston park and the lane i live on is still really bad,yesterday i saw three cars spin out of control and mount the pavement,it really isn't worth venturing out unless it is a necessity and some of these nuggets out there need to realise that 20 mph on compacted snow isn't a match made in heaven.

It's just macho posturing. Of course, it's bloody dangerous. That's why the Ambulance Service were only responding to life-threatening incidents yesterday. If Kol and Pug want to risk their own lives, then go ahead, I hope they don't kill someone else in the process.

Oh, and global warming/climate change is not the same as weather.