Travel disruption at Leeds Bradford Airport because of weather conditions (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

"spokesman said: Buses are sticking to main roads."
No they are going into ungritted Morrisons Enterprise Five, was most surprised.

"No AccessBus services are running in Bradford"
No, was one at Morrisons.

Just the stupid delivery drivers stuck in snow. Why why

He were a great baker were our Dad, but he never listened t'ut weather forcast. Up early, he was, every morning. But, he never worried about how the man who drives the snow plow gets to his work.

bd7 helper wrote:
Just the stupid delivery drivers stuck in snow. Why why

!!! KH !!! Even STUPID delivery drivers have a job to do and its more likely to be the stupid car drivers that make them have to stop and start every 50 yards.Bet you would be moaning bucket loads if the STUPID delivery guys said **** to this let them starve.

And no i am not a STUPID delivery driver

Generally the problem is drivers in vehicles which are not suited for these conditions. As well as some drivers just being plain stupid but somehow passing the driving test and think they can drive!

Vehicles with tyres at the bare minimum and vehicles that are poorly maintained getting stuck and skidding as the lunatic behind the wheel just gives it gas thinking worn tyres will grip! Dumb people would be better suited at a circus rather then behind a wheel.

Then you have the boy racers and the odd idiot who gets his 4x4 stuck because he has low profile alloys on it which look bling but are terrible for these conditions.

If you are out driving, drive slow and steady in a low gear and keep momentum....helps if you keep your distance.

Invest in snow tyres, you only use them three months a year and you'll get a fair few years worth of service out of them.

bd7 helper wrote:
Just the stupid delivery drivers stuck in snow. Why why

bd7 helper - that is without doubt the most ridiculous and pathetic post I have ever seen on here (and there have been plenty to choose from!)
The 'stupid' delivery drivers are just doing their jobs and trying to keep the country running and theshelves stocked!

Stan the Fan wrote:

bd7 helper wrote:
Just the stupid delivery drivers stuck in snow. Why why

bd7 helper - that is without doubt the most ridiculous and pathetic post I have ever seen on here (and there have been plenty to choose from!)
The 'stupid' delivery drivers are just doing their jobs and trying to keep the country running and theshelves stocked!

Yes, and they should use their loaf!

Remember everyone to check on your elderly neighbours. The forecast for Queensbury and much of Bradford is snow all next week as well.

Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Michael Manus wrote:
Remember everyone to check on your elderly neighbours. The forecast for Queensbury and much of Bradford is snow all next week as well.

Good serves you all right for being so stupid,stay at home and eat guacomoli!!

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Not heard of the "15 year weather cycle"....have you a link to an article about this?

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

just had a look at the Met Office records for Bradford in 1998....the winter of 97/98 was one of the mildest on record. Not sure what you are on about!

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

You had a lucky guess dell don't milk it (although I know I would if it were me).
At least if people are out sliding around in the snow they aren't using their gas which could apparently run out in under two days according to certain reports.

http://www.presstv.i
r/detail/294818.html


Although it may give people a taste of what life is like for those who can't afford to run their heating. Please look out for your elderly neighbours.

vaildpoint wrote:

Michael Manus wrote:
Remember everyone to check on your elderly neighbours. The forecast for Queensbury and much of Bradford is snow all next week as well.

Good serves you all right for being so stupid,stay at home and eat guacomoli!!

There is always one total nutcase with a sad life and sad comments!!

Stan the Fan wrote:

bd7 helper wrote:
Just the stupid delivery drivers stuck in snow. Why why

bd7 helper - that is without doubt the most ridiculous and pathetic post I have ever seen on here (and there have been plenty to choose from!)
The 'stupid' delivery drivers are just doing their jobs and trying to keep the country running and theshelves stocked!

yeah bd7 helper, stop lyyying!!

I had lots of jobs to do today, but didn't bother struggling with the car, and built snowmen with the kids instead, The neighbours did the same, so a few hours later when the snowplow and gritter came, they got up the street easily, and now it is clear for everyone. Not exactly rocket science is it? Anyway well done to the council - in atrocious conditions they've frankly done a great job!

But the stupid delivery drivers cause accidents because its bloody minus 3 outside not driving conditions on back streets!!!! For a takeaway walk to your local fast food simple

BigFigure wrote:

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Not heard of the "15 year weather cycle"....have you a link to an article about this?

He's not getting mixed up with the 11 year Solar Cycle is he? I've not heard of a 15 year cycle either. :-?

Michael Manus wrote:

vaildpoint wrote:

Michael Manus wrote:
Remember everyone to check on your elderly neighbours. The forecast for Queensbury and much of Bradford is snow all next week as well.

Good serves you all right for being so stupid,stay at home and eat guacomoli!!

There is always one total nutcase with a sad life and sad comments!!

nope mcmannnnuuuttts just sense stay at home and enjoy guacomoli, you must be from queensbuury mcnt

Well Bradford Council last night were horrendous. This snow has been forcasted for at least 3 days yet when i got the bus from Wilsden to Girlington it took 45 mins to get to Allerton ( and the road wasnt too bad til it got to Allerton )

And when we got to Allerton the bus said we had to wait to have to see if we could get through.. 4 hours on the bus and in the end had to get a taxi.. Even though a taxi refused to pick me up at 6pm as well.

In that time we had 6 gritters went past.. 5 with snow plows on the front 1 without and only 1 was gritting and none even snowplowed the road.

Its even funny that the gritter even decided to turn down a street and got stuck because it wasnt gritted.. Ironic a bit.

However on Allerton road by the time i ended up home at 10:45pm there was 12 buses on Allerton road. Yes 12 buses and yet all was told by Control they were not allowed to go up or down Allerton road because the gritters were not gritting the road. Maybes the council should be making sure roads are actually gritted and getting the snow plows out when its needed not driving around like idiots not doing anything.

Sand Dancer Lass wrote:
Well Bradford Council last night were horrendous. This snow has been forcasted for at least 3 days yet when i got the bus from Wilsden to Girlington it took 45 mins to get to Allerton ( and the road wasnt too bad til it got to Allerton )

And when we got to Allerton the bus said we had to wait to have to see if we could get through.. 4 hours on the bus and in the end had to get a taxi.. Even though a taxi refused to pick me up at 6pm as well.

In that time we had 6 gritters went past.. 5 with snow plows on the front 1 without and only 1 was gritting and none even snowplowed the road.

Its even funny that the gritter even decided to turn down a street and got stuck because it wasnt gritted.. Ironic a bit.

However on Allerton road by the time i ended up home at 10:45pm there was 12 buses on Allerton road. Yes 12 buses and yet all was told by Control they were not allowed to go up or down Allerton road because the gritters were not gritting the road. Maybes the council should be making sure roads are actually gritted and getting the snow plows out when its needed not driving around like idiots not doing anything.

You'd think as it effects First's business so much they would invest in ways of helping keep their routes open and allow the council to concentrate their efforts elsewhere. Surely a plough attatchment could be fitted to a bus?

BigFigure wrote:

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Not heard of the "15 year weather cycle"....have you a link to an article about this?

certainly have a link to it....

http:// www .dailymail .co .uk/news/article-420
509/When-winter-come
-shell.html

plus a brief excerpt from the article.....

The 15-year rule

Bill Foggitt, whose family kept meticulous meteorological records since 1771, was convinced seasonal weather followed a cycle.
Outstandingly hot summers, he believed, occurred every 22 years, while severe winters repeated themselves across a shorter, 15-year span.


For example, winter 1947-48 was followed 15 years later by 1962-63, and again by 1978-79 the winter of discontent, each having that 15 year gap, each having extreme weather conditions.

When I was younger snow was fun.... What's wrong with you all? Where's the fun gone? I've never seen so much negativity and moaning in my life..... Thank goodness I left the Bradford area 5 years for sunnier, friendlier and a more positive land! PS... Just enjoying a swim in my beautiful home city of Sydney... A place where people don't moan ;)

dellorri wrote:

BigFigure wrote:

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Not heard of the "15 year weather cycle"....have you a link to an article about this?

certainly have a link to it....

http:// www .dailymail .co .uk/news/article-420

509/When-winter-come

-shell.html

plus a brief excerpt from the article.....

The 15-year rule

Bill Foggitt, whose family kept meticulous meteorological records since 1771, was convinced seasonal weather followed a cycle.
Outstandingly hot summers, he believed, occurred every 22 years, while severe winters repeated themselves across a shorter, 15-year span.


For example, winter 1947-48 was followed 15 years later by 1962-63, and again by 1978-79 the winter of discontent, each having that 15 year gap, each having extreme weather conditions.

And for the astute mathemticians among you, yes the last 15 year cycle was 2010, when we had another bab winter, for some reason though this has decided to repeat itself, and the reason I predicted it was not the cycle in itself, but the fact that the weather conditions we are no seeing almost exactly match those of 1963, when it snowed almost continuously from boxing day until easter, and temperatures fell so low, that in Eastbourne and Thanet the sea froze over.

The weather conditions in question being an abnormally strong band of low pressure from scandinavia and siberia coming down to meet weak band of high pressure which would normally bring our spring weather, but the high pressure is not strong enough to force the low back and up away from us. This is exactly the same as happened in 1963.

RollandSmoke wrote:

Sand Dancer Lass wrote:
Well Bradford Council last night were horrendous. This snow has been forcasted for at least 3 days yet when i got the bus from Wilsden to Girlington it took 45 mins to get to Allerton ( and the road wasnt too bad til it got to Allerton )

And when we got to Allerton the bus said we had to wait to have to see if we could get through.. 4 hours on the bus and in the end had to get a taxi.. Even though a taxi refused to pick me up at 6pm as well.

In that time we had 6 gritters went past.. 5 with snow plows on the front 1 without and only 1 was gritting and none even snowplowed the road.

Its even funny that the gritter even decided to turn down a street and got stuck because it wasnt gritted.. Ironic a bit.

However on Allerton road by the time i ended up home at 10:45pm there was 12 buses on Allerton road. Yes 12 buses and yet all was told by Control they were not allowed to go up or down Allerton road because the gritters were not gritting the road. Maybes the council should be making sure roads are actually gritted and getting the snow plows out when its needed not driving around like idiots not doing anything.

You'd think as it effects First's business so much they would invest in ways of helping keep their routes open and allow the council to concentrate their efforts elsewhere. Surely a plough attatchment could be fitted to a bus?

I didn't just say it was a first bus so please do not attempt to place words in my mouth that did not come from there.
I said it was Bradford council's fault ( 6 time's gritter's went past only 1 actually gritted and 5 had snow plows on it but were not actually down. ) Oh and i have a picture of this from the front of the bus too and you can see on the pic that the plow part is not down either.

The whole council is a farce from start to finish when it comes to the gritting. This is not the first time its happened.. Last time it snowed they did not even grit Wilsden Lane or Thornton Road. Yet according to their website bus routes are always done first.. I'd love to know their excuse for them not being done now.

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Can you tell which two weeks to book off as holidays in August dellorri can't afford to go abroad this year ? :-))

Sand Dancer Lass wrote:

RollandSmoke wrote:

Sand Dancer Lass wrote:
Well Bradford Council last night were horrendous. This snow has been forcasted for at least 3 days yet when i got the bus from Wilsden to Girlington it took 45 mins to get to Allerton ( and the road wasnt too bad til it got to Allerton )

And when we got to Allerton the bus said we had to wait to have to see if we could get through.. 4 hours on the bus and in the end had to get a taxi.. Even though a taxi refused to pick me up at 6pm as well.

In that time we had 6 gritters went past.. 5 with snow plows on the front 1 without and only 1 was gritting and none even snowplowed the road.

Its even funny that the gritter even decided to turn down a street and got stuck because it wasnt gritted.. Ironic a bit.

However on Allerton road by the time i ended up home at 10:45pm there was 12 buses on Allerton road. Yes 12 buses and yet all was told by Control they were not allowed to go up or down Allerton road because the gritters were not gritting the road. Maybes the council should be making sure roads are actually gritted and getting the snow plows out when its needed not driving around like idiots not doing anything.

You'd think as it effects First's business so much they would invest in ways of helping keep their routes open and allow the council to concentrate their efforts elsewhere. Surely a plough attatchment could be fitted to a bus?

I didn't just say it was a first bus so please do not attempt to place words in my mouth that did not come from there.
I said it was Bradford council's fault ( 6 time's gritter's went past only 1 actually gritted and 5 had snow plows on it but were not actually down. ) Oh and i have a picture of this from the front of the bus too and you can see on the pic that the plow part is not down either.

The whole council is a farce from start to finish when it comes to the gritting. This is not the first time its happened.. Last time it snowed they did not even grit Wilsden Lane or Thornton Road. Yet according to their website bus routes are always done first.. I'd love to know their excuse for them not being done now.

Don't get your knickers in a twist love, Rolland wasn't having a go at you.
What's a plow btw?
{rolls eyes}

nowt fresh wrote:

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Can you tell which two weeks to book off as holidays in August dellorri can't afford to go abroad this year ? :-))

LOL what a merry quipper, but if on the off chance that's a genuine question, and the weather trends REALLY are following 1963, this might give you an idea of what to expect....

1963: (2nd - 5th August)
THUNDERY RAIN: WARM/SUNNY IN SOUTH ON MONDAY.

From the 2nd to the 4th (the holiday Sunday), the weather was generally dull with shallow depressions off southern England giving outbreaks of rain and scattered thunderstorms; rain was heavy at times on the Saturday with falls of more than 25mm in many southern counties. Bank Holiday Monday, 5th, saw an improvement in the south - some south coast resorts had more than 10 hours of bright sunshine - but as a depression moved northwards in the North Sea, there was prolonged and heavy rain in many northern districts with falls exceeding 50mm in parts of northern England. Temperatures overall generally above average; warm locally in the sunnier south on Monday.

dellorri wrote:

BigFigure wrote:

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Not heard of the "15 year weather cycle"....have you a link to an article about this?

certainly have a link to it....

http:// www .dailymail .co .uk/news/article-420

509/When-winter-come

-shell.html

plus a brief excerpt from the article.....

The 15-year rule

Bill Foggitt, whose family kept meticulous meteorological records since 1771, was convinced seasonal weather followed a cycle.
Outstandingly hot summers, he believed, occurred every 22 years, while severe winters repeated themselves across a shorter, 15-year span.


For example, winter 1947-48 was followed 15 years later by 1962-63, and again by 1978-79 the winter of discontent, each having that 15 year gap, each having extreme weather conditions.

Ah...dear old Bill... Let's see..1979+15 =1994....1994+15=200
9....(only 4 years out)

Everyone just look after your elderly neighbours clean there footpath, give them a warm cup if tea. And put a smile on they face

BigFigure wrote:

dellorri wrote:

BigFigure wrote:

dellorri wrote:
Isn't it strange how I predicted this a couple of months back when we had the last heavy snowfall, and told you all how I'd bought snowchains, and got ever so slightly mocked for it. Have none of you ever heard of the 15 year cycle of weather patterns, where winter is so severe, well this is it the fifteenth year in the cycle. Hope you all enjoyed your laughs back then, and that the snow doesn't cause too many accidents now.

Not heard of the "15 year weather cycle"....have you a link to an article about this?

certainly have a link to it....

http:// www .dailymail .co .uk/news/article-420


509/When-winter-come


-shell.html

plus a brief excerpt from the article.....

The 15-year rule

Bill Foggitt, whose family kept meticulous meteorological records since 1771, was convinced seasonal weather followed a cycle.
Outstandingly hot summers, he believed, occurred every 22 years, while severe winters repeated themselves across a shorter, 15-year span.


For example, winter 1947-48 was followed 15 years later by 1962-63, and again by 1978-79 the winter of discontent, each having that 15 year gap, each having extreme weather conditions.

Ah...dear old Bill... Let's see..1979+15 =1994....1994+15=200

9....(only 4 years out)

please note also the winter period spans the year 94-95 which then made the next 15 year cycle 2010-2011 as I made clear in my next post, and IF you'd care to check it out you will see 2010-11 was a very bad winter. I usually hesitate to quote WIKI, but as these FACTS are easily checkable elsewhere I can quite safely do so...

http:// en .wikipedia .org/wiki/Winter_of_
2010%E2%80%932011_in
_Great_Britain_and_I
reland

I then posted afterwards, that my current prediction of this bad weather was NOT based on the CYCLE theory, but on the fact that the current weather conditions almost exactly mirror those of 1962-63. Also as you point out the numbers, it should be 1978-79/1994-95/2010
-11,
which as you can see from the quoted article fits the pattern, This year however does not, but it repeats the conditions.

Is LBA safe to use in any case? What with the huge numbers of UFOs sighted in the vicinity of the Airport and clearly breaching their airspace with impunity, and followed by tight-lipped denial, it makes you wonder.

Another Landless Peasant wrote:
Is LBA safe to use in any case? What with the huge numbers of UFOs sighted in the vicinity of the Airport and clearly breaching their airspace with impunity, and followed by tight-lipped denial, it makes you wonder.

LBA is mysterious place. It suffers a form of weather, which I believe is called speed fog. I used to live near there and I've witnessed this - it's strange. The wind blows to gael force, but the fog remains resident. There are very few examples anywhere else in the UK featuring this phenomenon.

A well spoken and articulate gentlemen, back in the 1970s, once claimed he heard the fly-past of a Lancaster Bomber, during this weather pattern. From his experiences in the air force he said that the engine sound suggested that the pilot was attempting to land. Spooky.

I promise that this man was not a nutcase. I'm sure that the LBA is very safe for air travel, even after heavy snow. I do hope that we get more sunshine now, as we've not exactly been 'Sun Blest' recently.

the most unsafe part of the lba must be that affected by "idiot with lasers" syndrome. apparently it is a large problem when a plane had a laser pointed at the pilots face.
HE CAN'T SEE TO LAND!!