how much longer did your journey from work take?

[matty.13]

just wounderd if anyone had the same trouble getting home from work as me today . my normal journey takes an hour by train , today it took 4 and a half hours and included a 4 mile walk . southeastern train are a joke .

 

[ricky s]

Matty, mate, know exactly what u mean my wifes trapped at Victoria as we speak, yep Southern service...!

 

[BTB 500]

Worked from home today

 

[matty.13]

sorry to hear that ricky . she will probley have the slowest train journey home ever as the trains are in a bad way at the mo. southeastern suck

 

[renault12ts]

Slept into-day, got up at 8-30, still made it to the office by 9. Love working from home.

 

[robpow]

It was a quicker than normal drive, 10 minutes as opposed to an average of 15-20 min.

 

[blue gnome123]

One of the folks that works for my wife still isn't home. left at 3pm and it's 9pm

Snow + southeast (surrey) traffic = chaos

 

[jonnyboy]

On a slight tangent, I was in hospital in Guildford today (at the top of a steep hill) for a minor operation on my ankle. Done as a day-patient but under general anaesthetic so not allowed to drive myself for a couple of days etc.
Mrs JB left me there to pop home (25mins) and do the school run. I woke from the op and at half 2 ish rang her to say to come back as quick as poss as there were a few snowflakes falling outside
3 and a half hours later I ended up signing myself out and hobble/shuffle about a mile and a quarter to where she was stranded in the centre of Guildford and had been for an hour and a half (been in transit for about 3 hours) due to the one and a half inches of snow that had paralysed the city.
I just could not believe what I was seeing, especially after last year around here.
Doubt I'll be doing any walking in the next few days juging by the state of my balloon-shaped ankle.
Cheers Guildford Council..........

 

[Howard]

I very nearly got stuck on the A3 at Guildford today at about 4pm

Gritters didn't seem to have been out , it was snowing hard and traffic was crawling , i honestly thought that if i stopped , i'd never get the car moving again. Very stressful.

Car booked in to have new rears tomorrow , they are on the stops

V8 + ungritted hilly snowy road + worn out tyres = misery.

ESP was in over drive even going slowly , couldn't feather the throttle enought to stop the wheels going ....

 

[NewMB]

Total chaos in Colchester this morning, as per usual and made even worse by the snow that arrived overnight.

Went to Leicester this afternoon and all roads up here were nice, dry and clear.

 

[moonloops]

Probably about 5 mins longer each way for me

 

[jonnyboy]

I very nearly got stuck on the A3 at Guildford today at about 4pm

Gritters didn't seem to have been out , it was snowing hard and traffic was crawling , i honestly thought that if i stopped , i'd never get the car moving again. Very stressful.

Car booked in to have new rears tomorrow , they are on the stops

V8 + ungritted hilly snowy road + worn out tyres = misery.

ESP was in over drive even going slowly , couldn't feather the throttle enought to stop the wheels going ....

My thoughts exactly. Snow has been forecast here to start on Tuesday for the last five days. It arrived bang-on schedule yet the area is immediately paralysed. It's fairly obvious to any layman that keeping the main roads gritted is good, but totally ineffective if the roads off the main road are impenetrable leading to massive jams of people wanting to turn left/right who cant as the turning (I'm not talking about tiny quiet terraces) is blocked.

So angry right now, there was no need for that today, none at all. There was no surprise snowfall at all, it was accurately predicted.

How many council employees/road-type crews did I see helping out in that horrific hobble?

Zero. Saw a couple of pensioners clearing roads though (for the range rover set to pass through.....)

 

[Ted]

Did it snow today then?

 

[Rayny]

My travel time home was about 20 minutes longer than usual (total 6 miles)
due to a BMW doing 5 mph on a flat straight road, and having to take a slightly longer than normal route to avoid an ungritted hill.
Sadly, I also ended up leaving work 25 minutes late due to a customer who is a BMW driver wishing to make a complaint at 20:55Hrs - but that is another non-story.

Todays result - one Mercedes Benz happy driver, two BMW drivers - one who cannot drive, and another who has nothing better to do than ring an insurer at that time of night to make a complaint.

Be safe and happy everybody..

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

90 minutes tonight instead of 30 minutes.

It's snowed on and off here today, but we still don't have much.

Black ice was the really hazard tonight.

 

[Charles Morgan]

A mate in Surrey took 23/4 hours to travel 6 miles on the A217 / A240 as no roads were gritted and cars abandoned all over the place. Not going to be fun tomorrow.

I worked from home as normal, popped up to Piccadilly for a reception and back this evening in normal time on the bus and tube. Thank heavens no snow was settling here.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

My friend set off from Dundee at midday Sunday and arrived home at Doncaster at 5 PM yesterday....

 

[shazchaudary]

worked from home today!