{"id":160,"date":"2006-10-31T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=160"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T11:32:06","slug":"snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posted on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/2006\/10\/31\/snow\/\"><strong>31 October 2006<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 1987, Southend was cut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The snow started on the Saturday evening. I was in a pub in Great Wakering, drinking beer with a pal. We cycled there and he fell off his bike on the way back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a curry at his place and I then made my way home, about 5 miles in the snow. It snowed all night and by Sunday morning there was about 8 inches lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That evening, at around 7 p.m., the temperature in my garden dropped to -14 deg C. My sister, who lives about 8 miles inland in a shallow valley, recorded -18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About midnight Sunday the real snow started. By 2 a.m. Monday everything disappeared. I walked into work the following day and every step the snow was over my knees. I measured the depth at 19\u2033 as a uniform snowfall. Other people came to work on their skis. The children\u2019s school was closed for a week. Once the snow on the pavement outside our house had been compacted, you could lift it in ice bricks 6\u2033 thick. We made an igloo in the back garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the following Saturday evening a snow plough had worked its way down the dual carriageway to the north of the town and had cut a swathe about 7 feet wide through snowdrifts 6\u2032 deep. The removed snow had been placed on top of the drifts. I cycled back to the same pub with an 8\u2032 wall of snow on either side of me. It was an amazing experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We drank beer and had a curry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus \u00e7a change!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on&nbsp;31 October 2006 In January 1987, Southend was cut off. The snow started on the Saturday evening. I was in a pub in Great Wakering, drinking beer with a pal. We cycled there and he fell off his bike on the way back. We had a curry at his place and I then made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentlemancyclist.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}