On 04/03/2018 19:05, Tim Watts wrote:
I walked 3 miles to work quite happily in snow bad enough to bugger up
most other transport.

I walked to school (*) and back for at least a week during the 62/63
winter because all the hills in the south wales town were sheet
ice so no buses were running. That would have been 3 miles each way.

(*) Aged 10, so pre-11plus.

We had no water for 6 weeks and then the 'council' came round
with a portable electric welding set (I think) and connected
it up to the stopcock in the road and in the house and melted
the ice.

Snow drifts were 15 feet high completely filling in some
rural roads and it took weeks to clear them.