Journey home after SUFC game

[For Us All]

Some more tales of woe from Blades fans.

 

http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/where-did-all-the-blades-end-up.37489/

 

Glad it wasn't us coming back from Sheffield!

 

Here's another sob story from Blades fan Danny Oxley?

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2888293/Stranded-drivers-rescued-cars-airports-forced-close-blizzards-cause-travel-chaos-UK-s-plenty-snow-ice-come.html

[andy jones]

Tumbleweed, clearly by travelling south you left the difficult driving conditions behind.

[Mcphee4Scotland]

Went upto Liverpool for a night out straight after the Vale game, which had been planned with a few mates for a while. Was debating whether or not to go with the weather conditions taking a turn for the worse. Took me about 2 hours from Burslem to Merseyside, basically twice as long as it would normally have. Stopped off at Knutsford Services en route.

 

M6 north was slow as expected from Junction 16 northbound. Wasn't really able to go much faster than 40mph for the whole journey, often going slower than that.

 

Still going off the comments from the Blades forums many of them have had true 'nightmare' journeys that they won't be forgetting any time soon.

[geosname]

Is the snow different than it used to be?

Do gritters need a months warning of snow before they can get out of the depots?

I realise more cars are on the roads but everything seems to come to a grinding halt with a couple of inches of white feathers... or is my memory of winters past faulty?

[Aussie Rules]

I had to attend a family party straight after the game, luckily it was at the first house after VP on Hamil Rd..:rolleyes:

 

Hop, step and a slide then? :)

[For Us All]

Is the snow different than it used to be?

Do gritters need a months warning of snow before they can get out of the depots?

I realise more cars are on the roads but everything seems to come to a grinding halt with a couple of inches of white feathers... or is my memory of winters past faulty?

 

There was plenty of warning but perhaps the council had a labour shortage on Boxing Day?

[TheJoker]

There was plenty of warning but perhaps the council had a labour shortage on Boxing Day?

 

They should have rang carl. The roads would have been clear in no time with the hot air that comes out of that lad

[For Us All]

They should have rang carl. The roads would have been clear in no time with the hot air that comes out of that lad

 

They didn't have time to ring,they were probably drinking tea and watching True Grit.

[Warren]

I drove back to the Wirral with my son and his Australian girlfriend who was experiencing this type of weather for the first time. I was lucky to have parked away from the ground and was able to get on the A500 and then M6 ok. But the snow made the journey home very difficult and it was very tiring because of the concentration needed as lanes disappeared and the precise conditions changed from place to place. The standard of driving was generally good with only a few people with no sense about. Quite an extra ordinary day - miserable light rain, heavy rain, snow etc.