Winter in Buckinghamshire

**mickg** · 22nd December 2009, 21:51

Anybody from Bucks?? What a nightmare with that snow. Got bk home 1.30am. Stuck in a traffic for 5h. Madness!!!

**bigmac** · 22nd December 2009, 21:55

I want snow !!!

**mickg** · 22nd December 2009, 21:58

Don't mind having a snow just Wycombe DC should put griters on the roads. Mains are ok but I live on the hill "Downley" and we r still strugling a bit a specily Mercedes and BMW's owners

Just bought snow chains on ebay hehe

**gtr1000** · 22nd December 2009, 22:02

Monday night - Basingstoke to High Wycombe, 9.5 hours.

Another mate of mine, Burnham (yes Slough, NOT Burnham on Sea, Essex), 6.5 hours.

**happypostie** · 22nd December 2009, 22:03

know the feeling m8 one of my bosses lives up in downley but he does have big vauxhall 4x4 montery

but was still finding it bad

**lilangel** · 22nd December 2009, 23:12

monday nite, milton common, near thame to wendover, 3hours 30 minutes, normally 25 min journey. proud of myself as made it up down a hill where people were abondoning their cars and up another hill past stuck bmws, audis, and my fav, audi q7.
good times

**SignumPhil** · 23rd December 2009, 12:41

Monday night?
Hatfield to just outside Luton (by the Parkway station) 1 hour 15. Across Luton -another 2 hours, then 40 minutes on foot after I abandoned the car at a relative's house and walked the rest of the way.
Nothing was moving anywhere. I finally cut through the airport, down a service road (where I almost got stuck on a hilly bit, but got through), avoided all the poor souls dragging their luggage along the various roads to try and get to a plane that wasn't going.
I gave up and left the car after almost banging into a car that spun in front of me on a downhill bit. I was pumping the brakes, trying to control the car, and stopped about a foot away from it. My options were take to the country lanes outside the town, sit in traffic, or take the walk home through some back lanes. I checked that I had boots, hat and gloves in the car, then called my wife's aunty and asked if I could leave the car on her drive, hung my laptop bag around my neck and set off for home.
We just can't do snow in this country!

Phil

**Rebellion8878** · 23rd December 2009, 12:48

Aylesbury is pretty bad half the main raods could do with being re-done.... and what makes me laugh we had a leaflet come through from the council about 3 weeks ago saying, 'this winter we are prepared' lol. I have seen the gritters out once, its a bit of a joke, and in regards to wycombe area I know a few people have just left there cars the other day near great missenden.