Lovely little video of driving through the Yorkshire Dales

[DanaC]

Found this on Youtube and figured I'd share. This is technically North Yorkshire, but prior to the boundary changes it was classed as part of the West Riding of Yorkshire along with the part of Yorkshire where Sundae and I both live. It's probably an hour's drive from my house.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's why you need a motorcycle, Dana.

[Beestie]

Nice countryside. I wonder, though, how they plow snow off the part of the road with a wall on each side.

[lumberjim]

They don't get much snow, I think.

The green is so intense.... I guess because they get 17 minutes of sunshine a week.... Lovely though.

The woman filming is a travel agent from Florida. I had this whole next scene brewing in my mind where the two young women (young rich milf and her daughters' British opere) stop for a picnic at that park and homina homina.... But then I read her bio on LinkedIn and ruined it for my self.

[DanaC]

We get snow - they mostly grit the roads rather than plow them And a road like that might well end up closed for a few days.

[lumberjim]

Do you? I thought I remembered Sundae making a big deal out of getting a dusting one year. Are you much farther north? Or higher up?

[limey]

Major regional variations. You're more likely to get snowed in in a Kentish* village (south-east England) than I am on my Scottish island.




*Derivation of Kent is, allegedly, exactly what you think it is ...

[DanaC]

If I recall aright, Sundae was complaining about the vale of Aylesbury missing out during the country-wide white out.

Also, she now lives in the shadow of the Chevin, so the weather there is a little different to my part of west yorkshire. The Chevin has its own little micro-climate. She may have missed out on snow again, whilst the rest of the region was snowy.

The snow here isn't as bad as it is in America when it gets hit hard, but we get some most years. Some years worse than others. I've lived in this village for over a decade and I've only been properly snowed in two or three times. Mostly, it lasts a few days or weeks - usually it's an intermittent thing. You'll get snow for a couple of days then it takes half a week or so to melt, then a week or so later you'll get another few days of snow.Occasionally, you get a bad winter where it goes on for weeks.