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The Great Snow Of 82
Topic Started: February 8 2011, 05:55 PM (273 Views)
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To think i was snowed in for 10 days(Shankhill south Dublin) with any local shop sold out of everything after a day,great memories as a child.





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IN the big freeze of January 1982, temperatures dropped so low that home-heating oil froze in tanks and blocks of ice floated down the River Liffey.

Temperatures plummeted to -15C, and things were so bad that the Canadian government donated six snowmobiles to the nation.

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i remember it well i was 11 our village in wexford was cut off for a couple of days
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A few pics i found(not mine),but they dont really show how bad it was,my mother's car was totally covered by drift's,I had to dig our way out the front door d-r--oo-l-

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I was in Gloucester UK in 1982. I remember the snow very well. But more than that, I remember the cold that followed it. I think it got down to about -23 in the Gloucester and Cheltenham area. That would have been the night when the record for England was set in Shropshire. I think the UK record was reached that night too in Scotland.There were massive icicles outside the front door. I also recall the main road between Glos and Cheltenham being full of lorries with fires lit underneath the Diesel tanks. I believe it snowed non stop for about 28 hours in Gloucester. I took a lot of photos at the time. If I can find some of them, I will scan them and try to upload a couple.
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My folks were in Oz that year, they missed the snow. I remember the bread man and the milkman getting through the road (electric vans) they were jarred by the end of the day as everyone kept giving them a hot toddy as they made it through each place. No buses, snow drifts everywhere it was FANTASTIC.
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I remember it as a 6-year old out in north Co. Dublin. Cars buried under 10 ft drifts. I can remember climbing some of the drifts over the hedges and being almost high enough to touch the telephone wires. They choppered in supplies to nearby Oldtown, there was a photo of it in one of the newspapers at the time.

My sister went out by foot to the local shop, having to go across the fields as the roads were impassable. After two hours there was no sign of her, and my father eventually found her totally disorientated in the whiteout. Crazy stuff.
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