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Some pictures from life in Blackwaterfoot (Isle of Arran).
Kitchen window Friday Morning
Driving the wife to work on Friday morning after the local farmers had cleared the road a bit.
Get to work (this is sea level).
08:30 friday morning and the first visit of the Sea King to the Kinloch Hotel Gardens to drop off mainland mountain resue teams, doctors and nurses to start searching for cars trapped in the drifts over night.
By 10:00 Friday morning the novelty value had worn off and everybody was into survival mode as the weather turned worse.
What we woke up to on Friday morning depth and drifting wise multiplied three fold over Friday and Saturday.
One of the coldest and most tiring weekends off my life.
The Mountain rescue got to my Aunt and Uncles farm at lunchtime on Sunday. On Thursday night, Friday morning their Barn roof came down on top of their Ranger, Defender and tow tractors.
Unable to say at the moment how many live stock have been lost between buried in drifts and the ones that got moved into sheds/barns for the weight of the snow to then bring the roofs down on top of them.
As it is lambing/calfing season, every animal lost could in actual fact be 2 or 3 beasts.
Managed to get a lift to the boat yesterday from the Fire Brigade through the road blocks to get the ferry to the mainland.
Kitchen window Friday Morning
Driving the wife to work on Friday morning after the local farmers had cleared the road a bit.
Get to work (this is sea level).
08:30 friday morning and the first visit of the Sea King to the Kinloch Hotel Gardens to drop off mainland mountain resue teams, doctors and nurses to start searching for cars trapped in the drifts over night.
By 10:00 Friday morning the novelty value had worn off and everybody was into survival mode as the weather turned worse.
What we woke up to on Friday morning depth and drifting wise multiplied three fold over Friday and Saturday.
One of the coldest and most tiring weekends off my life.
The Mountain rescue got to my Aunt and Uncles farm at lunchtime on Sunday. On Thursday night, Friday morning their Barn roof came down on top of their Ranger, Defender and tow tractors.
Unable to say at the moment how many live stock have been lost between buried in drifts and the ones that got moved into sheds/barns for the weight of the snow to then bring the roofs down on top of them.
As it is lambing/calfing season, every animal lost could in actual fact be 2 or 3 beasts.
Managed to get a lift to the boat yesterday from the Fire Brigade through the road blocks to get the ferry to the mainland.
Crap how cold is that!?
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