I cannot put this into words really. Never seen winds like this. Insane out there and I believe we're only gusting to around 70mph here in Stoke.
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow
Behave yerself!
Yes, it's very windy - but we've had worse.
Took me almost 2 hours to get home tonight. Not because driving conditions were difficult, but because of the fe***n arsewitted decision to close off half the region's vital motorway network for rush hour. Quite why the authorities closed the Thelwall Viaduct and Barton Bridge to ALL vehicles is beyond me. Just close the bridges to lorries & larger vans and let cars continue to use them (like they often do on cross-Pennine routes).
Saying that, I despise traffic jams with a passion, so took the back roads route home. But every time I hit one a snarl-up that didn't move within a few minutes, I'd try another route. Ended up going down a potholed road over Chat Moss (probably passed near Kevin Bradshaw's house!!) before hitting another traffic jam back on the main road. Then another. Then another. I reckon if I'd have just crawled westwards along the M62, I'd have cut 15-20 mins off my eventual journey time. If I'd stayed on the A57, probably half an hour.
I'm guessing I'm in the minority for getting insanely angry at traffic jams. I feel homicidal toward all the other *****rs who've dared not stay on the gridlocked main road network, and instead are snarling up MY rat-runs.
Originally Posted by: RobR