The weather pundits are ominously predicting a savage winter for the UK, possibly the worst in a hundred years and that snowfalls can be expected as early as next month.
A slender hope for Maidencombers is the protection afforded to us by the recognised 'micro climate' that exists in our privileged position.
However, I recall some desperate winters here in the early sixties when Maidencombe was cut off from Torquay, Teignmouth and Newton Abbot with snow drifts that defied attempts to clear by the council. I can vividly remember my dad placing breeze blocks in the boot of his rear wheel drive car to get better traction up Brim Hill and then clawing his way up the hill sideways like a crab. How about walking along Honey Lane level with the top of the hedge as the snow had drifted over six feet high?
If this prediction is correct, I can only echo the words of Del Boy: "Brace yourself!"
Saturday, October 12, 2013
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