 Poster: A snowHead
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Was going to travel out today, but last week put it back to tomorrow, but that could still prove to be a little difficult!
Orange Alert for 29 departments and all roads from Pas de Calais south to Paris are impracticable.
Though even if you're flying today many many flights cancelled.
This is the view out of the house this morning over the beach and prom
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Weathercam, keeping an eye out ourselves and hoping that things improve by Thursday morning.
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Weathercam, mmm we are off out Friday, I have not seen the auto routes closed for long even when its blizzard conditions
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"La Basse-Normandie était quasi paralysée par la neige mardi." "Aucune autoroute n'est praticable" dans la Somme, Il est fortement déconseillé de prendre la route", "
La Belgique quasiment paralysée par la neige: plus de 1500 km de ralentissements"....
"Lower Normandy was almost paralyzed by snow Tuesday." "No highway is practicable" in the Somme, it is strongly not recommended to take the road ","
Belgium almost paralyzed by snow: more than 1500 km slowdowns "
Le dauphine has quite a nice timeline on the "crise"! : http://www.ledauphine.com/actualite/2013/03/12/neige-29-departements-en-alerte-orange-68-000-foyers-prives-d-electricite
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Weathercam, great photo. My son in law's school is closed (Hove) so he's at home catching up with his marking. I am driving out late Thursday because I have a medical appointment in Goring at 5.30. Hope to get to Calais then stop shortly after for the night.
I have rarely seen autoroutes closed but it's not uncommon to have to drive for mile after mile in convoy behind snowploughs with only one lane practicable. They tend to shoo all the Poids Lourds off into service areas when it's like that.
It looks as though the snow should be gone by then - just wet and possibly foggy. Still not nice travelling conditions - fog, particularly.
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pam w, fortunately we are only driving to Epernay on Thursday, so we should be driving in daylight which at least makes it a bit more bearable. We suffered the snowplough convoy between Troyes and Calais on our return journey in January.
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About 400 cars is trapped on the roads in Basse-Normandie since 6pm yesterday, and its still snowing and will so do to tomorrow morning atleast
Stay safe please,,,
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All Eurostar trains cancelled for rest of today - blaming conditions in northern France. Never seen that before.
And I also must add - the French knew it was coming. I saw loads of warnings on the French weather and train websites yesterday.
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Weathercam, love the pics, especially the second one. good luck with your journey. in fact good luck to everyone trying to get around.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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the French knew it was coming
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it helps to have warnings, but when such unusual snowfalls happen, they can't be dealt with. They can be dealt with in the Alps because every little dorp has loads of snowploughs. Heavy snow brings northern areas of France to a standstill like southern areas of England - but the latter are so much more densely populated that the traffic snarl ups can be a lot worse.
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it helps to have warnings, but when such unusual snowfalls happen, they can't be dealt with. They can be dealt with in the Alps because every little dorp has loads of snowploughs. Heavy snow brings northern areas of France to a standstill like southern areas of England - but the latter are so much more densely populated that the traffic snarl ups can be a lot worse.
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You know it makes sense.
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We're staying in La Grave Thursday night with friends so what's the betting the Col will be shut 
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Have you preinformed the hospital, PGHM and the resort so they can prepare in advance?
Assuming you get anywhere near la Grave that is.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hells Bells, We will be following/leading you on Thurs, setting off from near Southampton, but stopping near Cambrai that night; edge of Jura near B en B Fri night, and then Montgenvre Sat, over to SC on Tues. Honk your horn if you pass a noisy Impreza estate going slowly and to trying get more than 20mpg !!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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cstreat, I'll look out for you as we pass you on the Col then  . Did you say you were in SC for a lesson? I was going to suggest you PM your mobile to meet up.
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RTL2 news said today that 'millions' of people are stuck in their cars across France but the TGV style train services were meant to start up again at 8am this morning.
Such a contrast in the alps, yesterday we drove to Chamonix and back in bright sunshine.
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Weathercam, sounds horrendous, I hope you are out of there soon.
26km of traffic jam according to autoroute website.
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Weathercam, just been watching you on iTele... Seems the cars are being encouraged to weave around the lorries, but the snowploughs are driving the wrong way up the motorway!
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People have been stuck for 36 hours now on the A1[/img]
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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pam w, we've booked onto the ferry tomorrow for the first time in ages. Time to stock up on the pork pies I think and cross fingers tightly.
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Time to stock up on the pork pies
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a traffic jam would be more bearable with pork pies.  I shall be driving alone and am already planning for a substantial stock of food and drink and a duvet. Just in case.
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, our food of choice for a long drive. They don't go soggy like a sandwich does.
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If we get across the channel and there's still jams we may just head for a local hotel and skip the planned stop in Champagne. We're meant to be heading to Beaune on Friday, so it won't be too much of a drive.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Still stuck, and have not moved nigh on four hours now!
About half an hour ago two transporters went up the hard shoulder, so maybe a couple of trucks are stuck up ahead as traffic is flowing on the other side.
Black ice scenario would make sense though as have experienced a sinmilar situation on the m25 once when the trucks could not get up the drag before clacketts lane.
I'll post as and when things happen or as and when if we do get moving and I can't stop to update!
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Black ice everywhere
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 Hmm. I shall keep monitoring this thread - very useful to have first hand info from the poor beggars stuck out on the road! It wouldn't be a huge problem for me to postpone and I will definitely do that rather than risk a lot of black ice - I'm not keen on fog, either.
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pam w, if we cross on time tomorrow we should be in France by 4pm, so I will post an update when we do. Hopefully things will have greatly improved by then.
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Another transporter has just gone up the hard shoulder, which is starting to look an option to me, but Mrs says no, she also said no to me getting my push bike out the back.
In fact just given the hard shoulder a go as quite a few others were doing it including a British Bentley, but only went half a mile or......
Hold on might be moving
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Are the roads themselves actually clear of snow??
Is it just the gridlock of traffic that is causing the problems or are some roads still blocked by snow?
They look fairly clear from the photos above.
We set of early saturday morning and i'm really starting to get worried now.
Phil
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qwertyuiop7, I doubt they will let the situation continue for that long. Once the drivers are returned to their vehicles it should hopefully be cleared relatively quickly. The roads on the itele report linked to above seem to be clear of snow, but there could be black ice.
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30cms of powder is forecast for sunday/monday in Sainte Foy.
Me stuck in a traffic jam outside Arras, missing out on the powder fest, just my luck 
Fingers and toes crossed for all those driving down this weekend
Phil
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qwertyuiop7, powder forecast for Serre Chevalier too, so I am going to get through Northern France by then however I do it.
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