Currently is your car usable?

It is but haven't risked it for 2 days and the roads are too icy. The schools have closed round here today and I've managed to do a Tesco on-line shop so we are ok for a little while. Good luck getting the kids - take care on the pavements.

Two wheel drive and been everywhere in it. Should be part of the test on a track at least three miles long with bends to gain a licence Was a mechanic for long enough on land rovers with four wheel drive but i don't think more than one in a hundred knew how to use it properly so are wasting there time. Its not just a lever or switch, its understanding a third differential so most are in two wheel drive anyway because the owners have no idea what kicks out on spin etc etc Mostly wasted vehicles for show only. I have my off roader for exactly that,off road.

My car is being used on a daily basis helping to pull others including a tractor out of the snow problems they've encountered in and around our villages. Being a 7 seater it's also been widely used for supermarket shopping with neighbours who daren't take their cars out, quite a few of them are elderly, cars and humans! I'm not the only person doing this around North Yorkshire, there are a lot of us in rural communities but the two things which link us are a willingness to help people and the fact that we have 4x4 cars which will go almost anywhere. As for the 4x4 detractors, no-one has said a word in weeks, well apart from the odd townie who doesn't understand rural living anyway.

Can probably get it off the drive but can't get it up and out of my road. I live on a hill and would need a run up to get up the hill and out - that would mean reversing off the drive, down the road a bit and then foot down for 100 yards uphill!

Nah - don't think I will try it! Stay where I am - I work for the NHS as an HR administrator so I don't think it will close down cos I am not there!!!

I've been out and about a few times in my car. I'm in Manchester, the main roads are okay but I have to be extra cautious on the side streets because it's lethal. Sadly, the pavements have been that treacherous underfoot that I felt safer in my little car, rarely made it out of 1st gear or over ten mph but I survived. I have seen some spectacularly stupid driving though, however careful you are you can't account for some eejit behind you that wants to bully you down the road.

Absolutely no chance of using it till the snow clears a bit. The plough finally came down the road and it removed the loose stuff, but left all the compacted snow and ice behind. The snow that it moved, was thrown up against all the cars, so they are now even more buried. I don't know where I could chuck the snow anyway.

:) possibly Kepler 11 in Cygnus or HD10180 in Hydra. Of the two HD10180 is a lot nearer. an insignificant 127 mild years off. (it might nevertheless take a zillion years to get there with purely the same old regulations of physics at our disposal) each of those stars has 6 shown planets. meaning (maximum probable) that they've a dozen or so genuinely planets a number of that could probable be in the Goldilocks zone. HD10180 in all probability has one, and its huge call is amazingly solar-like. we don't understand approximately issues like moons in different photograph voltaic structures. we are able to assume a similar regulations shop on with so "very very in all probability" is as stable as you will get.

Our car is usable. We can go out in it just fine - we just can't get it back up the hill to our house! The roads are like skating rinks, even the main ones, and the footpaths are a nightmare.

My battery is flat. When I tried to undo the screws on the top of it ready for charging, they were so cold that they snapped and fell inside. Just ordered a new one. Oh well, these things are sent to try us. LOL

Walking to school? Well done, look at the calories you burned off, make it a habit. LOL

My partner's taken his car to work the last two days, but had to walk on Wednesday, and I've noticed that 80-90% of the cars in my street haven't been out since the snow fell. I wouldn't like to drive down our hill in this ice - walking it is hairy enough!