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For the first time in a couple of years we finally have some decent in snow in the Netherlands... and the entire country is DOWN!
30cm of snow and the Netherlands is done for. My school has given us 'snowfree'. The buses have stopped driving in the north and most of my lazy teachers have called in saying they can't come to school. I guess that's why we have snowfree.

The amount of traffic is insane, we're already in the top5 of all time traffic in the Netherlands, but it just keeps on snowing so maybe it will get even worse.
Pretty insane how a lot of countries deal with these conditions every day and cope just fine, but when it suddenly happens in the Netherlands we're just completely caught with our pants down and the country fails to function properly.
All trains have delays and are probably overly full, people are afraid to drive so they take the train.

I knew there was going to be some shit with my school so I just didn't bother coming in the first place. I spent my morning shoveling snow, which is something I've almost never done. It was actually fun. But I guess the novelty of that wears off fast though.

But enjoy the snow while it lasts, I know I will.

Sitting just west of Utrecht, 8 high so I can't really see if it's 5 10 or 30 cm of snow but yeah...Snow here too ^^ Already had free from work so meh, gotta go to the store though so I'll check it out later.

It was like that here in London last year, the whole city went mad didn't know what to do, travel was screwed.

They said it would be like that again, not yet though. I mean snow is a nice sight but boy does it f*** up my working life lol.

0 cm snow here which is good but I have to go to school .

one Farking week in a year it snows in the netherlands and im stuck in luxembourg an not at home in the snow

i live in the east of the netherlands but there's not even 1 cm of snow here

I'll swap my 40 degree summer for your winter, any day.

Furious wrote:i live in the east of the netherlands but there's not even 1 cm of snow here

Where excactly?

I also live in the east, near Arnhem and we have atleast 10 cm of snow here.

Me and my friend literally risked our life when we went on the scooters to school lol. We were almost hit by a car.

But snow is fun

GaGa wrote:I'll swap my 40 degree summer for your winter, any day.

No you dont, here in Sweden there have been a snowstorm for 2 days straight, if the roads isnt ploughed it is atleast 30cm snow. So damn annoying.

That happened here last year.
Now.... well for now it's snowed only a bit for now, prolly gonna get melted by tomorrow.

i've never touched snow

Snow ftw.
Like 15cm near The Hague.

10cm snow here in belgium

Just got some groceries and I reckon it's about 10 cm too here (Woerden, bit west of Utrecht).

I'm in Leeuwarden (north)
And there's about 40 (!!) cm here.
We can't go to school or even to a shop, so that pretty sucks.
But except for that, i love snow .

GaGa wrote:I'll swap my 40 degree summer for your winter, any day.

i'd do almost anything for a 40 degree summer right now.

show me some pics:P

here in Limburg its just 1 cm lol but im glad its not more coz than the trains will have tons of delays and i'll be never in time on my intership

XMoshe wrote:

Furious wrote:i live in the east of the netherlands but there's not even 1 cm of snow here

Where excactly?

hengelo

Not the best quality, but these are some pics from Friesland (northern Netherlands) from this morning.





It´s way worse now, at least 30~cm snow at some places and it's still snowing heavy.

It's still snowing here in Assen. I think we have like 20cm snow here. My hard efforts of snow shoveling have already vanished, so much more new snow falling all the time.

Tomorrow I have 1 hour class and then it's holidays, but I'm gonna skip that hour as well.
Merry Christmas everyone

It stopped snowing here.
Now there's a strong wind/snowstorm.
We can't watch trough our windows, but there's something like 35 cm left here.
Tomorrow we should've had Christmas Breakfast, but it's cancelled. Merrrrrryyyy Christmas!

Boskoop (near The Hague) only had about 5-7 cm's of snow.
They dealt pretty well around here with the snow. Going to school (6km over a dike along the river) just took the same amount of time as it always takes me. There wasn't any chaos on the roads in Alphen. But 5 cm of snow is to deal with.

First snow in October, usually gone by the end of May. I've got no shortage of shoveling snow. Well, we don't usually get over 100cm snow here, but when I was doing my military service up north..

Shadow wrote:First snow in October, usually gone by the end of May. I've got no shortage of shoveling snow. Well, we don't usually get over 100cm snow here, but when I was doing my military service up north..

You from Finland?

woutR wrote:

Shadow wrote:First snow in October, usually gone by the end of May. I've got no shortage of shoveling snow. Well, we don't usually get over 100cm snow here, but when I was doing my military service up north..

You from Finland?

Yes, sir.

Bah, 30cm ain't shit.

not much snow here atm, but -24°C. hrrr

WTF!!! i live in southern ontario (canada) and all i hear from everyone else is SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!! we have no snow!!! 3 hours up north: 100cm, 45minutes south: foot of snow, Over in the united states (INCLUDING TEXAS!!?!?!) SNOW!!! last year we had a paralyzing blizzard, WHERE THE HECK IS THAT LAZY BLIZZARD!!!!