{"id":2505,"date":"2013-01-22T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2505"},"modified":"2013-11-02T16:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T16:26:08","slug":"blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The forecast was for a little bit of rain and sleet early evening. Boy did they get it wrong! We were hit by a full-scale blizzard which started around 4pm, and the snow is still falling outside (more slowly now) at 11.30pm. It&#39;s mayhem out there and once again we&#39;re cut off from the rest of Brighton. <\/p>\n<p>The drive home over the top of the South Downs (usually a 10 minute hop) took three hours in the worst conditions I&#39;ve encountered in over 35 years of driving. Truly awful and dangerous conditions. Cars were struggling to get up the hills (some couldn&#39;t make it), and struggling even more not to tumble and slide down the other side (some couldn&#39;t make it). And there are a lot of hills in the space of two and half miles.  Numerous reports of accidents (some severe unfortunately) and general gridlock on many of the major roads in the area with road closures and an abundance of abandoned cars (including mine&#8230; I hiked the final mile home). Twitter and local news reporting delays of 5+ hours on some roads, and with temperatures dropping it&#39;s not at all certain roads will be passable in the morning. <\/p>\n<p>It all started so much more quietly. I managed to get the car out (a mistake!) and at lunchtime visited Falmer pond (on foot). I got a few nice shots, which I&#39;ll share.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pond_2201135751.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/crow_2201135832.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/gull_2201136043.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On my way back to work I spotted pair of campus rabbits foraging in the snow.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rabbit_snow_2201136017.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>No foxes out in the field today, but there was some nice footage waiting for me on the trail cam when I (eventually) got home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snow Foxes\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gN8m5OPtOnM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The final shot though is one taken when I was stuck on the road on the way home, 2 hours (and about 2 miles) into my journey. The blizzard had stopped, but snow was falling. This is on one of the few level stretches, just before a steep downward incline about a quarter of a mile ahead. That was where I balied out. Not worth the risk. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/snow_2201136067.jpg' \/><\/span> <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens apart from the final shot which was snapped with the EF17-40mm f\/4L USM lens. Video from the Bushnell Trophy Cam HD.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,16,1042],"tags":[934,1128,49,1191,936,220,1136,935],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-snow","category-weather-2","tag-blizzard","tag-fox","tag-gulls","tag-ice","tag-mayhem","tag-pond","tag-snow","tag-traffic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}