**updated – 17:17, 12th January 2008**
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It’s 18.31 Friday.
I am sitting in my car on top of The Cotswolds, going nowhere.
There are about 2,000 other cars up here.
All going nowhere.
We’ve been trapped by the very sudden (and un-forecast) blizzard.
The snow outside is four inches deep, all of the roads up here are impassable.
Fortunately I’m well prepared; in the car I have a bar of chocolate and three bottles of water.
In the boot I have a pair of Wellingtons, a fleece and a puffa jacket.
I don’t really want to spend hours on end in the car, but if I have to I won’t do too badly.
I hope everyone else is going to be comfortable.
I’ve taken a couple of photographs but the signal out here isn’t fast enough to upload – I’ll do that later.
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**updated – 17:17, 12th January 2008**
Six hours.
That’s what it took me to travel 68 miles.
More later.
B.
A417 near Birdlip by any chance ?
We live a bit south of you (near the dreaded Strensham stretch) and a friend of mine left work in Cirencester at 4.30 and got home at 11.45. Happy days.
I took the boys swimming in Tewkesbury this afternoon and if it carries on raining those poor sods are in for more flooding
Hi Gumpher. I was on the A417 when it started sheeting down but I wasn’t at Birdlip, at The Highwayman junction.
So I ducked off at The Highwayman and tried four of my alternate routes – they were all impassable.
In the end I had to crawl down in to Cirencester and pick up the M5 there. A nightmare journey.