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Lock in!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:32 pm
by Gob
God, I haven't been in a lock in since me and Hen had a wonderful night at
Brown's Hotel in Laugharne, Dylan Thomas's favourite pub.
This is going a bit far though.
While thousands braved the cold to begin their Christmas shopping, seven people in North Yorkshire are praying for better weather after being snowed into a pub for eight days and counting.
Heavy snow showers and strong winds have left the group stuck in the Lion Inn pub in Blakey Ridge, Kirkbymoorside since last Friday, with little chance of an escape.
Drifts of up to 16ft blocked the inn's doors and windows, with the surrounding roads impassable, and to make matters worse, the stranded seven's cars are buried under nine foot of snow.
The Lion Inn pub in Blakey Ridge, North Yorkshire, where seven people have been trapped for eight days
The group's predicament in the fourth highest pub in England continues as forecasters warned Britons to expect icy conditions for at least another week, with temperatures falling as low as -10C in the South East of England overnight.
Katie Underwood, 18, who has been a waitress at the Lion Inn for four years, said: 'It was really novel at first, and quite exciting.
'The snow is immense. Most of the windows in here are blocked up, but we've got a door open at the back to get some air when we need to.'
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z17BkPaev9
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:04 am
by Sean
Hmmm... eight days on an ale and pork scratchings diet...
I wouldn't say no right now...
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 1:29 pm
by Miles
Damn!
I was stuck in a blizzard in western NY for two days in a gas station with only beer and frozen pizza. What a bummer.
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:37 pm
by BoSoxGal
I'd love that experience. Even though the people would eventually become annoying, the material it would provide for writing would be priceless!
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:38 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
Yeah it's all fun and games till one of them turns out to be a wanted psychopath/serial killer/werewolf/vampire.
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:43 pm
by @meric@nwom@n
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 6:07 pm
by BoSoxGal
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:51 pm
by Gob
Oh that would be nothing, a lock in with Jack Torrance would at least have excitement.
Can you imagine an eight day lock in with....THE PUB BORE!!!!...
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 5:25 pm
by loCAtek
I had some friends who lived in Denver, who went through that almost every winter. Well, not trapped in a pub, but in their own home. The entry/exit way was a high window in the kitchen.
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 2:14 am
by Jarlaxle
This is one reason I have a 4WD truck with a plow...even if the streets are closed, I can get home. Anyone seeing my truck sees the sand spreader & plow and just assumes I should be there. Even with a blizzard, I can get home before it shuts everything down.
At home, I can easily go a week or more...I have a generator for power & water, a woodstove for heat, and my stove will work without electricity. (Which reminds me, I think I need to get my propane refilled soon.)
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 7:55 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Lived in Buffalo for the "big one" in 1977. Started snowing on a wednesday and didn't stop til early monday morning. Thankfully we were only 2 houses away from the end of the street which on the corner was a bar. We braved that storm to and from the bar more than once that weekend. Eneded up trading booze (from them) for food (from us) as the bar had no food to begin with and nothing with food was close-by. Glad we had stocked up before the storm.
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:01 am
by loCAtek
Is it time to tell this story again? I know I've told this before...
Winter of '95, I was at a Training School in Philadelphia, when I got my leave days approved. I told my BF/fiance' to head out here, NOW!
'Now' was during one of the worse blizzards on record- didn't just close the county, city, or state, but the whole friggin East Coast. No lie.
I hadn't thought he'd make it at all and hadn't left base, when he called from the airport and said he'd got a miracle rent-a-car... Oops, how was I to get off base and to the Hotel Room we'd rented for the weekend!? The city buses and taxis weren't running; anyone who had a car was gone already, and walking in a snow storm- yea right!
That's when I noticed a civilian in the quarterdeck, and wondered at how he'd got there?
Turns out he was the pizza delivery guy! One of those guys who drives his own car, and sticks a sign out the window or sumtin.
I told him, "Here- here's $20 bucks, if can get me to this hotel, I'll give you twenty more.
I got to the rendezvous with bells on!
Re: Lock in!!!
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:33 am
by Jarlaxle
I think I was actually delivering pizzas in that snowstorm. The place where I worked had three guys out for most of the storm: me in my uncle's Plymouth Trailduster, one guy in his Chevy K-10 pickup, and another in an AWD Subaru Loyale wagon, the K-10 & Trailduster running all-terrains and snow chains, & the Subie running regular snow tires (might've been the first time I saw Blizzaks, actually).
Technically, we weren't supposed to be out...but a half dozen pizzas and a couple 2L bottles of Coke each to the police station, fire station, and DPW garage not only got us left alone, but the guys at the DPW garage pumped 30 gallons of diesel fuel into the K-10 for nothing and one of the snowplow drivers used his big 10-wheel truck to take apart a snowbank so we had a place to leave our cars outside the pizzaria.
(The big sign in the window saying "HOT COFFEE-FREE FOR POLICE FIRE & DPW" didn't hurt, I'm sure.)
