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Here comes the snow again

Posted Monday, December 6, 2010

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Snow

As I look out my window at just after 10am on Monday the snow is comig down again - and it is those big thick flakes that lie.

It all depends how long it lasts but the skies are quite dark and the clouds look snow-filled.

The children in school will be looking out the windows of their classrooms half with the delight and half wishing that it had started a couple of hours earlier so that they could have had a Snow Day.

Scoil Isogain in Buncrana is off and Carn Community College weren't starting till 10:15am but all Moville schools were scheduled as on.

It will be getting back home that will be the problem.

Icy Roads

The previous snowfalls have turned to ice and the new snow will have fallen on top of that bed of ice making it invisible to motorists and pedestrians alike.

The flakes are getting even thicker as I write and some are almost the size of snowballs.

It won't take too long of this for there to be a good cover of snow.

I wish I had gone up for my newspaper earlier.

Shopkeepers

The owners and managers of local grocery shops will be delighted.

Last week was their best week for a long time.

People were stocking up in case it got worse and they weren't gambling on the roads for their usual weekly trip to Derry.

Boost

The snow could actually be a good boost to Moville's economy - although the pubs and restaurants are finding the opposite.

The new snowfall is already covering the ground and it only started just before I started this article - and it shows no signs of abating.

A liitle robin is bobbing about in my front garden.

Maybe I'll chuck some bread out for it.

Crash

Motorists won't be pleased.

It seems that one of them looked as if he was trying to take his car down the steps at the River Row on Saturday morning.

The sign near there that says Bredagh River was also knocked down as motorists skated on black ice at the bottom of the town.

The snow is getting thicker still.

It looks very Chistmasy out there.

Ah well!

It makes a change.

Update

It's still snowing at midday.

Moville Community College is now closed and the pupils sent home while they can still get there.

Scoil Eoghain is now closed too and the pupils sent home.