Christchurch/Canterbury ice warning 1 July 08

[TonyB]

I encountered a lot of ice driving to work this morning July 1st, so I thought I should do my civic duty and give everyone a heads up. There's plenty of highly visible white ice around, so there's bound to be some black ice too. Probably the worst I saw was at the Eastern end of Moorhouse ave. And the car park here at work is covered in the stuff. Most of the major roads seem to have a ice free line, but I reckon the quiet suburban streets could be real tricky. Be careful!

[skidMark]

Drift drift!

(on a more serious note, cheers for the heads up)

[Oakie]

Yeah. I sent my boss a TXT about 20 minutes ago saying I'll be late this morning. I'll wait until the sun hits the road before I leave today.

[scorry]

pretty much the whole of dunnas was white this morning as well

[Mikkel]

Our flatmate fell off his pushbike going down the hill due to black ice. Went back home and took the car.

I took the car in today - saw a few brave souls our on their motorcycles (a Repsol CBR1000RR and a red R6 no less). I hit a couple of sneaky patches here and there and was generally pleased with having AWD. :yes:


Yeah. I sent my boss a TXT about 20 minutes ago saying I'll be late this morning. I'll wait until the sun hits the road before I leave today.

Still, be very careful! There will be sneaky patches in the shade...

[The Lone Rider]

Yikes! Would be icy at 6:30am!

Glad I'm on evening shift this week :)

[Rashika]

easy peasy on the pushbike this morning at 6.30am... think it would be worse in the car!
Beaut day now tho :sunny:

[MIZXR]

Ha ha I was having great fun playing slip n slide this morning.
mst of the trip wasn't bad apart from some unexpected sliding action on a couple of corners and trying to brake. A little care went a long way.

Up over the Moorhouse bridge was fun I was slipping and sliding every which way and scaring or maybe just frightening them as I went up.:sweatdrop

[Oakie]

Well I managed to get to work ok without any loss of traction (that I was aware of) but even at 9am there was still a fair bit of white stuff on some parts of the journey and still a few patches of ice here and there.

[Dave-]

when i woke up at 8:30 it was white as....so i went back to sleep.

when i woke up again at 11:30 it was a clear cool day.

[sefer]

Up over the Moorhouse bridge was fun I was slipping and sliding every which way and scaring or maybe just frightening them as I went up.:sweatdrop

It's best to avoid bridges altogether when it gets icy, especially when it's like it was last night/this morning. The lack of any sort of insulation under them (like dirt on roads) means they tend to ice up quickly and badly. It's bad enough with four wheels sometimes, two would be horrible.

[Mikkel]

when i woke up at 8:30 it was white as....so i went back to sleep.

when i woke up again at 11:30 it was a clear cool day.

No new job yet? :scratch:

[Bren]

had heaps of fun at the yard this morning unloading a truck...seems my forklift was on an ice skating rink...YEE-HAW!

[Peril]

Didn't have a problem coming from Burwood/Shirley into central city at 7:30am.Only place that felt slippery was Lake Terrace Rd where it goes between the golf course and round the right hand bend through the trees.

[Dave-]

No new job yet? :scratch:

nah applied for like 4 today, went and saw manpower professional, try organise a meeting tomorrow.

last week in the hail was fun, did all sorts of things that you rather the bike didn't do...

[The Lone Rider]

I ended up losing traction yesterday on a forklift and had to get another forklift to drag it back to where it could grip again! lol

The others at work found it very funny

[scorry]

I ended up losing traction yesterday on a forklift and had to get another forklift to drag it back to where it could grip again! lol

The others at work found it very funny

LOL classic, usually you try to do stuff like that but it never happens.
Any photos? :lol:

[Rollestonchick]

Am glad i took my car to work at 6.30am, West melton area was very frosty. :cold:. Was like diamonds on the road. Driving around the city later in the day saw some brave souls on their :scooter: lol