Someone had had to clear the road for this chap. Let's hear it for the farmers who often do the job....

1947 and 1963 no roads at all.it was snow snow.

Winter of ''62/63 much worse than this - snow on ground for almost 3 months.

The snow in this video was no worse than back in the 80's. The village I grew up in, every now and then was cut off for a couple of days. The kids in the village longed for this each winter, as it meant no school and a lot of sledging.

Fascinating to watch. Thank you for making it and sharing it.

Wow! Very good driving skills! Thanks for the video.

The front end loader is doing a nice job there , living in northern Wisconsin in the country it looks like an every day winter most years , not all though , 4x4 ford Trucks is all I own and my old Case 580 loader works well for my 7/10 `s of a mile long driveway and I go down the county road clearing with it at times along with doing neighbors long drives as well , nice post , thanks

Dont you love how everyone is a expert on driving once it snows. Excellent video

Awesome vid! Right vehicle, right tyres, right technique!

Theres a foot or two on the ground, as well as some drifting, looks impressive. Some parts of the Scottish Highlands recorded up about 60ft (yes, sixty feet) or more of snowfall a few years back. It basically snowed from November and didn't stop till March.

Oh, that was nice of them to give you that info. What a snow storm. Glad you're safe.😊

Snow brings everyone together. The great bringing everyone together.

winter 1947. From January 22nd to March 17th, snow fell every day, somewhere in the UK! snow accumulated quickly, reached 1.5m (150cm) & Across the UK drifts of more than 5 meters in depth..1963. Probably the worst winter of the last 100 years. From Boxing Day 1962 to early March 1963, England was under snow continuously for 3 months,snow drifts reached 20 feet & −19.4 °C (−2.9 °F)

I remember this well, we use to walk on the hedges to get to the farm and help the farmer with the milk delivery around the area in Somerset near Crewkerne. What an experience then, it’s nothing now, no help if we get snow. What is progress, good video, thanks .

From Connecticut USA. Glad to see you guys enjoyed the snow. Looks like good times to me.

I can remember the winter of 62/63 very well, we had 4 to 6 feet of snow in places, we had 2 days off school that's all, now i have just seen a weather warning today predicting up to 2 inches of snow is forecast, and they are telling people not to risk travelling out in it, get out and walk you wimps, that's what we had to do in 62/63 to get to school.

Agree he drive way to fast for conditions and I know you need momentum to get you through some bad parts. Also I can remember winter 62/63 on Dartmoor and the village of Bridistowe was cut off for days and there was talk of 30’ snow drifts?.

I was an apprentice at Heathrow during the winter of 62/63 and the temperature was -11ºc on the aircraft outside airtemp gauges for a week. But the winter of 1947 beat that.

Cool video, what a devastating snow storm, just like the ones we have in Western NY 👍

My whole village was cut off from everything for an entire week when this happened , my dad had to get us food because we ran out and he went to the A1 and got a lift from his friend to the nearest town , but to get to the A1 he had to walk 6 miles through that snow with the shopping in a small sled.

Checkout 1963, this looks fun compared to what we experienced then, 😊

How strange. I thought that this reminded me of a trip from Herefordshire to Pembrokeshire in March 2018 along the A44 and lo! so it seems to be. Funny thing is that it all got better past Rhayader and that there was nothing at all in Pembrokeshire. The daffodils were out in bright sunshine. I always loved my 2WD Yeti and this video gives me a smile.

63 and 82 were much worse. They went on for weeks. 2018 was minor.

I remember this, my sister got so upset because it was snowing on her birthday. Meanwhile on my birthday (19 days after hers) the snow had gone and i was upset because i had to go to school on my birthday XD

Love this. 4x4 + winter tyres is the only way - Quattro alone wouldn't be safe. I have a Jimny and fit winter tyres for snow and ice. Used to have an Allroad and that was great but thirsty.❄👍

Seen it much worse. This guy not keen on using wiper blades, and slow down.

Those who can remember 1963 in Devon can say this is a mild fall of snow. They had to use helicopters to transport food and fuel to out lying hamlets, as many were cut off for more than two weeks. There was not the machinery then to clear the roads. They even had the army digging out some lanes by hand.

I only remember the snow of 81/82 .my parents car was parked on the side of the main road.when that snow landed,they were unable to move it for ten days ,it was almost covered,deep in snow!

We also had thick fogs around this time which was stopped by the clean air act , I've noticed solid fuel stove are making a comeback hope that don't return lol

I did 3 winters crossing the peak district, so I've seen it worse than that, walls of snow each side of a single track 'corridor' well over the roof of my car, white out blizzard conditions, etc etc had to give up one time it was so bad but a snow plough passed me going through, so I turned around and followed it over. Drifts so deep there were 'pockets' of snow still left in shaded dips many months later in June ....fun times ⚠️😁😎👍

Had to go a long way to get nowhere! Best bit was the Volvo XC90!! Now what do the authorities always tell us? - "If you don't need to be out in it, stay at home" - "Don't go out sightseeing in the snow because you can easily become a casualty of the weather, and become an unnecessary additional burden on the already stretched emergency services". Winter '62/'63 makes this look like a scattering of icing sugar, and wait for it, we had much worse winters in the years 1976 to '85. I remember passing through Forge Valley in North Yorkshire, about 1982, where the snow had been a good 12 to 15 feet deep, and that still did not come close to the '62/'63 event. If you're going to go on snow like that, you can't do much better than a good 4WD tractor, unless you happen to have a 'Snowtrac' 'Snowcat' ' Skidozer' or a 'Skidoo'! And never, ever, make the mistake of thinking a 4WD car will get you out of trouble, they won't, they have limits, and far too many people develop an unhealthy and misguided trust in their cars, only to come unstuck when they needed it most. Even a hovercraft has serious limitations on snow.

i worked for Derbyshire highways at chapel en le frith in the 80s, this was a regular thing from November to April, and the roads where kept clear all the time.

Reminds me of the snow we had in 1995 in Cumbria, we lived right on the coast, but it looked like this.

2009 n 10 were bad years..but nothing on the 50s/60s.

would love to drive through that snow in my forrester. thanks for sharing.

12:01 I never knew that people in Great Britain have such high pitched voices! Except for you guys using the wrong side of the road... 🤣... that looks like a typical winter and scenery here in America. Greetings across the pond.

It was similar where i live but it was worse for me than for some other people because the nearest shop was 30 miles away , me , my mom and my sister were stuck in the house for a whole week, my dad after 3 days in the house had to walk to the shop for food but he said it was mostly empty , he pulled the sled he got from the A1 from his friend and i helped him for 5 miles because i helped him half way from the A1 , i took pictures of the snow and it reached above the hedges and covered my entire window , meaning it was about 3 meters high.

Hello - I live 120 miles north of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. We hat a week in January were the average temperature was -35c before any wind factor. Even after periods of rain and warmer weather the snow comes to my armpits in the wood. We can get up to 20 to 30 cm in a single night. We have two seasons: winter (6months) and the others. I know that you are not equipped to handle snow but I have never see a backhoe used to clear snow. Snow plots mounted of pickups (4x4), 10 wheelers (6x6) with front and side plows, Snow blowers on small tractors, on those big farm tractors, payloaders, road graders. In Quebec snow tires are mandatory. I have a big SUV so I have room to transport:t a chainsaw (trees fall because of the snow and ice), chains, pulleys, a come along, a high lift jack,heavy duty booster cables, heavy duty booster pack. I keep snowshoes, extra winter boots, parka and other clothes. I also have candles (heat), energy bars, bottle water. Sometimes to get to the cottage I have to park my SUV along the county road. Generally small country roads are 44 ft wide. I put on my pack sack and snow shoe to the cottage get the big fireplace going and then clear the barn door put in a spare battery (fully charged not frozen) in my tractor. I plow my own road with my 20hp V2 AWD articulated Huskavarna tractor. The snow blower is 42in wide which a minimum to clear the lane, parking areas, access areas. Well we are used to it and in general snow storms do not affect us to much. My SUV is an important part of my winter driving. It’s an All Wheel Drive (AWD) 6 cylinder 3.3 litre with double overhead cams. From this video I can see that the snow you get is challenging. The comment about farmer’s clearing part of the roads is well founded. The have the tractors.

Impressive grunt for the conditions but nearly always risky.

Was this some type of Hitch Hikers guide thing talking in mouse talk ?

What great quality video, any ideas what camera is used? If I had an Audi and that snow locally, I'd do exactly the same thing...snow ain't as much fun on two wheels though! :)

The best thing you can do in this weather is , put your foot down as hard as possible on the go go pedal , and see how fast you can go before your wheels spin or you hit something , then walk to the pub get drunk, have a game of darts, maybe a bag of salt and vinegar crisps , talk in a speeded up way

Please may I ask what motor you are driving And tyres Thankyou lovely video x

Where i lived, if was so bad, that the salt trucks had trouble getting through. I lived in Presteigne, in Wales. The town had no cars anywhere. The pubs in the town were full. The streets were full of kids playing. and I remember a man with nothing but shorts on, while drinking a vodka on his roof. I'm not even joking. But it was really cosy and nice. The log burner was on, snow was falling. The pubs were somewhat cosy as well. I miss it tbh

Would be nice to know what road it was and what vehicle he was driving.

WHAT WAS HE DRIVING ---A TANK ? THOSE PEOPLE, OUT AND ABOUT WITH CHILDREN , I HAVE NO WORDS--

Nice scenic drop of snow. My thumbnail is at the official winter snow fall record, 95 feet in 1998/99. Where I'm standing the snow was 65 feet deep on July 1, 2011 so I had to stop my bicycle ride 4.5 km back down the road where they gave up ploughing. Mt. Baker, Washington State, USA.

In 1982 on January the 11th it was -27°C in Angelsey and the snow was up to 5ft deep in places.

Brilliant video 😎 Where is this?

A44 from Fforest inn to bend on Radnor Forest heading towards Penybont . I live a mile further on 2018

Anybody see the face in the drift on the right at 3-40mins looks like Maggie Thatcher lol

I remember when we use to get snow fall like this back when i was a kid in the 60s and early 70s and now when we get a few mm of snow its mayhem.

Incredible, can't imagine what it'd be like opening the garden door and seeing a wall of snow.

I have drove on roads like that in my life time and never again . I always refused to even start the engine when the snow comes down , like that. Because you could be paying extra insurance for years because of a silly skid. It's cheaper to just stay at home. And if you need to go anywhere, you can use a taxi. But there again I live in the town where roads are gritted. Only the side roads are like this " well not as bad .🇬🇧

Was this beast from east year? As I drove round High Wycombe in my little Suzuki Wagon R no problems but plot twist it had 4wd lol 😂

The word Audi stands for Arrogant Useless Driver Inside, and this driver proves it as he leaves a family with young kids to potentially perish on an impassable snowy road.

Very competent driving - cool as a cucumber.

lol this just looks like an average winter in Consett, Co. Durham in the north of England.

For me, it was the winter of 1947 that sticks in my mind, just the tops of the telephone poles visible at times.

So did the first fella say you will not get through?

I fell asleep, did anything happen?

Gone to look up how to build an igloo!

Looks like a normal New England winter. Now, what vehicles have I owned? 2.3 escort 3- that was actually good for a 2wd, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru, Subaru (+truck), Subaru (+ different truck), Subaru, Honda Ridgeline (truck, mostly, sort of).

1963 was far worse than the beast from the East 12 foot snow drifts and my town was cut off for 3 weeksuntill the army dug us out but the biggest snowfall by far was in 1947 15 snow drifts and the snow lasted from November 1946 to april 1947 The beast from the east was only a dusting of snow compared to those in the past

Was this in February 1982? In West Wales we had 10feet drifts!

That sort of snow was regular back in the 60s and 70s

thank God I live in the west of Scotland ,We did not get this,but last year we had the pest from the west gales and more gales

Winter of '77 worse than that - 52" of snow in 24 hours on January 11 in Upstate NY. I used my CJ-5 with a Meyers Hydroturn plow to plow driveways and parking lots and made a bloody fortune!

We had it much worse than that in the High Peak in the early 1980s!

Where on earth were all those people walking to?I would never leave my car ,I hope they made it home safely ,I remember winter's like that I'm a southern softy now.

What no lift for the poor sods walking in the middle of nowhere?

That is a lot of snow, but it could be misleading to me. I don't really see a lot of ditches or snow fencing. Low and unprotected roads can drift up quickly.

Thanks good vid.

Why would u even attempt to venture out in those conditions🤔🤔

My car could not handle that. Good driver

Thats the snow i remember and we would still get to work

Do they have snow removal crews in great Britain? I live in Florida I haven't seen snow in 40 years. We just have hurricanes here

Honestly, I learnt more about the psychology of the uploader being unable to accept constructive criticism, than anything else. Constructive criticism is good. Knowing how to accept it is even better. Nice snow all the same.

What spaceship was this filmed in ?

Wonder if we will get it this year ?.

I'm glad you kept nice and warm unlike the family you cruised past ?

Not a lot to shout about here in West Suffolk this time around. I was away on holiday when it happened in 2018 . Much to my disappointment that I didn't see/witness it ☹.

AUDI's best comercial :)

1963 WAS THE WORST WINTER ON RECORD.

Doesn’t compare even remotely to the winter of 62/63.. as small kids we didn’t care in Cornwall that winter, we had an extra 2 months off after Christmas. But I remember my parents worrying. No heating due to the power cuts, we were in a modern house that had electric hot air heating… it got so cold… food couldn’t get through (Cornwall was cut off for months) water was frozen in the pipes.. and even the reservoir’s froze. Some of the villages in Cornwall were under 10 ft of snow! And because of our well known country roads being so narrow, they couldn’t get the ploughs down them! The army in the end had to hand dig many of the roads to the villages! Then shops started to run out of things because none of the large delivery lorries could get into Cornwall. It was like something out of Scot of the Antarctic!

62/63most birds never had the strength to fly those that survived had to walk

Bet there was a warning not to go out except for essential travel! Can't see this as essential!

I got to get me a set of those tires cause wow lmao!

Where is this ?

Didn't mostly strong winds create these steep snow drifts. It was deep but the gale force easterly winds piled snow amounts to make things look deeper.

1982 with 20 feet drifts ! Probably the biggest snow in Britain

Just keep the steering straight you will be amazed how you stay on the road, drove from Leicester to Alton no problem the Beast of the East

Winter 62-63 far worse than this

Incredible. Where was this? Had no idea it'd been so bad. Hoping for the same this winter.

Drives way too fast for conditions.

What were the people saying to you?

Going by the comments here the UK had the climate of Canada 50 years ago. Either that, or nostalgia bias has taken over rational thought, and there is an irresistable desire for one-upmanship (why??). Hint: not all winters back in the day were cold and snowy, you are selectively recalling them because they were memorable, they were memorable because they were not normal and they were disruptive. Wet soggy (normal) winters like we had in the 1990's don't stick in the mind half a century later. Some of the claims of past winters on here are ridiculous.

Where and when in England was this?

I remember this winter I was 14 at the time.

When and where was this in Britain