Bristol snow chaos comes to Clifton

There's been a big surge in traffic to this site. Keywords used to find it: "bristol snow chaos" and "bristol firstbus snow". Those people looking for firstbus status in the snow conditions we can only apologise to: neither this web site, or, apparently, FirstBus's own web site, had any details on which buses were running in the snow. We didn't know -they didn't seemingly care.

As for the others, this web site was documenting Bristol Snow Chaos before even it started snowing. And now it has, it is time to explore it.

Here in Clifton, giant boulders of snow have rolled into the roads.

These could be the reason that this car has been pushed up onto the pavement on Victoria Square. In glaciology/mountaineering terminology, it would then be part of a lateral moraine, bits of the mountain pushed to the side as the glacier went past.

Alternatively the drivers of the car R17KYE were worried about the risk of snowploughs coming past, and they chose to park far enough away from the road there would be no worries. The snow implies they've been there for three days, so they should be safe from snowploughs now -or maybe it's best to leave it there for the next storm.