The Big Freeze | British Weather | Snow | TV Eye | 1982 

This is when the world thought we were heading into a new ice age and we would be out of hydrocarbons by the year 2000...

I was in the American Air Force, stationed in the Midlands when this happened. If I recall correctly, they gave an official average depth of 18". Being from the state of Georgia, which is in the American South, this was, by far, the biggest snow I had ever seen. This was the first time in my life that I had walked through waist-deep snow drifts. They handled the situation very well, getting the major roads cleared very quickly. This is just one part of many wonderful memories I have from my two years living there.

As a 10 year old the most traumatic thing about this was when the snow melted :(. It was the greatest winter of my life so far.

The soldier cares so much , he makes up his responsibility to look after the old lady, Respect you so much for that , today we don’t look after each other and humans we have the obility too love and care ,I just wish more would

The mid-Glamorgan accent is quite lovely 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 EVERYONE helped during this crisis, paying particular attention to the elderly who were at serious risk. Great video. Thank you for sharing.

Remember it well! That big freeze began around november / december 1981. 11:38 Typical! 19:57 :-0

Those soldiers are probably pensioners themselves now. And WHO is gonna help them today?

I was eleven and in my first year at senior school. Remember this era well and enjoyed playing out in the snow!

Man they've been lying for so many years..🤦‍♂️

5.54 Nice to see Les Dawson mucking in .

I remember going to work knee deep in snow in the middle of a normally busy cross roads it took me two hours to walk there it normally took me only 20mins !! I will never forget that time

I remember this year (and into 1983) it was so cold in Boston and NYC, toilet water froze and we haf plumbing damage. It was -20 below in KC too and ferns by the winows died. People were worried but it got warmer.

No mention that temperatures fell to a brutally bitter - 25' centigrade, some winters, we might go as low as a few degrees below 0' C in the Uk but that is rare,...usually it can hold steady at +6' - +7' c most winters. But '81/'82, it was exceptionally harsh, more a reminder of 1947 and 1963.

I was 5, nearly 6 in Christmas 81/new year 82 - I remember the snow and the huge thick icicles outside out house from the roof drainpipe and the snow about 2-3ft up our back door. I loved it - great memories.

I,was in the Royal regiment of Wales 95, good regiment.

I want to move to this country for all of its faults but everyone was trying their best, like Churchill said to Hitler you do your worst and will will do our best !!

I was seventeen at the time and living at home with my parents in Nantymoel, in the Ogmore Valley (see 20:25) , just west of the Rhondda in Mid Glamorgan, so one can appreciate the UK Government's 'offer' for my home area (and for many others) was far from reasonable. My family was, indeed, close friends with the family of local farmer, Mr John Pugh (see 20:36). I still remember the extreme conditions very well, even though I'm now fifty-nine. I now live in Oxford, so don't foresee similar conditions in my locality again in my lifetime! (Fingers crossed!)

Had to listen again when it said rent was £1/week - thought I'd misheard. If you adjust for inflation that's a whopping £3.50/week in 2022.

I was 15. Snow in the middle of the street was 3ft deep. On way to school in the thick of it, my mates and I passed a girl (who we didn't like) stuck in this 3ft drift. She was left there. Our school didn't close a single day over that winter. Snorkel jackets were popular then. 😊

Remember it well. December 81, January 1982 was training for London marathon. It got down to minus 20 odd, colder than Russia.

I remember that big freeze - I was 6 or 7...

I loved that winter

The year the temperatures got so cold that the electronic ignition system stopped working in my car and I had to leave it in a snowdrift

if the old lady in the basement was 77 in 1982 she would have been around for the winters of 1947 and 1963 both of which were worse than 1982 so I am guessing she didn't say that "she had never seen such weather" and it was journalistic licence

I was living in the mc in bargoed at that time

What was the Show like TV Eye where it was a load of Asian presenter's sitting at a desk with a gold layout, ended in Eye. Can't remember what it is?

Now we haven't got an army 😢

what is Fremantle?

I remember this year, my uncle Fremantle got me three mantles that year.

The flame on my lighter froze that year?

Look into recently declassified cia files, about how (during the cold war), the ussr tested/used Scalar weapons on the US (possibly, others too?). With one, trying to effect the weather. By using a Scalar weapon that dropped the tempurature to zero (in a specific location). It'll wake you up, to a part of the 'cold war' you were probably unaware of (kept secret by disinfomation). These weapons can have various effects. One of them, is Time dilation. This isn't star trek, this is technology of the now. And many countries research it in secret ...

FREMANTLE

Harsh times.

Thatcherism aye, proved to be a monumental long reaching diaster, unfortunately other Commonwealth countries followed suit.

I was 17

Do blokes the soldiers age now still speak with such an accent ? He sounds like he’s 60.

That old lady in the beginning doesn't seem very greatful to the soldiers, does she?

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