Snowed in for 9 days !

[joe_bloggs*]

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/26/experience-snowed-inside-a-pub-for-nine-days

For the next nine days we worked by day, looking after our guests, and by night we ate and drank like kings, feasting on all the finest food from the specials menu – steaks, pies, roasts – washed down with an ale or five. After all, if we didn’t eat the food, it would go off, as would much of the ale. We stoked the fires until they roared louder than the wind outside and had a party every night. We drank, laughed, watched movies and played Monopoly before staggering drunk up to bed in whichever guestroom took our fancy.

Four years on, I still work at the Lion, as assistant manager. Even now, people come in, asking about what happened then. I tell them it was hard and we were scared for our lives. But the truth is, I’ll treasure the experience for as long as I live. Looking back, I remember mostly how we laughed, cocooned inside the pub, the seven of us, with drinks in hand under flickering candlelight. I’ve not felt so cosy since.

Yes i know it was in 2010,but a good story nevertheless

[suzieseaside]

Sound great! Would like to have been staying there 

[mouse4702]

That big snow in the early 80s I was working in the Old Kings Arms, Pembroke.  Roads closed; isolated farms had to be dropped food via helicopter.  We were in the town's main street, but roads closed - the Texaco refinery had to change shifts via boat - and eventually the supermarkets started running out of food as the lorries couldn't get through.  In the hotel we had gas cooking and log fires, and when the electric went off we worked by candlelight.  It was a very special time.  The guests we had in had to stay, as they couldn't leave on the closed roads.  After 3 days we were running out of food.  After 4 days we ran out of beer.  After 5 days the lorries got through again and the thaw began.  It was just starting to get scary then!  I'll never forget it.  Apart from being frightening, it was dead romantic!