I'll be at the pub, PING
Posted on 12/07/2010 12:20:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
In what sounds like a beer drinker’s dream, seven people were trapped inside a British pub for nine days by a ferocious snowstorm and 16-foot snow drifts.
Five staff members and two local residents were barricaded in the Lion Inn in Blakey Ridge, Kirbymoorside, North Yorkshire from Nov. 26, but under the most optimal of conditions: plenty of food and drink and since the pub is also a bed and breakfast, there were even beds to sleep in.
A snowplow finally made its way over the North York moors to the pub Saturday, allowing those inside to leave, the BBC reported.
“It was really novel at first and quite exciting,” the Mail quoted waitress Katie Underwood, 18, as saying before they finally made it out.
"It’s been freezing, but we’ve been lucky that it’s a pub and B&B we’re trapped in.
‘We’ve got plenty of coal for our fire, which has been great, and there are rooms upstairs so we have somewhere to sleep, and plenty of food.”
The Lion Inn’s home website says, ”The bar is well known for its good selection of quality real ales” and notes it is recommended by, among others, The Good Pub Guide and the Good Beer Guide.
I'll be at the pub, PING
Oh, the Huge Manatee of it all!!!!!
How is this news? Seems like they would want to keep it a secret.
The nearest Britain came toward a written, Republican constitution?
“Another kidney pie Gov’nor?”
Oh — the horror — the HORROR!!
Best.... thread.... ever!
All that could be heard was their cries for ‘elp. Whatever that is?
Dreams DO come true!
Wonder if they told their rescuers to go away.
This happened to me for a couple hours in a tornado.
The lights went out and the beer flowed.
Last February I was trapped at the Admiral Fell Inn in Baltimore because of the blizzard. All in all, if you’re snowed in, Fells Point is not such a bad place. The local pubs stayed open and we even watched the Super Bowl from one that put together a nice open table spread.
As long as there’s NO tin whistle..I’m in!
Oh man. If the Bass Ale also was in plentiful supply, it would be an ideal vacaction.
Warm Newcastle and cold Roast Beef... could be worse...
heck of a time and place for an AA meeting.
lol
Uncle Dick drowned last week in a vat of whiskey at the bBrewery. Some of the fellow workers dived in to save him but he fought them off bravely. We cremated his body and it took three days to put out the fire.
Regards,
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