The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
Back to shutdown days of thunder snow in 2010
Just seven years ago Tayside and Fife entered into one of the most gruelling and severe winters in recent memory.
When the snow started falling in late November 2010 it immediately brought chaos to roads, forced the closure of schools across Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Fife and Angus and cancelled a string of local events.
A phenomenon known as “thunder snow” battered Tayside on November 28, bringing storms and 8in to 10in of the white stuff to Dundee and Perth.
Roads were blocked by trapped cars and jack-knifed lorries, with electricity also cut off to a large number of homes.
By November 30 residents across Courier Country were being told to “stay home, stay safe and stay warm” as 3,600 were left without power to their homes.
As December neared the snow persisted and travel chaos became a daily occurrence with trains and buses regularly called off.
Mail was affected, football matches called off, burials were made impossible and deliveries of fuel caused anxiety and panic buying.
Farmers suffered as farm buildings collapsed under the amount of snow on roofs.
As the winter weather dragged on through December, some schools were closed for as long as a week at a time and the Tay Road Bridge was closed to traffic on more than one occasion.
However there was also stories of community spirit with locals in the likes of Perth and Dundee offering shelter to stranded travellers.
Good samaritans also came to the aid of the elderly and vulnerable by going on shopping trips for neighbours and clearing pathways, with pages set up on social media as locals pulled together.
Problems with snow and ice endured until late January.