(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 29 - Better trapped in a pub, surrounded by pints of beer and steaming roasts, than under a snow storm.
However for the 61 people who were planning on going to the Tan Hill Inn Friday night to listen to Oasis' cover band, Noasis, sing a few songs and go home, being stuck for two days by the storm Arwen was not entirely pleasant.
The BBC reports it.
The venue where the concert took place on Friday evening is the highest in England (528 meters above sea level) and is located in the Dales National Park, Yorkshire. When the band, already jokingly renamed on Facebook 'snowasis', and its fans arrived at the pub, the weather conditions were already prohibitive due to the passage of the storm that caused power outages, falling trees and inconvenience to highway transport throughout the area. main, the M1, closed to the north. The situation worsened by the end of the concert, with a meter of snow blocking the pub door.
Customers and managers did not lose heart and, having realized the impossibility of returning home, they got ready to sleep, in turn, on makeshift beds.
On Saturday the conditions did not improve and between performances of 'Wonderwall', beers and a fireplace, another day went by.
In the end, the rescue arrived only on Sunday and were able to bring everyone to safety after 48 hours.
But someone was almost sorry for the end of the adventure.
"Some have been so attached that they have decided to meet here once a year," said Nicola Townsend, manager of NicolaTownsend pub.
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