Falkirk Council gritting teams have been praised for their work during heavy snow and blizzards last week.
The two photographs below were taken half an hour apart and shows the conditions snow ploughs faced.
The first snap from Limerigg weather station shows a snowy road with a clear path through and just 31 minutes later, a complete white out again.
It was a difficult time for the team, who worked solidly through an amber weather warning for 74 hours to clear Falkirk's priority routes.
With all 12 of the council's gritters being used to keep priority routes clear, there was no chance to move on to roads in housing schemes.
But the team did make sure that vaccination and Covid test centres were able to open and also helped some families attend funerals.
That meant people across the district grabbing shovels and getting to work to clear pavements and even roads in their own patches.
This week, roads manager Dorothy Reid thanked everyone for their efforts.
She said: "There has been a huge community effort in areas away from our priority routes where people have come together and gone over and above, clearing roads and gritting roads.
"We really want to thank them for everything they have done."
The unusual conditions saw heavy bursts of snowfall combined with a very strong wind from the east that created drifting, particularly in the Braes area.
Ms Reid said: "It was difficult and a bit demoralising for the teams because they felt like they had just got things cleared and then they had to start again.
"We started on Monday lunchtime with two continuous 24-hour shifts and that was with 12 gritters across the network.
"It wasn't like normal when we treat for ice and then the guys can go home - they had to get reloaded again and go back out and treat the network over again."
In just one week, they used 2000 tonnes of salt - half the amount that is normally spread in an entire year - as temperatures dipped to -8.5C.
