UK hit by terrible snow storm!

[April madness]

sure, no doubt about that but what I mean is that those vehicles can´t drive through snow? C´mon, even my old car could do it a few weeks ago when we were hit by snow and temperatures up to -30 degrees

Well I suppose the visibility was so bad in the snowstorm that those vehicles were unsafe to drive... especially in a combination with the famous English fog

[checkSide]

You lot have it got it all wrong.

Our country runs fine in the snow.
We didn't hold sway over a quarter of the entire World's landmass, being scared of a little weather.

We just love an excuse to do fook all.

[crucible77]

You lot have it got it all wrong.

Our country runs fine in the snow.
We didn't hold sway over a quarter of the entire World's landmass, being scared of a little weather.

We just love an excuse to do fook all.

well said

[hegeland]

Touché, Monique! (although I'm not one of the pink burned folks)


But £17,000 for a mere three hours of gritting and plowing???? My god, we'd have to spend our entire BNP on that alone!
I think Mr. Edward Welsh must be putting some money into his own pocket...

Love that answer checkSide! (I've suspected that all along)

[MattCash]

it was torture, not being able to go to my snooker club, hopefully roads will be better tomorrow

[Goldspark]

I'm surprised nobody has talked about the implications for snooker - hope all the players will be able to make it to Prestatyn tomorrow for the Welsh Open qualifiers.

[brettski]

I'm surprised nobody has talked about the implications for snooker - hope all the players will be able to make it to Prestatyn tomorrow for the Welsh Open qualifiers.

If it carries on like this it'll be whoever turns up wins.

[totlxtc]

You lot have it got it all wrong.

Our country runs fine in the snow.
We didn't hold sway over a quarter of the entire World's landmass, being scared of a little weather.

We just love an excuse to do fook all.

Im happy with that. This was the snow out of my door at the worst of it. My train was cancelled (Both of them) and could not get to work
.....was chuffed as my little one saw the snow for the first time

[ferret]

Some of my pics from today.

The Ice House
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...e&id=775468031

Traveling without moving
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...3&id=775468031

Original
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...9&id=775468031

Edited
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...7&id=775468031

Desaturated
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...f&id=775468031

[Monique]

I'm surprised nobody has talked about the implications for snooker - hope all the players will be able to make it to Prestatyn tomorrow for the Welsh Open qualifiers.

I actually did. Asked Janie Watkins from GSC who was brave enough to fight the blizzard to go and check. Yesterday evening no player had canceled and a few had come beforehand to be certain to make it in time. Only one ref had phoned that he was snowed under and they were looking for a replacement.

Thanks Janie. What would we do without you?

[crucible77]

MY SCHOOL IS SHUT ALL DAY!!!

[April madness]

MY SCHOOL IS SHUT ALL DAY!!!

Bwahaha. Lucky you. Here the 1st year (and kindergarten) kids don't go to school only if it is below -25

[The Statman]

Yes it's probably a combination of the ill-preparedness for such 'extremes' (and it certainly was extreme for southern England) and the fact that the Met Office issues warnings of "Don't travel unless it's essential" which would probably convince a lot of people to skip work than to skip shopping or the pub!

Having said that, of course all London Underground lines start in the suburbs and are only actually underground in the city centre, so it is not so stupid that the tube trains should be affected. All the depots are out of the city centre.

And the people in this country who were moaning that we can't cope with snow like lots of countries who get bucketloads, would be the same ones who would complain at their council tax bills skyrocketing to maintain snowploughs and whatnot that will be needed once in 15 years. (And probably the ones who thought shortest about whether to try to get to work and answered No.)

The biggest problem is that people expect the councils to grit the roads and then expect that they should be able to drive on these gritted roads just as they would in the middle of summer. One guy even commented on the BBC website about how come the authorities hadn't gritted the M25, because he saw pictures of it in the morning under a foot of snow!

But of course, if people can't get to work and schools are scared of being sued if some kid should fall over on an icy playground, as well as needing a certain ratio of teachers to children, the schools are clearly going to be reluctant to open.

Yes we grind to a halt in the snow, but the snow is not the issue; there is an avalanche of other factors which we could do something about but it seems these days a part of the British psyche that nobody has to do their bit any more.

[dannyd0g]

Well said Statman.

A piece on the bbc news last night was asking why we dont cope with proper winter conditions as well as say Russia for example.

In Russia they are properly equipped: they have amazing road snow sweeping machines, tyres with nails in to grip the ice, busses with snow plows on the front of them ! etc etc

As Statman (and the bbc) were saying we could have all this, but it would be terrible budgeting to spend millions on all that equipment that would only be used a couple of days every five years or so. We would all still be paying for it on the other 4 years and 363 days !

[Ekphantos]

We had snow over Christmas here and they didn't manage to clean the roads in time, so when it got colder, everything was covered in ice, but no one cared to grit the roads. So the great result was a lot of accidents and stuck cars, since the French/Swiss don't like the concept of changing to winter tyres it seems. When people at my lab complained that the parking lot was too dangerous to even walk on, we were told that that was bad luck and we would have to wait until the temperatures got warmer again I got quite annoyed by the whole situation... We are after all in a region that gets at least a bit of snow nearly every winter, so people know what to expect...