Poll: Is it just me or does Snow only fuck-up Britain.
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We'll get 2 feet all the time and life still functions. I'll still have school and I'll still go places.
We had an assload of snow here in holland just before christmas. there's snow right now but that's from last week, it just hasn't melted yet. apparantly, there's more coming tonight. but yes, it's worse in Britain. as for the fuck-up part, we have that too. all the trains and most of the busses just stopped before christmas. getting anywhere was a nightmare.
I'm in Birmingham and there's about 6-8" of snow.
Everything is at a halt, mainly because the council haven't gritted the pavements, so they're just slush and you can't even stand up on them. The roads seem OK today, but yesterday they were problematic.
I do think it's a bit ridiculous that this little snow (ok, a lot for our country) brings everything to a standstill (I want to get from University to Bull Ring, but there's no trains or buses and I really can't be arsed to walk down the canal in this). I can accept that the government can't afford to retain a fleet of snow-ploughs or a large amount of salt/grit as it usually doesn't snow this much, but I don't know why snow-chains are not available. All you have to do is hang them in the garage if they aren't needed, and it would mean that we could at least get to the shops (and the shops could get their deliveries).
I live in Hampshire, I think I made a good choice to come back to uni on Sunday (have work to do), but I can't get up the hill to uni, so it's a bit of a waste (I really need the library - 3 essays I haven't even started writing yet! But I have until the 18th to hand them in, so it's not too bad - got an extra weekend to cram. But an exam on Monday that I'm not looking forwards to) - it was icy on Monday and the snow was here yesterday and today.
I love it - I'm 20 but I can't remember a decent snow-fall like this (40 years ago IIRC). This is how a British winter should be - cold, no rain and occasional, but heavy, snow. Well, I say British but I do mean the last 5000 years sorta thing.
Everything is at a halt, mainly because the council haven't gritted the pavements, so they're just slush and you can't even stand up on them. The roads seem OK today, but yesterday they were problematic.
I do think it's a bit ridiculous that this little snow (ok, a lot for our country) brings everything to a standstill (I want to get from University to Bull Ring, but there's no trains or buses and I really can't be arsed to walk down the canal in this). I can accept that the government can't afford to retain a fleet of snow-ploughs or a large amount of salt/grit as it usually doesn't snow this much, but I don't know why snow-chains are not available. All you have to do is hang them in the garage if they aren't needed, and it would mean that we could at least get to the shops (and the shops could get their deliveries).
I live in Hampshire, I think I made a good choice to come back to uni on Sunday (have work to do), but I can't get up the hill to uni, so it's a bit of a waste (I really need the library - 3 essays I haven't even started writing yet! But I have until the 18th to hand them in, so it's not too bad - got an extra weekend to cram. But an exam on Monday that I'm not looking forwards to) - it was icy on Monday and the snow was here yesterday and today.
I love it - I'm 20 but I can't remember a decent snow-fall like this (40 years ago IIRC). This is how a British winter should be - cold, no rain and occasional, but heavy, snow. Well, I say British but I do mean the last 5000 years sorta thing.
Im usually one to plough through bad weather even in the most extremes.
But I have the flu on top of things so I had to accept the inevitable defeat today in not going anywhere.
Still snowing here too... my poor little dog disappeared in it... it was funny.
But I have the flu on top of things so I had to accept the inevitable defeat today in not going anywhere.
Still snowing here too... my poor little dog disappeared in it... it was funny.
British are barely used to having this much snow. We're really only used to mild and annoyingly frequent and unpredictable showers.
That said, we're brittish, and closing stuff down is only because we have a valid excuse to cause disppointment. ah... bliss
That said, we're brittish, and closing stuff down is only because we have a valid excuse to cause disppointment. ah... bliss
The snow seems to work for me. I pretty much slid my way to town this morning, during an actual reduced-visibility pseudo-blizzard. It's a tad annoying that the pavement is not at all gritted, and I see pensioners falling over, cursing the Satan-snow.
Why is it in this country that we consider an area to be 'gritted' if we just dump a foot-high pile of gravel and salt in the middle of a pavement without spreading it 'round a bit?
Ah well, I personally love the snow; it brings out everyone's inner-child and I'm always too warm so the cooler the better.
Why is it in this country that we consider an area to be 'gritted' if we just dump a foot-high pile of gravel and salt in the middle of a pavement without spreading it 'round a bit?
Ah well, I personally love the snow; it brings out everyone's inner-child and I'm always too warm so the cooler the better.
I did hear Europe is having one of its worse winters on record, so I'm thinking this is just a really crappy year.
I spit on your "2 and 1/2 inches" sirrah. Up here in Scotland there are no trains, no mail and virtually no transport. I've never seen anything like this before. I've seen a few white Christmases sure, but my house has got 19 motherfucking inches of snow in some places, mostly it sits at 14 inches.
This fine gentleman appears to have ninja'd me.Klepa said:
In Britain we don't experience this kind of weather on this level of severity (it is quite dangerous in some places) enough to warrant the expense of this degree of safety measures.