How are you all managing in the snow?
Discussion
It seems to me from my ivory tower (Texas) that people in the UK are finding the extreme weather hard to cope with. I wish I was there with you powering through it but I wonder, is anyone actually becoming pissed off with it and finding it hard work?
I think I'd love it but of course when we haven't got to minus temps this year thats easy to say.
I only ask this following a conversation I had with a collegue in Aberdeen who says he's well pissed off with snow and falling over on pavements outside work
edit to correct to a spelling mistake that made me seem like even more of a
than I am.
I think I'd love it but of course when we haven't got to minus temps this year thats easy to say.
I only ask this following a conversation I had with a collegue in Aberdeen who says he's well pissed off with snow and falling over on pavements outside work
edit to correct to a spelling mistake that made me seem like even more of a
than I am.Edited by Motorrad on Wednesday 6th January 02:37
Iv been ok considering I do anything between 80-120 miles per day. Had a few "st, it won't get up that" moments but it always has 
I am getting seriously pissed at all the 4x4 drivers that think they are Gods gift to snow. The actual part of driving has not been bad though, just having to leave a little more buffer time when setting off.
t, it won't get up that" moments but it always has I am getting seriously pissed at all the 4x4 drivers that think they are Gods gift to snow. The actual part of driving has not been bad though, just having to leave a little more buffer time when setting off.
It's been a piece of piss thus far. Temps here in the East Midlands did not drop below +1 degrees centigrade last night. Not even a frost to be scraped off the car this morning at 5:30 am and all main roads are completely clear. Anyone thinking they can avoid work today here should be issued with a DCM award.
We had a few oh s%$* moments on Saturday while crawling into town, including the knobhead that came flying off the sliproad from the motorway and didn't stop, he crossed both lanes and used the kerb to stop with, how he didn't take the front of our car out we don't know.
But, the other half had some fun going round a few corners
And we did have some fun trying to reverse into the drive, but apart from that ok.
I work from home, so don't have to travel to work.
Kids should have gone back to school on Monday, but the boiler had burst, so it's been shut since.
We do need to get some shopping in, not stocking up, just the basics really, not sure when we are going to do that.
And I am keeping an eye on my elderly neighbours.
But, the other half had some fun going round a few corners
And we did have some fun trying to reverse into the drive, but apart from that ok.
I work from home, so don't have to travel to work.
Kids should have gone back to school on Monday, but the boiler had burst, so it's been shut since.
We do need to get some shopping in, not stocking up, just the basics really, not sure when we are going to do that.
And I am keeping an eye on my elderly neighbours.
Motorrad said:
It seems to me from my ivory tower (Texas) that people in the UK are finding the extreme weather hard to cope with. I wish I was there with you powering through it but I wonder, is anyone actually becoming pissed off with it and finding it hard work?
We've only had the odd ay or two here and there of proper snow, and we've only just gone back to work - Christmas is a two-week layoff for many nowadays.But we don't normally get snow in the winter anymore, so for many to actually have proper snow cover is a totally new experience outside of a skiing holiday.
I have to say, here in the UK the response to snow is absolutely pathetic.
Schools closed, transport services cancelled at the merest wiff of some snow.
In some of the more far flung countryside areas with B roads etc, then things can get difficult but our main roads and motorways shouldnt be allowed to become blocked.
It seems that extreme weather brings out extreme health & safety paranoia in the politically correct.
Where is the Brit true grit !?
Schools closed, transport services cancelled at the merest wiff of some snow.
In some of the more far flung countryside areas with B roads etc, then things can get difficult but our main roads and motorways shouldnt be allowed to become blocked.
It seems that extreme weather brings out extreme health & safety paranoia in the politically correct.
Where is the Brit true grit !?
Climate Chaos, christ we're fked here. I'm expecting to see a polar bear walk past the window, rather than melting apart from they have buggered off somewhere warmer.
I live in perhaps the least snowy bit of the country. Sea to the S, estuaries all around, moors and high ground from 9 o clock to 2 o clock. It never snows here, apart from years ago, early 80's and now. It's snowing heavily and everything is white. We've got the log fires on full tilt and I'm about to dig out my old morris minor bonnet and go up the field.
ked here. I'm expecting to see a polar bear walk past the window, rather than melting apart from they have buggered off somewhere warmer. I live in perhaps the least snowy bit of the country. Sea to the S, estuaries all around, moors and high ground from 9 o clock to 2 o clock. It never snows here, apart from years ago, early 80's and now. It's snowing heavily and everything is white. We've got the log fires on full tilt and I'm about to dig out my old morris minor bonnet and go up the field.
Had a chat with a friend from Switzerland. She informed me over 50% of council tax equivalent is spent on keeping roads/infrastructure free of snow.
I'm not sure I'd prefer whopping amounts of tax invested in fleets of snow ploughs and stock piles of salt and grit, as an alternative to a few days off in the snow whenever it does actually snow.
I'm sure everyone moaning about how the roads close when it snows have invested their own money in snow chains and winter tyres? They're not just expecting to drive around on normal 'summer' tyres in their 2-wheel drive cars are they?
I'm not sure I'd prefer whopping amounts of tax invested in fleets of snow ploughs and stock piles of salt and grit, as an alternative to a few days off in the snow whenever it does actually snow.
I'm sure everyone moaning about how the roads close when it snows have invested their own money in snow chains and winter tyres? They're not just expecting to drive around on normal 'summer' tyres in their 2-wheel drive cars are they?
Echoing others thoughts, it's been a piece of piss so far... for me as I'm used to it.
Monday morning when everyone was complaining about -8C it was quite warm, I'm used to -15 and -25C at my other place in Sweden. Bit of snow, pah, I've got the right tyres on the cars, everyone else, well!
Yes UK is pathetic. Mind you I am finding some wry amusement watching all these uber bahn-stormer 4X4 owners who have found that it doesn't do what it says on the tin and are slithering around like a Jack Russell on lino.
Monday morning when everyone was complaining about -8C it was quite warm, I'm used to -15 and -25C at my other place in Sweden. Bit of snow, pah, I've got the right tyres on the cars, everyone else, well!
Yes UK is pathetic. Mind you I am finding some wry amusement watching all these uber bahn-stormer 4X4 owners who have found that it doesn't do what it says on the tin and are slithering around like a Jack Russell on lino.
Swilly said:
I have to say, here in the UK the response to snow is absolutely pathetic.
Schools closed, transport services cancelled at the merest wiff of some snow.
In some of the more far flung countryside areas with B roads etc, then things can get difficult but our main roads and motorways shouldnt be allowed to become blocked.
It seems that extreme weather brings out extreme health & safety paranoia in the politically correct.
Where is the Brit true grit !?
Haven't you heard? Most of the councils have run out of it, and the salt too!Schools closed, transport services cancelled at the merest wiff of some snow.
In some of the more far flung countryside areas with B roads etc, then things can get difficult but our main roads and motorways shouldnt be allowed to become blocked.
It seems that extreme weather brings out extreme health & safety paranoia in the politically correct.
Where is the Brit true grit !?
Phil1 said:
Had a chat with a friend from Switzerland. She informed me over 50% of council tax equivalent is spent on keeping roads/infrastructure free of snow.
Makes you wonder what our lot do with all the money they get given they don't spend 50% on making the roads right in the dry...I had no problems getting home last night apart from all the people out there who didn't know that busses and HGVs don't work well on untreated surfaces
Edited by dnb on Wednesday 6th January 09:40
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