Snowmageddon - this Friday

[steveT350C]

My local tesco had run out of milk by 10am. Seems most people took day off work and did weekly shop on Friday before snow hit. At least that's what I did

[scenario8]

Well in South London my local superstore is only mediumly busy and the only thing even remotely nearly out of stock is large containers of semi skimmed milk. Bread, fruit andveg, fresh meat...you name it and there isn't any sign of panic buying.

I doubt the Mail or any of the rolly eyed posters above will be venturing into this part of the world to proclaim the end of the world/sneer at the idiot masses.

I thought I'd be in trouble for not having bought stuff yesterday but it was fine.

[TangerinePool]

Oakey said:

TangerinePool said:

Ha! We're not used to so much are we - 6ft at least in FY4.

My 9 month old is practically agog...

I've been through FY4.... 6ft? Bit optimistic aren't you?

You were right but we ended up with 6mm at least

Hardly any in Cleveleys though.

[carreauchompeur]

It's times like this that we see the British public at their very most bovine. On the whole, people's whole attitude is "Yay, free day off" rather than taking any additional effort to get to work. Utter bks like "safety" concerns meaning people think it "safest" to stay home.

There are exceptions- I mean, if your kids can't go to school then someone needs to look after them, and some roads are genuinely impassable.

Typical "snow day" at work, virtually nobody in, and some striking differences revealed like one person managing to get in completely safely from the same road that someone else decided not to bother. I sincerely hope they enforce that these muppets take it as leave.

And the general standard of driving. Jesus Christ.

[davepoth]

I had a moment when turning into the car park at work - downhill, full lock corner, slidey slidey, came within an inch or two of something solid before the front wheels had plowed enough snow to slow me down. Aside from that it was pretty easy really - pull away gently, leave a big gap, and go slow.

Bonus points to the guy who was commuting in a Nissan 200SX drift car, fully stanced, stretched tyres, the lot. VERY sideways.

[Sargeant Orange]

I've done my good deed for the year, there was a guy thumbing a lift just outside our village with two kids aged 3&4 in tow. Gave him a lift into town which was 6 miles away. He was a bit of a psycho in all honesty, said his ex wife has custody on a Friday and if he doesn't get them to her, her new boyfriend will stab him again

Then witnessed fkwittery of the highest order on the way back as a car got impatient turning right into a petrol station and lost traction due to the ramp into the station. Wheels spinning like mad, the oncoming car t boned him like a good un

[Six Fiend]

carreauchompeur said:

And the general standard of driving. Jesus Christ.

Followed a Fiesta on Greystoke Ave this afternoon - no snow, just water...he almost managed 20mph at one point! Saw more spanners than you'd find in a Snap-On factory

[FiF]

carreauchompeur said:

It's times like this that we see the British public at their very most bovine. On the whole, people's whole attitude is "Yay, free day off" rather than taking any additional effort to get to work. Utter bks like "safety" concerns meaning people think it "safest" to stay home.

There are exceptions- I mean, if your kids can't go to school then someone needs to look after them, and some roads are genuinely impassable.

Typical "snow day" at work, virtually nobody in, and some striking differences revealed like one person managing to get in completely safely from the same road that someone else decided not to bother. I sincerely hope they enforce that these muppets take it as leave.

And the general standard of driving. Jesus Christ.

Found out one organisation, which shall be nameless, has a rule, agreed with the unions, that if home address is within a certain radius, then they are expected to get in, anybody else can have a paid snow day. The radius? Just 1 mile, yes 1 fricking mile,ffs. Did I say one mile? ffs.

Agreed on general standard of driving, had to show great restraint today to avoid overtaking and prompting the " just because you've got 4wd doesn't mean to say you can go faster", to be fair they don't know also on winter tyres. But 10mph on a road which is only wet, Christ on a bike! Actually Christ on a bike would have been quicker.

[bitchstewie]

carreauchompeur said:

It's times like this that we see the British public at their very most bovine. On the whole, people's whole attitude is "Yay, free day off" rather than taking any additional effort to get to work. Utter bks like "safety" concerns meaning people think it "safest" to stay home.

I think that's a little harsh if I'm honest. I think most peoples attitude is simply not wanting to crash as the media build snow into such an "You'll die if you set foot outside" event that people believe it.

Also in a lot of towns it only takes one person on any given road to lose traction or just not know how to drive and it quickly spirals into gridlock - people can't have it both ways where they want all the idiots to stay at home but then deride people for not "making the effort" to get into work because they choose not to risk it.

[irocfan]

well I suspect the snowmageddon cheerleaders won;t be setting foot in Essex I suspect I struggled manfully home from the station after work, only in this case the struggle was to actually see any snow

[Deva Link]

bhstewie said:

Also in a lot of towns it only takes one person on any given road to lose traction or just not know how to drive and it quickly spirals into gridlock - people can't have it both ways where they want all the idiots to stay at home but then deride people for not "making the effort" to get into work because they choose not to risk it.

I think that's a fair point - you can't really tell what would have happened if normal numbers of people had been on the roads.

[croyde]

As I predicted earlier both the schools that my kids go to closed. WTF! Both in London and virtually everyone who works in them are based in London. The buses were running as were the trains and the roads were all clear.

It was barely settling yet everyone acts as if there's a war on.

When I was a kid we never got days off school for snow and it were proper snow back then, not this namby pamby non settling stuff

At least I have a day's work on Sunday as they are worried that the staffer might not be able to make it in.

ETA 1st day's work this year so now equaling last Jan's dismal total.

[Shinobi]

I work 6 miles away, got the Monaro stuck backing off the drive way, 20 mins of fiddling to get it back on the drive due to getting stuck even more when trying to go back. Buses cancelled and boss got her hilux stuck on the way to work so advised no one to attempt to come in. Seemed rational to me.

[audidoody]

Channel 4 reporter now saying he's glad he's driving a 4x4 in the snow and not a "normal" vehicle

[QuantumTokoloshi]

Empty car park, few inches of snow, is a lot of fun.

[blugnu]

carreauchompeur said:

Typical "snow day" at work, virtually nobody in, and some striking differences revealed like one person managing to get in completely safely from the same road that someone else decided not to bother. I sincerely hope they enforce that these muppets take it as leave.

And the general standard of driving. Jesus Christ.

I live on a hill. I have winter tyres. As I cleared the car this morning my neighbour (walking to the shops) commented "you're braver than I am!". I wanted to tell her I just had a car that was prepared for winter. Or, that being self-employed made such decisions easier. But I just laughed.

It's very annoying having to drive at a snails pace because hardly anyone else has prepared their cars properly.

[davepoth]

blugnu said:

I live on a hill. I have winter tyres. As I cleared the car this morning my neighbour (walking to the shops) commented "you're braver than I am!". I wanted to tell her I just had a car that was prepared for winter. Or, that being self-employed made such decisions easier. But I just laughed.

It's very annoying having to drive at a snails pace because hardly anyone else has prepared their cars properly.

I got stuck for an hour at a reasonably steep hill this morning. When I finally got to it, I found out that the only thing causing the delay was massive bellends driving up it absurdly slowly, because the council had been good enough to very thoroughly grit and plough that section of road.

[smegmore]

Oakey said:

The snowpocalypse is here in Blackpool!

You're having a laugh.

I'm staying on the prom at Bispham and apart from some dust on the side streets there's naff all.

[smegmore]

On a serious note, why is it that the moment that the media decide to generate a country-wide panic by declaring that it MIGHT SNOW IN JANUARY that the mighty British driving masses feel it prudent to proceed everywhere at 20mph due to there being a little bit of white stuff on the surrounding hills?

I've driven all around east lancs today on motorways and A-roads with nary a problem but still the brain dead muppets in their Kas and Ceeds and other sundry snotboxes are loathe to make any sort of decent progress because there is SNOW forecast?

Is this an example of the national malaise of the tenets of HSE running our lives, telling us that we are incapable of using good old fashioned common sense and taking care of ourselves in our daily lives, as the British have always done?

Or am I just a grumpy old ?

Answers on a postcard please to the Met Office.

[TangerinePool]

smegmore said:

On a serious note, why is it that the moment that the media decide to generate a country-wide panic by declaring that it MIGHT SNOW IN JANUARY that the mighty British driving masses feel it prudent to proceed everywhere at 20mph due to there being a little bit of white stuff on the surrounding hills?

I've driven all around east lancs today on motorways and A-roads with nary a problem but still the brain dead muppets in their Kas and Ceeds and other sundry snotboxes are loathe to make any sort of decent progress because there is SNOW forecast?

Is this an example of the national malaise of the tenets of HSE running our lives, telling us that we are incapable of using good old fashioned common sense and taking care of ourselves in our daily lives, as the British have always done?

Or am I just a grumpy old ?

Answers on a postcard please to the Met Office.

I think it's a worryingly fine example of how on a knife edge we are as a society - as soon as a 'crisis' is announced the reaction from the sheeple is astonishing.

Look what happens every time there's an issue with fuel, queues down the road and bread torn from the shelves.

A zombie apocalypse would spread like wildfire consuming each average citizen with ease