The official 2024/2025 snowmageddon disappointment thread
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fttm said:
I know you Brit guys are being hit but on the Canadian Prairies we're getting hammered . Big storm last Tues/Weds now getting another foot , feckin insane entrance to winter .
It hit 20c here on Saturday, I washed the car. It also tried snowing an hour or so back, but was very half-hearted and gave up.
k all, despite it having snowed for about 13 hours so far. 
Do you reckon the rest of the world looks at us and shakes their heads as to how we deal with weather?
A week of hot weather in the summer (if we're lucky) and people are dying of thirst and exposure. We get an inch or 2 of snow if we are lucky in the winter pretty much anywhere except the Highlands and movement becomes completely impossible, with cars crashing left right and centre. People stranded in the middle of nowhere, rescue operations etc.
We have an environment agency who are more interested in protecting overgrown waterways wildlife than the waterways actually being able to pass water, resulting in yearly flooding of rural areas exacerbated by constant building on flood plains and seemingly no-one being able to grasp how drainage works.
I'll never get why most people in the UK aren't using all season tyres, our boring car is on cross climates and they are perfect for it. It sees ski hols in the Alps and proper snow but also 40 degrees plus in southern Europe during the summer and they function fine, why people have a mental block over "winter" tyres I don't understand, bearing in mind how sedately everyone drives these days anyone who is driving a "normal" car doesn't need a sporty summer tyre bearing in mind it's only really going to function at its best for about one month a year. Most of the year we spend in the crossover point between summer and winter tyres with winter tyres being useful for about 3 months of the year with cold road temps. The difference being that even a full on winter tyre won't cause you to fall off the road in the middle of summer, or be unable to get on to your driveway/up a gentle hill. Remove winter tyres from the equation and fit all seasons and unless you've managed to find an empty road without dawdlers or speed cameras you will be happy with them 12 months a year.
A week of hot weather in the summer (if we're lucky) and people are dying of thirst and exposure. We get an inch or 2 of snow if we are lucky in the winter pretty much anywhere except the Highlands and movement becomes completely impossible, with cars crashing left right and centre. People stranded in the middle of nowhere, rescue operations etc.
We have an environment agency who are more interested in protecting overgrown waterways wildlife than the waterways actually being able to pass water, resulting in yearly flooding of rural areas exacerbated by constant building on flood plains and seemingly no-one being able to grasp how drainage works.
I'll never get why most people in the UK aren't using all season tyres, our boring car is on cross climates and they are perfect for it. It sees ski hols in the Alps and proper snow but also 40 degrees plus in southern Europe during the summer and they function fine, why people have a mental block over "winter" tyres I don't understand, bearing in mind how sedately everyone drives these days anyone who is driving a "normal" car doesn't need a sporty summer tyre bearing in mind it's only really going to function at its best for about one month a year. Most of the year we spend in the crossover point between summer and winter tyres with winter tyres being useful for about 3 months of the year with cold road temps. The difference being that even a full on winter tyre won't cause you to fall off the road in the middle of summer, or be unable to get on to your driveway/up a gentle hill. Remove winter tyres from the equation and fit all seasons and unless you've managed to find an empty road without dawdlers or speed cameras you will be happy with them 12 months a year.
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