Snow in the UK - everything stops.
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Why not ?
you can shovel all the snow of the driveway with it lol
you can shovel all the snow of the driveway with it lol
Ian Anderson
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Yes
Schools closed
Trains cancelled
No London Busses at all
All this for about 6" of snow
How do Scandanavia and Canada manage?
Just the Poms are not able to be prepared - even though this has been predicted for over a week!
Ian
Schools closed
Trains cancelled
No London Busses at all
All this for about 6" of snow
How do Scandanavia and Canada manage?
Just the Poms are not able to be prepared - even though this has been predicted for over a week!
Ian
Just took me three bloody hours to get to white city (BBC) from my home in Upminster. It'd usually be a 1hr 15 min journey by train/tube. Almost every single bloody tube was delayed or cancelled...........THEY RUN UNDER-BLOODY-GROUND!!!!!! TRHERE'S NO F**IN' SNOW UNDERGROUND!!!!!!!
Sorry rant over.
Simon
Sorry rant over.
Simon
That's a bit unfair Ian. I grew up with blizzards and severe snowstorms in the UK with snow lasting sometimes up to 3 months and we got by because it was something we knew was going to happen and we all had experience of it. Plus, there was no where near the amount of traffic to clog up the back roads.
Even now, for example, many public buildings in the UK don't have air conditioning because fiscal prudence would tell you that it's not necessary for only 2 months in the year and if snow falls for 24 hours once every 5 years, why waste money planning or designing mass transit systems for an event which may never (and usually doesn't) happen?
Stop bashing us! We've had enough from Brown & Co. and from everyone else who won all the wars for the last 100 years because were so bloody incompetent! Actually, it ain't my fault or anyone else I know.
You could always go back to God's Country mate...I bet things are running pretty well, there :laugh:
Even now, for example, many public buildings in the UK don't have air conditioning because fiscal prudence would tell you that it's not necessary for only 2 months in the year and if snow falls for 24 hours once every 5 years, why waste money planning or designing mass transit systems for an event which may never (and usually doesn't) happen?
Stop bashing us! We've had enough from Brown & Co. and from everyone else who won all the wars for the last 100 years because were so bloody incompetent! Actually, it ain't my fault or anyone else I know.
You could always go back to God's Country mate...I bet things are running pretty well, there :laugh:
Every line except the Victoria line has a significant amount of above ground sections. Third rail doesn't work with snow on it.
You guys,
Six inches of snow and the UK is shut down. I bet the guys on this site that live here, upstate NewYork and the Northern Midwest are snickering. We usually get up a little earlier. We don't let the transportation drivers leave until there replacements show up either. I will post some pictures of my front yard to show how much snow we have had.
Dave
Six inches of snow and the UK is shut down. I bet the guys on this site that live here, upstate NewYork and the Northern Midwest are snickering. We usually get up a little earlier. We don't let the transportation drivers leave until there replacements show up either. I will post some pictures of my front yard to show how much snow we have had.
Dave
the same down here in Italy.
Lucky me Monday is closing half day for shops...so I look outside my windows, saw canadian scenery...made some piss..return to bed..my girl there,nice morning F... ,..and now a cup of good italian coffee.... isnt so bad life, isnt it?HAHA..
Lucky me Monday is closing half day for shops...so I look outside my windows, saw canadian scenery...made some piss..return to bed..my girl there,nice morning F... ,..and now a cup of good italian coffee.... isnt so bad life, isnt it?HAHA..
We usually managed, somehow...
One inch of snow and headlines screams "winter surpriced drivers" or "slippery road caused serious accident". Every winter. But it`s never drivers fault :idea:
Here rains first snow every year in November.
Few degrees below zero (cels), 10"+ snow, studded tyres, 4 wheel drive turbo = ahhh :thumbsup:
JimmyMac
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Here here Keith !
Aye ! ~ when I was a lad I walked through blizzards, four miles to school with nothing but a pair of flip-flops on my feet and a newspaper under my string vest to keep the wind out, and it did me good.:cry2::cry2::cry2:
Here's the view from my kitchen window today, this is the first dusting of snow I have seen here since I bought the Hampshire house in twenty-odd years (I am a contractor so always made it to work).
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JimmyMac
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Dave,
I worked in Mississauga during the winter a few years ago. My goodness, it was cold there, so you have my respect.
This morning, I watched my English neighbour who is unaccustomed to this climate, drive up the hill in his wife's motor.
Well he got up there alright, but the kiddymobile then slid backwards down into his drive and through his closed garage doors.
Please do not eat the yellow snow on my doorstep.
I worked in Mississauga during the winter a few years ago. My goodness, it was cold there, so you have my respect.
This morning, I watched my English neighbour who is unaccustomed to this climate, drive up the hill in his wife's motor.
Well he got up there alright, but the kiddymobile then slid backwards down into his drive and through his closed garage doors.
Please do not eat the yellow snow on my doorstep.
HHHMMMMM, Central line is not even running on the above ground sections, just in the tunnels. There's usually 1 min between trains (and they are rammed) today it was 20 mins between trains
Ian Anderson
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I know Keith
Tongue in cheak but I remember 18 years ago when the Government shouted about the wrong kind of smow! There was about the same snow fall as we had last night and everything stopped for 3 days!
I actually made it 1/2 way to work when my boss phoned and said they had decided to close the office for the day - He lives about 1/2 mile from the office and gave up at his front door! I was driving the 12 miles there and had done about 6 (never more than 18mph on the Citroen digital speedo)
I actually thought it was funny watching people skidding in their "hatches" and immediately brake lights on and more corrections. Can they not feel what is happening in their car / learn't how to correct a skid? Skid pan training should be mandatory for all people passing their test!
Anyway I got home and my Daughter was chuffed as school was cancelled
She made a Snow Elephant!
What will happen tomorrow when another 4 - 6 inches of snow falls tonight and the melting stuff from today freezes?
Still some beautiful scenes today!
Ian
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I think that proves a point. No-one knows how to drive on ice or snow anymore because there never is any for any length of time. When I first passed my test in the early '60's one of the first things I bought for the car was a set of snow chains, and you couldn't go too far before you heard the characteristic drumming noise of a car with chains.
I also remember the "wrong kind of snow" story, but it was perfectly true! The "snow" was actually fine powdery crystals, not like snow at all, and it penetrated the filters for the train traction motors and burnt out the armatures. I believe they modified the traction motors at enormous cost but the freak "snow" never materialised again.
One of the penalties for living in a country with such a mild climate is a few hours/days of chaos. It's the law!
I also remember the "wrong kind of snow" story, but it was perfectly true! The "snow" was actually fine powdery crystals, not like snow at all, and it penetrated the filters for the train traction motors and burnt out the armatures. I believe they modified the traction motors at enormous cost but the freak "snow" never materialised again.
One of the penalties for living in a country with such a mild climate is a few hours/days of chaos. It's the law!
Hi guys
Avice on local radio says travel only if journey is essential, well monday is my usual day off and I take my wife Irene out for breakfast at Newark 20 miles away,esential? hell yes, need to call at the motor parts factors for some more bits for James KVA build,Nottinghamshires road gritters working well!
cheers
John.
Avice on local radio says travel only if journey is essential, well monday is my usual day off and I take my wife Irene out for breakfast at Newark 20 miles away,esential? hell yes, need to call at the motor parts factors for some more bits for James KVA build,Nottinghamshires road gritters working well!
cheers
John.
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