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
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
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:
Every line except the Victoria line has a significant amount of above ground sections. Third rail doesn't work with snow on it.
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:
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: