Moan Moan Moan...........
Ok we had a bit of snow, biggest fall in 18 years as it happens........
Now we are crap because we weren't prepared, who's going to pay for snow ploughs to sit idle for 18 years.
Get over it, it will be gone tomorrow.
It's a bit over-sensationalised this year!
For instance the top headline was the snow, where in the same day a bloke walked into a police station in Kabul and blew himself up, taking 21
policemen with him and countless others injured.
But at least we got to see some ootage of some snow though...
Yeah Jon,
I'm with you.
B
Working from home today and we have the Mother In Law staying.
She is an avid daytime TV addict - which I can hear in the background...
The news has been shafting on all day about the weather. Enough grit, not enough grit, ordering more grit, £17k per bl00dy grit lorry run, why not use
ploughs, should schools be open, should they announce closures the day before or on the day, why do schools close - they didn't when I was a kid,
kids being injured sledging - should have been at school, buses not running, trains not running, wrong type of snow, were we prepared, what should we
do different, people slipping over, should there have been more grit, the aged struggling with snow and ice, we really should cater better for there
needs blah, blah, blah
Bit sick of it now! Think I will make her sit through Saw V as penance...
It will be all over in a couple of days - and they will find something else to shaft on about.
Rant over.... for now.
Had to laugh at a guy on the news last night, compared the uk to a third world country just because the roads weren't gritted in time pmsl
It has cost me a bundle! I was in Kuwait specifically for a meeting involving two people who were supposed to come out from London on Sunday night.
One flying from Glasgow just made the plane the other was delayed by snow and 10 minuites late at the gate so was denied boarding. The plane was sat
at the gate for 2 hours and it took another 3 hours on the ground waiting for de-icing then waiting for a slot on the single runway so long it had to
go back for de-icing. It seems heathrow only have one mobile de-icing rig that goes from gate to gate.
Anyway one guy arrived 5 hours late the other was stuck in London so meeting did not happen. I have to get to another meeting in Kuwait and will lose
costs of my flight and hotel plus another precious car fettelleing weekend!
Proper airports like Amsterdam have 4 fixed de-icing rigs at the end of the taxiway so planes go there get de-iced and sent straight out on the
runway so no having to get de-iced several times with whatever costs in chemicals and pollution as well as needless delays.
Even in mild winters the odd day is cold enough to completely screw the UK transport network. There are not enough snow ploughs, gritters and people
trained to operate them period, it is not as if it was rocket science or multimillion pound equipment we re talking about here!
Caber
Good time to practice drifting, how do you think the Fins got so good. We drive sideways all winter teaches car control, except for the SUV crowd, they usually throw it into the first ditch.
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Originally posted by Jon Ison
Moan Moan Moan...........
Ok we had a bit of snow, biggest fall in 18 years as it happens........
Now we are crap because we weren't prepared, who's going to pay for snow ploughs to sit idle for 18 years.
Get over it, it will be gone tomorrow.
There was a guy from the council on the radio saying it cost 17 grand a trip to send the gritter out!!! and in essex (look it up) it costs 30!!!
blimey
At least it stopped them talking about the credit crunch and Obarma for a day.
If you listen to the news or read those comic's they call news papers we would be all topping ourselves by now!!!!!!!!!!!
BBC 6 o'clock news to-day from Devon
"The sun went down, it got dark and cold"
Wow, scary!
it was daft coverage indeed. In leeds the council did a cracking job IMHO, grit everywhere, snowplow had been down nearly every road i could find, including small residential roads. Roads were dry as a bone.
i think its fukkin ace actually, its the first time in AGES i can turn on the news and not be hit by doom and gloom credit crunch news
but just think of the effect on the economy! 