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Re: SNOW - 10PM Finishes on Sunday ...
WarBwastardo:
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--- Quote from: WarBwastard on February 05, 2009, 15:05:02 PM ---
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--- Quote from: George2Loose on February 05, 2009, 14:55:47 PM ---
--- Quote from: HaworthBantam on February 05, 2009, 14:08:20 PM ---
Got to admit that the way this country appears to fall apart when 6 inches of snow falls is rather pathetic.
If I were you I"d forget about the snow and concentrate on getting to day 2 - my own personal record on that score is zero from 8 attempts :D
Good luck.
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Bit off topic but what should we do? Spend millions and millions on snow equipment so when it does snow for a week every 19 years we"re prepared? Yes snow brings us to a standstill but I"d rather that for a few days than spend £££"s of money on equipment that"ll hardly be used
Besides I wouldn"t have been snowed in today! :D
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+1
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It"s not millions of pounds worth of new equipment needed, it"s a bit of common sense from the people who run this country. It"s not just unexpected snow fall that renders the country inoperable. It"s any weather more turbulent than how it feels in Debenhams. It rains here pretty much every day for example and yet we all nearly drowned a couple of years ago because all our towns are built on floodplains.
We"re just sh*t as a nation at dealing with things.
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How is common sense going to clear snow from our roads?
Having spent most of my career involved with winter events I can assure you that millions would be needed to deal with this level of snowfall.
If you think we are bad then you need to travel more.
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It"s not just this level of snow that grinds the country to a halt and I have traveled.
HaworthBantam:
With apologies to the original poster for the obvious hijacking of this thread, I have to ask a question.
I live in the South Pennines, I"ve lived here for 42 years, I grew up here, I went to school here, we have things called hills.
When I was younger we had proper winters, snow such as we"ve had lately were not every 18 or 19 year events, they were pretty much yearly events. Since the onset of global warming the amount of snow has tailed off somewhat, all I seem to remember in the last 10 years is more rain.
Anyway, during my school days and all the snow we experienced, not once were any of the schools I went to shut. Yet this week, every school in this area was shut - Why ? What"s changed since I was at school ?
WarBwastardo:
--- Quote from: HaworthBantam on February 05, 2009, 15:27:57 PM ---
With apologies to the original poster for the obvious hijacking of this thread, I have to ask a question.
I live in the South Pennines, I"ve lived here for 42 years, I grew up here, I went to school here, we have things called hills.
When I was younger we had proper winters, snow such as we"ve had lately were not every 18 or 19 year events, they were pretty much yearly events. Since the onset of global warming the amount of snow has tailed off somewhat, all I seem to remember in the last 10 years is more rain.
Anyway, during my school days and all the snow we experienced, not once were any of the schools I went to shut. Yet this week, every school in this area was shut - Why ? What"s changed since I was at school ?
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The Health and Safety Executive is a much bigger department now.
George2Loose:
I don"t know how much had changed but people who are comparing our coping mechanisms with those who have a lot more snowfall than us are just plain ignorent. Im sure if we were prepared adequately with snow mobiles and trains which blow snow off the track that those same people would be complaining about the cost to the tax payer!
Mikeyboy9361:
I was North of Boston in the good old US of A about 3 years ago, and we must have had about 3 feet of snow overnight, by 10am all the main roads were clear, and all schools and businesses were open. And a great days skiing was had by all. As George said they were prepared and had mechanisms in place, but we are really c**p at anything out of the ordinary in this country.
Conversley I was in Sarasota this summer, when there was a hurricane alert, and we were actually on voluntary evacuation, okay it was a bit breezy, but talk about over reaction! The next day the whole area closed down, and honestly it was no worse than a windy day in Yorkshire!
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