I am really pissed now, i need to go into hospital this morning for a scan appointment and my only way of getting there was bus. Either that or a one hour walk. And now the buses have been cancelled. This is so pathetic, the bus travels on one of the busiest roads around here so i have no doubt it would be clear of snow in a couple of hours (it's now 5am), because of the amount of traffic going through it.

I was saying to my son yesterday how big of a deal they are making this out to be. It's snow, it's winter...God, have we really turned into such wussies that the media think they can scare us by reporting on normal weather conditions?!

It's all fear, fear, fear. We get news reports in summer about the heat (God forbid it should be hot in summer ) and now we get scared of snow in winter. Absolutely pathetic.
(Not saying we ARE scared, just that the media thinks it CAN scare us)

Originally posted by DrumsRfun
Thats not a sitx,thats a snowstorm.
I am from Canada and right now theres a few feet of snow from all the accumulation.
5 inches is laughable here.
Hardly a sitx situation.

ya but we have plows and stuff

everyone in the cold areas knows how to Deal with snow

these people in temperate zones, they will DIE if it snows more than 3-5inches in one day

they simply wouldnt have a clue how to deal with it

*Clue
Get a Shovel and dig

There's currently around 5 inches of snow where I am.


Maybe a breed of super Yetis will emerge out of nowhere, forcing us to gather together and fortify the nearest indoor shopping centre...

It is just ridiculous-- a few comments

- The nanny state approach has made so much of the younger generations helpless without perfect roads, instant communication, instant food. I know that may inflame some people, but the floods a couple of years ago highlighted that very clearly. The older generations are much more able to adapt to coping if there is no electric , or if one is snowed in, or have a communication cut-off, etc etc . they have faced it before. Also the older generations dress more for the weather – than looks....

- most people now do not know how to drive in snow and ice - there has been so little since the 1980's , except one year when we had a load. There are no “winter tyres” or “snow tyres” or “snow chains” easily available -- In germany one expects to change to “winter tyres” – here to get “winter tyres” it is a special order ! I think I drove using snow chains here once....
I remember I used to put a shovel, old carpet and sack of sand & salt in the boot (boot (uk)=trunk in USA english) , snow chains, and some emergency food & small camp cooker - because in the 70’s/80’s one expected bad weather, and equipped to cope with bad conditions and to survive if one did get stuck – especially in high rural areas like the peak district, Wales, Scotland, etc where one could easily get caught in a show drift... so one took stuff to get oneself out of it, and took stuff to just camp-it-out of necessary.... Now people laugh at you if you put such stuff in your car...
Buxton (highest town in England) was often snowed in – all access shut off – I often had to go there (relatives) and had some interesting snow-time adventures !

- All infrastructure has been built based on "life as normal" - one cannot even get water without electric (notice the lack of water towers in the uk - they have been replaced by electric pressure pumps), gas heating is electrically controlled, and so on . Solid fuel stoves are becoming popular again – partly for style, partly because one still has heat and can boil a kettle even if all power is off.

There is so little really bad weather here in the UK, that there is little investment in equipment to deal with it . Hence when there is bad weather, things grind to halt for a short while, but before long everything is back on track. But it is rare... I think there was one year – just one, where they brought in a “snow plough train” in from Switzerland or somewhere to dig out the rail tracks – usually it is not worth having anything like that here.

The news has got paranoid about bad weather, ever since we had a bad storm which was not reported and the weather centres came in for a lot of bad criticism because no-one was prepared – so now they go “over the top” with warnings.

Originally posted by sjb5000
It is just ridiculous-- a few comments

- The nanny state approach has made so much of the younger generations helpless without perfect roads, instant communication, instant food. I know that may inflame some people, but the floods a couple of years ago highlighted that very clearly.

No you are 100% correct, the rampant nanny state, PC, elf N safety and the perverse evil of socialism has wrecked this country, Trade unions, the Lefties etc should have all been executed in 1945.

Our neurotic preoccupation with the weather here in the UK is a global cliche, is it not? Funny how the BBC eclipsed this weekend's news of European protests, especially France, with a little snow. News of the civil unrest was thin & sparse to the point of dereliction of duty.

We all know the media is a government's lapdog but, dear friends abroad, don't labour under the assumption that the BEEB is what it was.

Aunty lost her teeth years ago.