It's snowing here in London!

I am a lady...I would never use the word 'dump' in reference to bodily waste. :shock:

For the first time in a long time it has snowed at my parents and it has stuck!! Not for long I am sure the sea always makes sure its too warm to stay around for long....

Still no snow here - just frost, hail and ice.

I dont like snow in England.
It is embarrassing how we cannot cope.
It took me 7 hours to 79 miles yesterday. Not as bad as some areas but still a complete joke.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Stewart Dowling wrote:I dont like snow in England.
It is embarrassing how we cannot cope.
It took me 7 hours to 79 miles yesterday. Not as bad as some areas but still a complete joke.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

I have to agree with that.

The general standard of driving when we get a bit of snow is appalling. Add that to the complete lack of winter preperation most people and councils seem to make, and we have instant disaster :cry:

It took me over three hours to travel the almost three miles home from work yesterday :shock: I must have passed at least six accidents and seen numerous stranded 4x4's, and all the while people were hooting me for leaving a 20 foot gap between myself and the car in front when stationary. That soon stopped when the car behind me suddenly started sliding forward after being stopped for over 5 minutes. The driver was quite shocked that something like that could happen, but also rather thankfull that I had enough room to get out of his way.

Funny how he started leaving bigger gaps after that :twisted:

There are a number of factors why this nation of ours is rubbish when it gets cold:

1. Forecasting is never ever accurate enough
2. Preparation of roads by local authorities is not proavtive enough and once it has snowed they dont come out again and try to clear anything.
3. No one uses winter tyres
4. Not enough people know how to drive sensibly, see FQ's story above.
5. People either think they are invincible in 4x4's hammering along in thick snow and ice, or drive at 15mph on clear roads. Both types of people should be fined for bad driving.
6. There are not enough traffic police out when conditions are bad to patrol and control.
7. I would hazard a guess that what we use to make our road surfaces is cheap and does not contain anything that helps matters in times of low temperatures. Our roads simply seem to freeze although a lack of gritting is mainly responsible.
8. The councils need to stop lying to us and telling us they have done their best.
9. Why do people still insist on going out when they dont NEED to when conditions are bad?
10. Employers need to be more sensible and either allow employees to work from home when its bad, or let people go home early. Its heavy traffic that makes the roads worse - queuing on icy roads = bumps and accidents, and worsening of conditions.

It is coming down hard here, if this doesn't relent it there may be too much snow for me to get skiing tomorrow :shock:

This is the view out of our bedroom window this afternoon :)