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@mzb wrote:
We are a country of wimps …
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/4512138/World-watches-British-weather-in-bemusement.html
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Speak for yourself mate ….. I’m no wimp TYVM. :- :
IMAAWNJYP
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@Rosepetal wrote:
As much as I love the snow Ive now had 3 and a half days off because of it and I’m beginning to get the jitters! I want to get out but have no chance at the moment, I can’t bear driving in it and am relying on neighbours for supplies. However, I;m going to attempt it tomorrow I think, I’m packing a bag with a shovel, blanket, candle, flask of coffee, two mobile phones, wellies and a bar of chocolate! Have I missed anything out?
something to light the candle with ??? lol
@jewel* wrote:
@Rosepetal wrote:
As much as I love the snow Ive now had 3 and a half days off because of it and I’m beginning to get the jitters! I want to get out but have no chance at the moment, I can’t bear driving in it and am relying on neighbours for supplies. However, I;m going to attempt it tomorrow I think, I’m packing a bag with a shovel, blanket, candle, flask of coffee, two mobile phones, wellies and a bar of chocolate! Have I missed anything out?
something to light the candle with ??? lol
Ive got five lighters and box of matches ! lol
@Rosepetal wrote:
@jewel* wrote:
@Rosepetal wrote:
As much as I love the snow Ive now had 3 and a half days off because of it and I’m beginning to get the jitters! I want to get out but have no chance at the moment, I can’t bear driving in it and am relying on neighbours for supplies. However, I;m going to attempt it tomorrow I think, I’m packing a bag with a shovel, blanket, candle, flask of coffee, two mobile phones, wellies and a bar of chocolate! Have I missed anything out?
something to light the candle with ??? lol
Ive got five lighters and box of matches ! lol
Personally I think you’d be better off with a torch ! :lol: Don’t forget the spare batteries though. :wink:
@sarah_1 wrote:
@Rosepetal wrote:
@jewel* wrote:
@Rosepetal wrote:
As much as I love the snow Ive now had 3 and a half days off because of it and I’m beginning to get the jitters! I want to get out but have no chance at the moment, I can’t bear driving in it and am relying on neighbours for supplies. However, I;m going to attempt it tomorrow I think, I’m packing a bag with a shovel, blanket, candle, flask of coffee, two mobile phones, wellies and a bar of chocolate! Have I missed anything out?
something to light the candle with ??? lol
cigarettes is deffo a must and an empty bottle for peeing into
Ive got five lighters and box of matches ! lolPersonally I think you’d be better off with a torch ! :lol: Don’t forget the spare batteries though. :wink:
OMFG its snowing here again, I’m going to need a much bigger candle!
So now that the record snowfall (in the South East at any rate) has abated and life returns to some semblance of normality – were the Media being unfair to the powers that be or merely hyping up a minor drama into a major crisis as usual???
OK so there wern’t any snowploughs. No surprise there though. At a cost of something like £100,000 each and with a possible use of maybe once or twice every 20 years or so – does it REALLY make sense to buy a fleet of ’em and have them sitting rotting and rusting away just in case they might be needed one day.
On this basis we’d invest millions now – and maybe use them around the year 2029….. assuming they’s start up when they were needed and assuming that anybody could remember how to use them.
How about the big “gritting disaster”? The Media conveniently forgets that local councils have been gritting (i.e. salting) the roads all through December and January as we ‘suffered’ “one of the coldest winters on record” – according to the Media anyway.
They draw parallells between us and say Norway or Switzerland in terms of keeping roads open – neatly forgetting that road salt is totally ineffective against deep snow and that they use a glycol based spray and snowploughs on their roads to keep them passable.
Oh and deary me I nearly forgot. motorists in Scandinavian countries (and Switzerland) routinely fit either snow chains or snow tyres to their vehicles all through the winter as THEY know that trying to drive in heavy snow and ice with ‘normal’ tyres is a sure fire way to end up in a ditch.
We British on the other hand, reserve the right to drive around at speed on semi-impassable roads and blame the government, the local council, or indeed anybody but ourselves when it all ends in tears.
As a footnote: If it wasn’t for these “national disasters” occuring every so often, the good ladies of the WRVS (and numerous other ‘caring’ organisations) wouldn’t have anybody to force their hot tea and ersatz sympathy onto would they?
They’d have to retreat to their ‘nice’ little homes and knit some more woollen socks for the poor & needy. Now THAT would be a real disaster wouldn’t it?
When you look at the cost of a few thousand snow ploughs it looks pretty insignificant compared to the cost of other unused things that the British government has in its ownership,just for one there is the small matter of sumbmarines,they cost billions to manufacture and i dare say cost billions a year for their upkeep …. then again they are a useful “deterrent”,but the fact of the matter is,snow ploughs do actually save lives ….. you don’t see many submarines sailing down the M1 with the Captain in his conning tower shouting “snow ahoy” :?
I know it’s slightly off topic,well in a way,but me thinks the country spends a lot more money on worse things than snow ploughs.
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