1- it is, the wheather isnt bad, it's just winter weather 2- they have worse weather and problems but just carry on and deal with it 3- it's not summer your right, it's just a cold day with winter weather, the world doesn't stop because there's a few mm of snow 4- just drive to the conditions and dont be a dick who goes out for no reason, carry on with normal working life and don't act like its the end of the world
I'm honestly amazed he's not had a heart attack yet, the way that thundercunt acts. Wish Barmby had actually decked him when he was given the chance. Would've been worth the fine and suspension.
Farmer driving his Land Rover defender on mud and snow tyres gets passed on a snowy road by a fancy audi 4 x 4 on tyres as wide as an F1 car, a couple of miles further on Landy man comes across Audi in a ditch the driver thought 4 x 4 meant he would be OK. Rural school bus gets stuck half way up an icy hill, no problem just reverse back down a bit to a layby big enough for the bus to turn around in and go another way or home. The school bus or its driver are not permitted to reverse (?) It's sat there blocking the road waiting for a recovery vehicle to tow it up the hill (like that's going to happen any time soon) No real point, just 2 stories of many related to the weather
Not sure if it has improved in recent years but the first big snowfall of winter always used to shut Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Not exactly a surprise that every year they've got snow is it? Maybe every country struggles with sudden adverse weather. I heard yesterday that in Paris they still had no boats on the Seine last week. It is weeks since the floods were news here, but still an issue there.
Schools and rail companies get criticised for closing, but they have no choice. British society has changed into one that looks for financial compensation for anything or any inconvenience. Schools have it everyday, parents threatening to sue because their child fell over and grazed a knee. Rail companies and airlines obliged to compensate or provide alternative transport. Let’s face the fact that when there is a whole industry that is based on stuff like being sick on holiday, risk will be avoided by cancelling.
Folk today, pathetic. Back in the winter of 2010 we manned up and got on with it. When the water pipes froze up we just got a strip wash in the snow and used a lump of coal for soap.
Was that the one when it was really cold? People already seem to have forgotten that minus 15 was the norm. The snow genuinely didn’t melt on my street for over a month.
It was the coldest December for a century. It really did snow that year. We were having to dig people's cars out at work. Many just abandoned. I walked to cott square from castle hill in a blizzard, passing a **** off truck who's wheels were just spinning on castle road. Managed to jump on the last bus running that night.
Good old winter of 2010, when you could take a image of the UK and it would look like this... please log in to view this image
I’m sure I remember it being minus 20 in some places. It’s weird that people seem to have forgotten such a ‘real winter’ that was so recent.
Remember it well. I walk to work and walking two miles in deep snow actually keeps you very warm as it's bloody hard work. Funny thing is, minus 16 felt no colder than minus 7. Me and a mate showing our community spirit by pushing stranded cars off on the way home and starting to get a bit pissed off by the tenth. It was fun though. The floods were a different story, they were absolutely depressing and I pray they never happen again.
Overall 1963 was the worst. Lasted longer as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_1962–63_in_the_United_Kingdom
I was delivering papers that year, the morning ones delivered by train from Manchester each morning, and I don't recall them being cancelled at anytime. Delayed a while yes, cue grumpy customers asking 'where the 'ell I'd been' the snow a foot or more deep. We are talking Daily Sketch and the Christine Keeler/Mandy Rice era here, did wanders for my sex education reading it all, even if I was stood in a foot of snow in my wellies
Trains from Hull to Scarborough didn't run for a while. They were dropping foodstuff for live stock by helicopter. Good year 1963. TWTWTW, scandals, the Beatles breaking through, young and working class people breaking through in loads of areas, going from a grey, drab country to a technicolour one. Philip Larkin summed it up well.
According to my mother 1947 winter was worse than the 1963 one. I was born January 1948 and was born at home because they were unable to get out the house to the hospital.
We went to the Christmas Markets in Manchester one evening that Winter. Sat waiting in the car for the train to arrive it was -11. I remember thinking I should have brought a coat. I was wrong, the light jumper was adequate.
just driven up to Hull from the south. Traffic was stationary from south of Woodall services, back along the M18 to about 3 miles east of the A1 turning. Avoid if you can!
