Snow Hysteria..

[M H]

Just flicked on morning telly (due to my insomnia - it's a day off for me), and am getting pretty sick of the gobshites on the telly hamming up the snow situation. It's like they got caught out on monday, so now they don't want to be caught out again, but they're going waaaay over the top.. I'm in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and there is NO snow outside here.. any little flurries we've had over the past 48 hours have quickly turned to sleet due to our proximity to the coast... the Met office forcast backs this up.. yet the Anglia TV forcast is predicting 4-5 inches, and my mum is telling me that people arn't coming into work round here because "OOHH, THE SNOW IS SOOOOOO BAD!!".. I drive on the back lanes round here every day in my van, and it was maybe a little icy, but perfectly passable, in fact yesterday, it was more slushy puddles than anything else.. I drove over to stansted airport to drop off 30 boxes of paper yesterday- plenty of sleet and fog - but no snow..
I'm driving to hull to play some records tonight, I called the organiser last night, and the situation is pretty much the same their, a little bit of snow, but more likely sleet and rain.. The GF, coming from Lithuania, thinks it's pretty funny seeing how people react here to what would be a daily event from november to february where she comes from.. I know it's bad west side, but telling people not to go out, when the roads over this side are perfectly clear.. I guess the one good upshot is the roads will be empty...

so what's the snow really like near you, I mean REALLY like?

[Loz]

http://nodataavailable.com/Loz/winterwonderland.jpg

This was yesterday. Not that much better today. Tried to get into work, slid into 2 verges, despite going only 10 mph, so phoned in and asked for a day's leave. Living right in the country means none of the roads around here were treated last night, so I can even make it to a major road.

[M H]

yeah, I heard luton was bad, I think though if you're far east enough, you miss it.. I could well be eating my words by this afternoon though.. we'll see...

[Daddys Girl]

Was coming down heavy until about 15 minutes ago in East London... it looks fine. I wonder if by this afternoon I'll be eating my words too..

[Loz]

it's snowing again now

[Loz]

fucking hell, it's absolutely pelting it down (as much as snow can pelt - there is a lot of it falling from the sky, certainly)

my webcam can't capture it, as it's falling too quickly, so it just looks blurry. Glad I came home again.

[Laszlo]

Got up at 5am this morning to drive to London from Devon - no fucking chance all roads west are closed - so I'm now back home....feel like in an episode of the Prisoner ;)

[JE:5]

A bit like this -

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/krankenhaus/DSC00049.jpg

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Got up at 5am this morning to drive to London from Devon - no fucking chance all roads west are closed - so I'm now back home....feel like in an episode of the Prisoner ;)

nice http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7873628.stm

I might start some REAL snow hysteria in brighton, get completely hysterical about the snow which only I can see... it's dry as bone here.

[Laszlo]

Did check traffic updates and it seemed the A38 was open again - but it wasn't. Just looked outside and it's snowing again. Arsewipes!

[Brownthing]

Is this the snow backlash?

[Patrick]

It's just wet and horrible here, but no snow. Apparently the north of the county and anywhere on higher ground is fucked though.

[thepigjockey]

Hey UK, the rest of Europe is LARFING AT YOU!!!

[Spandex]

We had proper snow here twice... 4-6 inches. Our road (tiny with about 15 houses) was a skating rink... fairly tough to get cars in and out.. but once you'd skated 50 yards to the main road it was all fine. Was worse out in Southwell etc.. everything ground to a halt :)

My front garden when I left the house yesterday morning...

http://spandex.dreamhosters.com/SnowGarden.jpg

[skosh]

snow fair!

[thetonewrecker]

Nobody made a snowman?

[skosh]

havn't had enough snow to make a snowman in edinburgh

[Irrungenwirrungen]

I had to abandon my car on the way home from work yesterday.

[Orang Utan]

There hasn't been any snow in London and all the snow on the ground is melting now. Goodbye London Snow.

[Patrick]

It's snowing loads here now, but it's not sticking because it's so wet from the rain earlier.

[AVX23]

Hey UK, the rest of Europe is LARFING AT YOU!!!

!!!! correction !!!!!

Southern ENGLAND the rest of Europe is LARFING AT YOU you bunch of workshy cock-ends, what's wrong, the credit crunch (that your bankers helped create) got you feeling a bit down, can't afford petrol for your porche?

Fuck straight off back to Hell you bunch of old women, no wonder you need the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh and little men from Nepal to fight for ya !!!

I feel sorry for all of you good people that have to live amongst these scum, don't worry - there's always room in the North if you wanna defect - loose the accents first tho eh ;)

[Loz]

Of course, the scotch aren't worried about getting to work, since most of them are on benefits, innit.

[olv]

Got up at 5am this morning to drive to London from Devon - no fucking chance all roads west are closed - so I'm now back home....feel like in an episode of the Prisoner ;)

you comin up to london then?

[Laszlo]

you comin up to london then?

yeah trying to - moving back for good aswel - we were coming up for some flat viewings. Must get together soon :)

[thepigjockey]

!!!! correction !!!!!

Southern ENGLAND the rest of Europe is LARFING AT YOU you bunch of workshy cock-ends, what's wrong, the credit crunch (that your bankers helped create) got you feeling a bit down, can't afford petrol for your porche?

Fuck straight off back to Hell you bunch of old women, no wonder you need the Scots, the Irish, the Welsh and little men from Nepal to fight for ya !!!

I feel sorry for all of you good people that have to live amongst these scum, don't worry - there's always room in the North if you wanna defect - loose the accents first tho eh ;)

I did actually mean the UK, but I was just referring to how people/councils/transport systems there are not used to snow.

But if you want to rant about that bunch of workshy porsche driving old women scum banker cockends down south I'll happily join in.

Although I'm one of 'them' myself :-p

[olv]

yeah trying to - moving back for good aswel - we were coming up for some flat viewings. Must get together soon :)

cool, check yer pm

[AVX23]

Of course, the scotch aren't worried about getting to work, since most of them are on benefits, innit.

No, we're simply not feeling it becasue we're all in Afghanistan and Iraq grabbin some shopping for you bunch of loosers ;)

[joe pinapples]

No, we're simply not feeling it becasue we're all in Afghanistan and Iraq grabbin some shopping for you bunch of loosers ;)

scots will go anywhere for some free heroin.

[Goat King]

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6823/bristolsnowzf0.jpg

Some fucker actually clapped when the snow plough drove up the street. I'm expecting to see the 'support our troops in the war on snow' placards any time soon.

[AVX23]

scots will go anywhere for some free heroin.

that and some pure gallus swedgin likesay ;)

http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/belters/gnedk.jpg

[Ladytron]

Got up at 5am this morning to drive to London from Devon - no fucking chance all roads west are closed - so I'm now back home....feel like in an episode of the Prisoner ;)

how they close the roads? or they don't clean them from the snow? no one is driving?

[isoprax]

hahaha - you guys get a wee bit of snow and the world stops!

Here, we drive without a second though even if there's 30 centimeters of fresh snow. The one day in my whole life I couldn't make it to work was because of a meter+ worth of fresh snow that dropped in 1 night. Spent the day digging out! I've even got my photo graphic evidence.

http://www.fun-in-the-murky.com/snowday/151_5199.JPG
Feb 14th, 2007 Hamilton, Ontario

Who wants to visit?

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

if it happened every year we would deal with it. but it doesn't, the odds are 1 year in 18... and besides, everything stopping is a good thing :)

[darrell]

All i need to do is pop my Ford Ranger into 4xlow and they are no stopping me.......
similar truck but not mineski




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[bracket]

lol trev

we dont know bout smow

[M H]

Ok, so drove Suffolk>Hull>Nottingham>Suffolk.. no snow problems, the TV weather and news are sensationalist twats who should be all put on the B Ark.. yes, the west side of the UK is snowed up, but the east side is perfectly clear....

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

There was a great primary school teacher on TV last week who said:

"I'm closing the school because the kids should be playing in the snow"

[Goat King]

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/57/l_be4dfb6a7f8a4967b7175a1ffed6 47cb.jpg

[JonnySpeed]

Ok, so drove Suffolk>Hull>Nottingham>Suffolk.. no snow problems, the TV weather and news are sensationalist twats who should be all put on the B Ark.. yes, the west side of the UK is snowed up, but the east side is perfectly clear....

Mark - surely you know London is the only place that matters in the whole world ;-D

[JonnySpeed]

how they close the roads? or they don't clean them from the snow? no one is driving?

I love the way the English don't bother paying hundreds of thousands of £££ to clear snow that is going to melt anyway. A couple of days staying at home never hurt anyone. In Germany they'd have spent the equivalent of 5 pre-school facilities just to make sure people can drive about. I am very proud we don't spend this money on such a waste... it snows like this once in 20 years so we should just stay at home and enjoy it.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I'm proud that you have an intimate knowledge of the price of both pre-school facilities AND road gritting in Germany.

[Goat King]

Proud and strangely aroused.

[JonnySpeed]

I'm proud that you have an intimate knowledge of the price of both pre-school facilities AND road gritting in Germany.

yer - i read a newspaper and it was the comparison they used. put it all in perspective ;-D

all this crap about the country losing 5billion because nobody went to work just doesn't stack up either. the money i didn't spend on mon and tues was just spent on other days. its not like it disappeared. and city stocks and shares are not real money just speculation.

[JonnySpeed]

Proud and strangely aroused.

think you spent too much time on 4chan/b/

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

We're a country that loves bunking off work and also loves feeling guilty about it.

[Goat King]

think you spent too much time on 4chan/b/

No. It's just hot.

[M H]

so, now they're saying we'll have -18 blizzards tonight.. I spose just like the 5 inches of snow we were supposed to have last night (erm, see a small shower of freezing rain)....

[M H]

I don't have a problem with taking time off work, or things stopping, I just wish they'd stop going over the top about snow that increasingly seems to be non-existant, because it's bloody annoying to stay in because you were told that it would be like siberia outside when in reality it turns out to be a sleet shower, it's bollocks..

[decadnids]

I don't have a problem with taking time off work, or things stopping, I just wish they'd stop going over the top about snow that increasingly seems to be non-existant, because it's bloody annoying to stay in because you were told that it would be like siberia outside when in reality it turns out to be a sleet shower, it's bollocks..

stop watching the weather forecast / news and you'll be sorted.

[M H]

stop watching the weather forecast / news and you'll be sorted.

the trouble is, if they actually got it right by accident, and there are actually blizzards I could well be stuck out in my car in it... I think really I should just buy a second hand Range Rover and keep some snowchains & a rifle in the boot.. could be very usefull both for unpredictable wintery weather and also the end of civilisation...

[decadnids]

the trouble is, if they actually got it right by accident, and there are actually blizzards I could well be stuck out in my car in it... I think really I should just buy a second hand Range Rover and keep some snowchains & a rifle in the boot.. could be very usefull both for unpredictable wintery weather and also the end of civilisation...

yup, sounds like a plan - get a Land Rover - rather than a Range Rover - you'll look less like a ponce. Also make sure you have the following items.

A Swedish Army Trangia

http://www.transworldsurplus.co.uk/images/products/trangia_stove_set.jpg

A storm shelter (incase you leave the vehicle)

http://www.penroseoutdoors.co.uk/acatalog/Storm_Shelter_400.jpg

a good sleeping bag / some blankets

a knife, some rope / cordage
a flint and steel / a lighter

you'll be pretty much sorted then. Of course if other people are stranded you can defend your Land Rover with the gun you're going to take.

[wheezer]

I love the way the English don't bother paying hundreds of thousands of £££ to clear snow that is going to melt anyway. A couple of days staying at home never hurt anyone. In Germany they'd have spent the equivalent of 5 pre-school facilities just to make sure people can drive about. I am very proud we don't spend this money on such a waste... it snows like this once in 20 years so we should just stay at home and enjoy it.

that is some incredibly short-sighted and self-centered reasoning there. how much did Monday last week cost the United Kingdom in human lives alone due to ambulances not operating normally?

[M H]

Of course if other people are stranded you can defend your Land Rover with the gun you're going to take.

put the middle class mothers stuck in their BMW X5's out of their misery first eh? :)

[M H]

I love the way the English don't bother paying hundreds of thousands of £££ to clear snow that is going to melt anyway. A couple of days staying at home never hurt anyone. In Germany they'd have spent the equivalent of 5 pre-school facilities just to make sure people can drive about. I am very proud we don't spend this money on such a waste... it snows like this once in 20 years so we should just stay at home and enjoy it.

that's very nice for you, that when it snows you can sit at home and put your feet up, but unfortunately at my work we have a sadistic area manager who thinks nothing short of all out nuclear war will stop us acheiving our multidrop targets of 98%.. so while you're warm by your fire, you can think of me and my transit van on it's roof in a ditch somewhere...:)

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

a knife, some rope / cordage
a flint and steel / a lighter

and a big machete to kill those tourists who went the wrong way

we know your sort decadnids

[joe pinapples]

that's very nice for you, that when it snows you can sit at home and put your feet up, but unfortunately at my work we have a sadistic area manager who thinks nothing short of all out nuclear war will stop us acheiving our multidrop targets of 98%.. so while you're warm by your fire, you can think of me and my transit van on it's roof in a ditch somewhere...:)

Think of poor M H out in the snow in this, selling pegs door to door:

http://www.wealddown.co.uk/images%20news/acquisition%20030916%20reading %20van%20exterior%200002.jpg

[Loz]

Snowing again here. It's laying, too. About an inch and a half so far, and still pretty heavy.