Its snowing!

[pinkyfloyd]

Apart from stating the obvious fact that it is now snowing in most parts of the UK with even more threatened. Its headline news and its finally started to snow pretty heavily down here in Portsmouth.

Is it just me or is anyone else infuriated by the twats on the news complaining about the public transport network not being able to cope with the snow?

"I was due to fly out 3 days ago but the airports just cant cope with the snow, its disgusting"

Its not the fkin airports fault! They didnt ask it to snow. Its not their fault that by the time they have gone the lenght of the runway with their plows they have to start again.

Some dude just said on the news about his railcard costing 3.5K a year and blaming the rail company for their trains not running!

Again its not the rail companies fault they didnt ask it to snow.

I just think its pathetic. Being the heathen that I am I'd be the first to ask these complaining tossers if they believe in god and then to fkin blame him for the snow!

Fkin man the fk up and get over it. Its snowing. Snow brings the country to a halt when it comes in the quantities its been falling in. Always has and always will!

Rant over!
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[pinkyfloyd]

[warped one]

Oeft my house at 7 walked 5mile to the pub, and ot to walk homme yet.

If i leave at 12.

Wat time will i be home?
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[pinkyfloyd]

[warped one]

[Oz.]

[tvchimp]

I watched the same news clip Pink Floyd, I laughed because I can't imagine spending £3500 on a god damn train ticket for a year, I'd cry.

I did however like the point of the only guy who said that he lived in Moscow for 7 years, and they had less budget, but somehow managed to deal with the weather (a lot colder, a lot more snow and ice) easily and everything was kept running including airports and buses, so why wasn't the UK able to?


It is a little bit odd that over the past few years, our winters have been getting worse, and yet my local council are refusing to even grit our roads! I've been walking to and from work this week due to not wanting to die sliding down the road and getting mullered by a car, and yesterday, 6am, starting my walk enduring 8inches of snow (cold/wet boots+wet jeans are not fun!).. The council had actually let out a statement the night before, advising that they were waiting til 8am to see wether it was worth gritting the roads... WTF!?!? 8am is when most people are leaving for work, especially due to the weather meaning journeys are taking longer now...

The way its being dealt with is rediculous. Many countries have it a lot worse and yet deal with a lot lot better..
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[pinkyfloyd]

[Nai]

People in other country's are still more able to deal with the snow on an individual basis. People clear their own path ways. Business estates send a couple of their staff out to clear out the roads and paths. Most of all though, and god help me this is noticeable just going to Scotland, people's road-craft in the snow!

We are shockingly bad in the UK for wanting everything done by somebody else. Its one of the very few things I feel negatively about for the UK.

[pinkyfloyd]

[Oz.]

Wheres the announcmeents saying that aiports have shut down because of lack of salt? There is none. So what if we only get a few weeks of snow a year, we still had 2 previous winters it snowed and the country came close to shutting down. The weather people last year said this is the sign of things to come for the future, the weather forecasts for the past 3 months have said there is a good chance of snow in december so all these services have had plenty of warnings.

The reason why Airports have shut down is because they cant remove the snow from the runway thats nothing to do with salt supplies and all to do with failing to prepare and adapt, they have had 2 previous winters with snow, 2 previous winters to say hey look we fail clearing snow what are going to do about it?

Winter number 3 comes along and what have they done feck all or bought one snow clearing truck/plow for 3 runways....

So yes again its the people providing the service that fail, its nothing to do with salt.

As for the railways, the trans siberian railway runs in -60c temperatures all year long on trains older than my parents.

[Oz.]

[Nai]

On the snow plow bit. I feel a bit differently about that, very on the fence.

This is something I have wondered for the last 3 winters.

The cost of having a fleet of gritters and plow's in storage all year for a few days of use VS The cost to the economy and stuff in general of everyone managing themselves.

Is it better not having them for the country or should we have them and let the sit there 360 days a year?

Does not however change my opinion that for all the snow we get, if individuals would 'do a bit' we would not have half the problems we do have come snow time.

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[Oz.]

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[Clanger]

[Louise]

Portsmouth got hit pretty bad, possibly worse then Jan this year.
I tried to get to work, hour and a half at the bus stop - I got told to head back home.
I dont blame anyone, and I would of prefered not to get on a bus going down icey roads and the motorway. Within that one hour i had seen 2 busses skid, and a car do a 360 on a small roundabout

[Vman]

Had two feet of snow......

[WildGoose]

Nobody, especially private companies, want to spend any money on something that may or may not happen.

However, it always ends up costing them in the end through lost business, and probably employee injury.

Last company I worked for wouldn't buy salt, so we spent most of the winter snow days (when I could be bothered to go in) having to tow our stranded trucks around the yard and dragging the forklifts back into the warehouse with chains attached to a 4x4.

Ton bags of rock salt cost about £60 in the off season, so a couple of hundred quid worth of salt (which is less than the cost of 1 tank of diesel) would have saved all those lost manhours. I also fell over a lot trying to walk around on the premises, and for someone a bit older/heavier that could be bad news. Not to mention customers.

I'm off work this week, and i'm glad about it, because the current place doesn't give us shovels or snow chains, and the trucks have automatic transmission.

Yet, I know precisely the reaction if I were to ring up and say i'm stuck. "Get it sorted, quick as you can, that load has to be somewhere at such and such a time".

The whole culture and attitude towards snow needs to change. Needs to start with people taking it seriously.

I notice the focus on the news this time is much more about the buggerance it is causing rather than the "ooo, aahhh, look at all the pretty snow" that we got in Feb this year.

Maybe people are starting to wake up to it, but we will have to see.

For the time being at least, the financial "crisis" will be used as an excuse for the public sector to do nothing because it cannot afford to, and the private sector will say similar because it has been such a poor few years in terms of profit.
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