Bloody snow. 

"Svend" (svend) 02/28/2018 at 02:29 • Filed to: None

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Where I live in North Cumbria is quite unlike the rest of the county and areas around it.

We don’t normally get snow and even when we do it’s in brief flurries that doesn’t settle because of the salty air off the Solway to the west.

Today though, it looks like it’s going to do it’s own bloody thing.

The car I was going to be washing today.

djmt1 > Svend 02/28/2018 at 02:47

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You’d think considering all the terrible shit that has happened to London in the last 2,000 years that we would be able to cope with a bit of snow but everything has come crashing down including my sodding garden.

Svend > djmt1 02/28/2018 at 03:02

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Ye’, it’s the trade off though.

No authority can afford the tools and machinery required for the amount of times it would be used. The cost of the machines, maintenance and storage, plus supplies. In 2011/2012 we used 700,000 tinnes of grit on the roads, in 2010/2011 it was one million tonnes of grit on the roads.  

It’s like when people say, why close the airport, all you need it this, this and this to remain open. Ye’, those tools cost millions and okay, the passengers can arrive into the airport, but if they can’t leave the airport on trains, buses and cars, all you’ve done is replace departing passengers with arriving passengers.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Svend 02/28/2018 at 03:12

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The roads in the North East have remained pretty clear. I was on the A1/69/68/1340 yesterday and they had all been cleared appropriately. Considering we’re the most underfunded council, and yet got hit second hardest with the snow, it’s not unreasonable to expect other regions to also be clear.

Whenever SNOWPOCALYPSE hits the UK I feel like everyone freaks out, and the media really doesn’t help the situation. In the wilds of Northumberland yesterday, I was treated to a granny in a Polo using a snow covered single track lane like a private rally stage. And yet near central Newcastle there were lots of people driving as if it was a nuclear winter when there is only the lightest dusting on the roads. Constant speeding up and slowing down, heavy braking - just ludicrous.

Svend > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 02/28/2018 at 03:18

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Ye, it doesn’t help when people don’t know how to drive in snow, or rather how to drive properly.

Most authorities can keep roads open to a degree but for anything really heavy or sustained, those resources dry up quickly.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Svend 02/28/2018 at 04:19

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Meanwhile, I sit here at 28 degrees Celsius at nearly half eight at night. Clear sky. Beautiful evening. And Stage 5 water restrictions mean that no-one can wash their car using town water and this rental doesn’t have water tanks...nor do most other properties in town. Lots of dirty cars around here...

pip bip - choose Corrour > Svend 02/28/2018 at 05:08

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no snow here

:)

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/28/2018 at 05:21

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Ye’, we’ve got snow, but you live in a country where the only thing not trying to kill you, is you.

I’ll take my side any day. Lol.

Svend > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 02/28/2018 at 05:24

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Ye’, it’s getting heavier here. It’s -3C here.

Cé hé sin > pip bip - choose Corrour 02/28/2018 at 05:27

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No snakes here though. Or scorpions., sharks, deadly spiders, crocodiles...

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Svend 02/28/2018 at 05:41

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Huey has a warped sense of fun. It can easily get down to that sort of temperature here...but it will never snow.

Svend > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media 02/28/2018 at 05:56

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Huey?

I don’t mind the temperature. I can easily handle -10C before I choose to change from shorts to trousers or put a coat on.

The snow means you can’t do ruddy well anything.

Ash78, voting early and often > djmt1 02/28/2018 at 08:01

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Sometimes a stiff upper lip is just an early sign of frostbite...

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Svend 02/28/2018 at 09:23

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Could be worse, you could react like the Southern US does to snow.

Shit was on fire yo.

Svend > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 02/28/2018 at 09:39

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Ye’, we don’t go that far. there may be the odd fender bender but a lot of the time it’s just people slipping off the road or being stopped in their tracks.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Svend 03/01/2018 at 05:27

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Huey: The Australian God of Surf, Wind, Dust Storms and General Fuck Ups.