Current Weather Farce
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Come on people, what has happened to this country?!!....

A little snow and ice and everything grinds to a hault. I was born and grew up in Scotland and have seen my fair share of heavy snow, things still got done, roads were cleared and salted, all the kids still went to school, and my dad went to work by car, snow chains and shovel in the boot!!

There is not even 6" of snow yet!!

It was the same in February. Its not like heavy snow is a new thing, we have had it before, 2000 was not that long ago!

All the Scandinavians are having a laugh at our expence, and to be honest, I am too going by recent events over here in the UK.

Its a farce

Edited by Sprocket on 20th Dec, 2009.

indeed it is,

there were forcasts for snow and did i see any gritters put, did i fook, then it dumped it all and they started sending gritters out the next day... ones just gone past... ITS ALL FOOKING MELTED!!

I agree! If I can make it into work in a mini, the lazy fuckers with 4x4's should have not problem! I turned up to work on Friday to an empty carpark.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

snows ace, i can be lazy and stay at home eating crisps and watchin top gear on dave

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I had great fun in the snow. :)

Drove one of those Renault Master vans from High Wycombe up to Huddersfield and back. Figured out eventually it had some sort of locked diff or traction control which was surprising but that was v. useful.

All those cars sliding about and then a hi-top lwb van comes motorboating past them

I've just driven my usual 38 miles to work up the 'snowy' roads of yorkshire. Not once have I lost grip. Got pissed of a few times about the people who blatently can't drive in snow.

Our street was frozen over yesterday. I had a few minutes laughing at the cars sliding down it. With 20 seconds of instruction, my wife drove straight down it. no braking. no slipping and sliding. What is this country like. I think all common sense has been wittled away to nothing.

I think we are yet again selling ourselves short. Why is everybody so negative in this country and happy to jump on the 'Britain is crap' band wagon. We are no different to other countries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8423442.stm

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http://www.hillclimbandsprint.co.uk/default.asp

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You have to remember most people don't give a hoot about driving, or that there are different styles of driving to suit the conditions. Many just see the car as an easy way to get too and from work. some driving is bad enough in the dry let alone snow,

In all fairness Ben, we've had -1 degrees C and a 3 or 4" of snow. Europe has been hit far worse than us.

The M1 was clear this morning, but it didn't stop somebody putting their car down an embankment....

when we had that flurry in feb i was the only one to go to work in our dept yet i lived the furthest

people just want any oppotunity to take the piss and have a few days off

we've got no snow so i can't comment

I don't see why we should expect that millions is spent on equipment to clear the roads when we generally only get snow for a few days a year.

How many of you have spent money on smow chains? no point is there?

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I think it's far more silly to go to work on snowy roads without the decent tyres than to stay at home. I would NEVER have a drive on snow on summer tyres. Oh, if I did I'd loose my license.

I had to laugh when I saw an M3 CSL in York on Saturday. The tyres he had on aren't even suitable for the wet, never mind snow.

Yes, ven with 4WD my Subaru is still shit with RE050s on. Still better than the Sprint.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

You cannot brake any faster with a 4WD, that's the problem..

Exactly. But I can drive sideways everywhere, really upsetting the wife, but my boys loved it!

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

I found myself getting very irritated at some tit on our lass's street revving the tits off his car spinning wheels up and down street trying to park. All he was doing was flattening the snow making it slippier for other folk.

I had no problems getting up and down the street in our gerts corsa just kept the revs down and used the clutch.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

a guy came into work today tried a donut in an MX5 import and got stuck. Security pulled him out and parked his car off-site :)

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snow driving is fine.

its the cold i cant hack. fine if you are sat in the house. when i get a couple of days off its stupid cold and therefore im not getting any work done on my turbo project car. i find it difficult to get motivated to get stuck in when its so cold.

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in an ideal world...however society expects things to be delivered to them these days

i live down a deadend road off a deadend road so its pretty dead and gets affected by snow and ice badly. although we dont get a shovel out it doesnt appear to stop everyone here from going to work as we just leave earlier

did piss me off earlier also when i was riding me scooter home trying to stay upright on the ice and this twat comes flying past overtaking the car happily sitting behind me down the middle covering me in slush doing about 50...cocky bastard

Edited by t@z on 21st Dec, 2009.

We have a grit bin outside the front of our house. It was put there last week and was empty within hours. I think it is there for the side street that doesn't get gritted.

Unfortunatly all the grit either ends up on the back of somebodies transit or on peoples drives. In feb I had to let a neighbour park their 3 series on our drive because they couldn't get up the side street to their house - no grit left...

4 seasons in one day lol
Rob no snow in glasgow?
shame your missing out