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Ok we havent had a winter like this for a while, but who is fed up with it and wants to get back to normal boring winters......last time I saw a winter like this (2 weeks of solid ice roads) was wayyyyyyyyyyyy back in the 70s, can anyone remember them, six to twelve foot snowdrifts and we had to dig a tunnel out of the house.
 
Oh, you wouldn't know snow if it landed on your head.

Now that the snow is on it's way to England, suddenly the world's coming to an end!
 
I do mate this is petty compared to what we had in the 70s/ late 60s and what we got,,,, up there is more than we could deal with I feel for you Mike I really do but we have had nothing like this for years and the young uns running things havent got a clue what to do........out of college into powerful jobs and absolutely no experience in the real world...........hence our gritters wont venture out till its -7 and still air, graduates ey:lol:
 
I remember some bad stuff in the late 70's but I was still in junior school ;). Roads should be ok at 5am, all the idiots are still in bed.... well most of them :D
 
I've lived in Warrington for 20 years, in all that time we've never had this much snow, my kids are 12 and 9, it was 9 years before my eldest even knew what it was, even then it was only 2" deep and stayed for a day, people are moaning the council aren't gritting all the roads but if they'd spent millions on snowploughs that had been sitting in garages for 20 years they'd be moaning about that too.
 
wack61 said:
I've lived in Warrington for 20 years, in all that time we've never had this much snow, my kids are 12 and 9, it was 9 years before my eldest even knew what it was, even then it was only 2" deep and stayed for a day, people are moaning the council aren't gritting all the roads but if they'd spent millions on snowploughs that had been sitting in garages for 20 years they'd be moaning about that too.
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The voice of reason :thumbs:
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Oh, you wouldn't know snow if it landed on your head.

Now that the snow is on it's way to England, suddenly the world's coming to an end!
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:lol: :agree:

Back in the 80's I had two cars parked outside my parents' house when a snowplough came up the road - the trouble was we didn't know exactly where the cars were due to the depth of the snow :lol:
 
towershot said:
Snow ,this ain't snow,:lol: We ad it so bad when i wer a lad the eskimo's down our street moved out.......:p
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Our Eskimo's have just settled in ... :p

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The problem is that the Councils (and other sections of government.....) and companies are all run on a penny pinching criteria, nothing is left to 'just incase'. Everything is run right on the edge of cost, so when something like this happens, it tips right over the edge.

Just like companies. How many run on barely enough staff? Most I reckon, then when one or two fail to show, it all implodes...
Same with councils....keep just enough gritters to make a token gritting....but when theyre actually *needed* properly, there is nowhere near enough because theyve scrimped and saved......and they end up losing all the money theyve saved through closures and revenue loss....

Gross over simplification of course, but the sentiment I'm sure is sound...
 
Flash In The Pan said:
You could always get some snowchains......:naughty:


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I could have done with them this afternoon. I went to turn left whilst driving reasonably slow or so I thought, car carried on straight passed the turning. So I had to take the next left, slower still and made it round ok no problems, had to take another left and was going slower still. Car slid sideways off some compacted snow and in slow motion nudged into the side of a bus waiting to pull out of the turning. Bus had a very small scrape on one panel
just below where driver sits. My car however now has a nice big hole on the corner of the bumper.:'(: thumbsdown:
 
i love it ( at the moment )
 
I'm joining the had enough of snow vote .
Causing too much trouble getting to / from work .
Digging the car out after getting stuck , driving sideways and 30mph on the motorway is just too much now .
 
Most of the main roads up here were at a stand still today and ungritted, guess what one of the local councils were doing..... Cutting back hedges :lol:

took me over two hours to work this morning when its normally 30 mins and was chaos, everyone panicking over nothing

For me this is the worst snow I have seen, I wasn't even thought about in the 70's or even early 80's :lol:
 
Marcel said:
The problem is that the Councils (and other sections of government.....) and companies are all run on a penny pinching criteria, nothing is left to 'just incase'. Everything is run right on the edge of cost, so when something like this happens, it tips right over the edge.

Just like companies. How many run on barely enough staff? Most I reckon, then when one or two fail to show, it all implodes...
Same with councils....keep just enough gritters to make a token gritting....but when theyre actually *needed* properly, there is nowhere near enough because theyve scrimped and saved......and they end up losing all the money theyve saved through closures and revenue loss....

Gross over simplification of course, but the sentiment I'm sure is sound...
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Bang on Marcel - Salford obviously kept more of their budget for gritting (probably as they cover more of the motorway network) than Bury, hence as soon as you get past the 'Welcome To Salford' signs, the roads are actually drivable!!

With regards to the work thing, the clever fekkers at our place decided that they could work with a holiday sickness pod of 1 in 7 people for my team about 12 months ago. The missus who's a senior HR manager said that was way too lean, so I challenged it! The response I got was, I quote, 'we can't plan for sickness' - I work in the planning department!!! :lol: It's not so funny now that 2 of us, 1 of which is me, are changing jobs within 3 weeks of one another, meaning they are losing 14 years of combined knowledge, and are going to be massively in the do do with our major customers!! Taxi for the management.....:D
 
Well for me, I'm still on leave so I was quite happy for the 10in we got last night.

Foggy- your avatar has been all over the news!

on the issue of the weather special, to be fair if The North got temps of +45 deg in the summer, chances are there would be a weather special- us soft southerners dont normally get it this bad!
 
I've had enough of it too ... :thumbsdown: GLOBAL WARMING ....... BRING IT ON ... :thumbs:
 
cambsno said:
So much for global warming then!!!
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As far as my knowledge of global warming goes, what we're experiencing now is weather change, whereas global warming is climate change - 2 different things, though I'm no expert.
 
I'm fed up of it for now cos it's ruined some very important plans, it's welcome to return after weds next week, but anytime before then and we're just screwed :'(
 
I am sick of it to now to be honest

Had to dig the car out after getting stuck this morning so no chance of getting to work, would rather be at work than be stuck now being able to do anything
 
This is nothing. Remember around '94/'95 when the buses and HGVs were stranded all over the place because the diesel waxed up? Winter of '91/'92 it snowed on Hogmanay, and there were still mounds of snow lying on street corners round our way in March? Winter of '80/'81 I was working outside on a site in Paisley - the overnight temp was -21 for a few days.
That same winter there were cars and lorries stranded on the A9 for over a week. Drivers were sheltering in local village halls, farms, schools or whatever was available. Some of the councils had to hire in snow blowers to clear the trunk roads.
Back then, every council ran out of grit and our local gritters were spreading cinders and ash from coal fired power stations on the roads to provide traction.
The rock salt used as grit in this country is only good down to around -6, so some councils have stopped gritting because it is a waste of time and fuel. Maybe they should go back to spreading cinders and ash, and while they're at it get all the neds on tags and asbos out spreading the footpaths and side streets. Make them give something back.
 
candlestick said:
as soon as you get past the 'Welcome To Salford' signs, the roads are actually drivable!!
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they haven't gritted the A580, I drove from the M60 towards Liverpool, it's one lane with some really scary black ice patches, it doesn't look like they've gritted it at all since it started snowing, I was doing 35mph when I hit some ice and the wheels started spinning.

I can understand them not gritting side streets but I would have expected the east lanc's road to be done
 
wack61 said:
they haven't gritted the A580, I drove from the M60 towards Liverpool, it's one lane with some really scary black ice patches, it doesn't look like they've gritted it at all since it started snowing, I was doing 35mph when I hit some ice and the wheels started spinning.

I can understand them not gritting side streets but I would have expected the east lanc's road to be done
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Sure that isn't Wigan council - anything beyond Boothstown is??
 
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