Do you love or loathe snow?

[Welsh wheels]

It was hell this morning but we managed to fight our way through to the village.

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So jealous. Wherever this is, I'm coming there now

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Liked it as a kid, detest it as a adult. Bad weather this week has had me cancelling two rides and kept me indoors for a day.

 

[I like Skol]

Love snow, love cycling in it, love driving in it, love walking in it and love playing in it.

As @Drago says, it is the clueless fools that go out unprepared and incapable that spoil it.

 

[Dave7]

As a lad I had (still have) Raynauds which meant make one snowball and my hands siezed up.
If I get well wrapped up I can enjoy walking in it but given the chance I would ban it.

 

[vickster]

Hate. Completely pointless vile white muck

 

[Bazzer]

I enjoy it, but get brassed off with some of the dicks on the road.
How many of the stranded motorists had left home either in bad weather, or with it forecasted with no shovel or outdoor wear other than what they were driving in? Sure conditions in some parts of the country are very bad and sometimes changes in road conditions catch the emergency services out, but neither this, nor storm Emma snuck up on everyone and some people don't help themselves.

 

[roadrash]

Ilove snow ...its the only time my garden looks as good as next doors

 

[pawl]

I wonder how long it will take some old timer to tell us how much worse it was in 1963...

It much worse in 1963,

 

[Drago]

It just seemed worse then because we were much shorter.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Love it.

It's quite bad in Shropshire today though so my love is probably not shared by many people.

 

[Smokin Joe]

It's cost me a days wages today. I hate it.

Mind you, it was far worse in '63.

 

[Dayvo]

Absolutely hate it UNLESS I'm off for a week or two's skiing holiday.

 

[steverob]

I love walking in snow, which is why it's so frustrating to me living in the one place in the country that hardly seems to get any! Last two days we've barely even had an icing sugar dusting and while overnight last night we did get *some* snow, this was about 1cm deep at most - you can still see all the grass poking through the top. And yet just five miles down the road in any direction, it's anywhere between 5 and 15cm deep with most of the roads coming out of my town being closed due to conditions/poor driving.

When we do get snow, the only thing I don't like is the few days afterwards when the hardened stuff on the pavements turns to ice. That stuff can go do one as far as I'm concerned.

 

[classic33]

It just seemed worse then because we were much shorter.

Were cars the same?

 

[ColinJ]

I like the look of pristine snow but it looks really horrid when it is all slushy and salty. I like seeing children enjoying it, and I loved it myself as a child, but I'd rather have nice warm conditions, blue skies, and no wind ta very much - I want to whiz about on my road bike in comfort!

It costs lives because people behave like fools, and most are unprepared.

I enjoy it, but get brassed off with some of the dicks on the road.
How many of the stranded motorists had left home either in bad weather, or with it forecasted with no shovel or outdoor wear other than what they were driving in?

I was watching the news the other night with reports of drivers stranded on a motorway in Scotland. They managed to get a roving reporter out there and he was speaking to one man who had been trapped in a huge tailback in sub-zero conditions for over 24 hours. He was absolutely fuming about how "pathetic" it was that the authorities were not giving enough information out. No word online about how long they would be stuck there, who was coming to help them, and so on ...

There had been a red 'danger to life' weather warning in place for at least 2 days before he'd set off on his journey!