Is the 'South' still there?

[threebikesmcginty]

sorry, could you repeat that..I couldn't hear you over the noise the bubbles in your shandy were making...

Best beer's down this end and up in Scotland, the middle bit's a vast wasteland of watery tasteless maidens water.

 

[ComedyPilot]

There's about 6" of snow here in rural East Yorks....but Mrs CP says I am wrong, it's just a touch of ground frost....

 

[Andy_R]

Best beer's down this end and up in Scotland, the middle bit's a vast wasteland of watery tasteless maidens water.

Oh??

 

[Radchenister]

With all this Lager swilling going on, lord help you if you're in the 'Yellow Zone' - you know what they say about yellow snow.

 

[ComedyPilot]

No snow - 14 minutes.

With snow - 15 1/2 minutes

 

[Paul99]

The thing you northerners don't take into account is that we all have jobs to go to down here so when it snows there is disruption. We can't just sit around moaning all day about hard done by we all are.

 

[HovR]

5 minutes? I used the studded tyres and that cost me around 15 I'd say.

I was using knobbly tires, without studs. Most of the roads were fine so I could go at full pace, with only the small bit leaving my house towards the main road slowing me down noticeably. My commute normally takes me 20 to 25 minutes and yesterday it took me 30. Lack of traffic probably also had something to do with that.

 

[ComedyPilot]

The thing you northerners don't take into account is that we all have jobs to go to down here so when it snows there is disruption. We can't just sit around moaning all day about hard done by we all are.

Obviously your proximity to the Equator means you don't understand the word 'commute'.....we do have jobs, we ride in all weathers, but we don't have a BBC special report bleating on about it as soon as a few flecks of snow drop...

 

[Brains]

Airport Disruption:
It looks like BA & BAA have for a second time completely cocked things up again, they have millions of pounds of brand new snow clearing kit and yet terminal 5 looks like a refugee camp.
They can not say they were not warned. Everyone knew snow was coming, the predictions for once were absolutely spot on.
I'm not blaming them for flights that did not arrive from other airports, but everything else is down to them.

Yet again they have failed to deal with thousands of people forced to sleep overnight on the terminal floor, where were the mattresses ? where were the blankets ? where was the food and drink ? All of which they should have moved from their warehouse stockpile ten days ago.
(Don't tell me that they never spent a couple of hundred grand on the kit, that would prove incompetence beyond belief)
Most importantly, where was the information, needed all through the night, the rebooking and rescheduling ?
If it means that once or twice a year staff have to work double shifts, then so be it, we all have to do it now and again during an emergency situation.
BA & BAA have proved they genuinely are unable to run a piss-up in brewery.

 

[trampyjoe]

Is it snowing? I've been too busy trying to get my heating fixed to notice.

 

[Arch]

I was on the scene.
You just don't realise how difficult it was getting around with all that de-icer chemical powder stuff they had decanted on the dry pavements, but it gave the place a seasonal look.
There can be little doubt the Met office did its best to get people psyched up for nothing, I was having a chat with their staff on the Met Office stand at the Boat Show on Thursday and they warned me of the transport problems I was likely to face on my way home. They asked where I would be going, and had a look on their chart to see my home area obscured by a big symbol.
The train ran on time and got me home to a welcoming +5C this morning.

I was on the train over to Manchester yesterday (ran perfectly to time over the Pennines), and heard a woman in the seat in front on her mobile phone saying:

"Why?"
<inaudible other end of conversation>
"But the trains are running"
<>
"They are, I'm on a train to Liverpool now"
<>
"But where are you going to stay?"

Clearly someone had decided that they had to stay somewhere, because all the trains were buried in 70' snowdrifts.

NT had said it was snowing hard, and I did wonder if the trams would be affected, but it had stopped by the time I got there, and the trams were fine. Well, ok, my tram did most of the trip at 10 mph, but that's par for the course for the older ones.

 

[deanE]

It went a bit dull for a few minutes, here in Mid Cornwall, but I think the worst of it is over for this year.

 

[Drago]

I tells ya what's grinding my gears. If the weather conditions are so bad that you have to crawl in your car at 5 MPH to make progress then I would question whether you should be driving it at all. Get off the road so those who are properly prepared can go about their daily business.

 

[Brains]

Obviously your proximity to the Equator means you don't understand the word 'commute'.....we do have jobs, we ride in all weathers, but we don't have a BBC special report bleating on about it as soon as a few flecks of snow drop...

Now that the BBC have mostly moved oop t'north to Salford* this is the first real snow most of them have ever seen, so not surprising they are doing special programs about it
(I genuinely had to do a Google search to find out where the place is as it's north of the border Severn-Wash Line)

 

[ComedyPilot]

I tells ya what's grinding my gears. If the weather conditions are so bad that you have to crawl in your car at 5 MPH to make progress then I would question whether you should be driving it at all. Get off the road so those who are properly prepared can go about their daily business.

Or don't go out at all......

I was looking forward to going to watch a mate's band play last night in Market Weighton, but stayed in as that journey wasn't NECESSARY......