• Overnight snow grinds Britain to a halt (as usual)
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You know in Minnestoa, nothing would happen. Everyone would just drive slower but everything would be fine.
We had no snow in Portsmouth, it just rained all night. Then no ice, because it was cloudy and drizzled all today. While towns twenty miles to the north got both. Damn it, I wanted it to snow so no customers would come to work today!
I was playing skyrim with a friend on the playstation when he said "hey look out the window" and It had snowed loads then we kept playing skyrim
[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;34559778]Can anyone explain to me why 2" of snow is such a major deal there? Are you folks simply not equipped to deal with it? For those of us in the Northeast USA, I'm sure all of you can recall the snowstorm last year that dumped 26 inches on us. Gamestop had us open the store at normal business hours the following day :suicide:[/QUOTE] Acclimatisation and being unable to deal with it. Although this is getting dumb this is what the 4th year in a row we have had bad snow (and this isn't even bad this year compared to last!), you would think by now they would be able to deal with it. My local council completely failed to clear any roads from what I can understand, yet the surrounding ones did so once you left the area you could get about easily. The people complaining about Heathrow are annoying me, BAA asked airlines to cancel 1/3rd of flights to have some room to deal with delays. An airport running at 99.9% capacity can't deal with weather delays.
I like that this country cries when a little bit of snow. No one goes to work or anything and retard who does 70mph on black ice dies.
And yet again NI isn't even touched by frost...
No snow in Cornwall, just got the usual rain.
and yet the most northerly place in the UK is cold as fuck and has no snow. what is this
[QUOTE=Camundongo;34561859]We had no snow in Portsmouth, it just rained all night. Then no ice, because it was cloudy and drizzled all today. While towns twenty miles to the north got both. Damn it, I wanted it to snow so no customers would come to work today![/QUOTE] That's funny, because it just drizzled a little bit over Havant, all those south-eastern, midland countys getting all the snow, greedy bastards.
-20 and fuckton of snow and ice where I live, and still going to work at 6.00 PM every day.
The entirety of living in Gloucester? "Oh man I heard it's gonna snow tonight we've been waiting ages for some" "OH SHIT IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED EVERYONE'S GONNA DIE"
Not a single snowflake here in Preston. :(
[QUOTE=Vasili;34558909]I ended up unintentionally sliding down a iced concrete hill when walking my dog.[/QUOTE] That sound's really fun... actually.
And yet in Aberdeen... sweet fuck all.
No snow in Scotland.
It snowed here last night then promptly rained it away, weather troll.
It's only 39 degrees here, been in the 40's and 50's most of the time, usually it's in the single digits, and a shit ton of snow and freezing rain covers everything.
Ukraine [img]http://i.imgur.com/Ywsqg.jpg[/img]
I'm tactically deciding to not go to college.. for personal safety reasons and nothing to do with the superbowl ending at 4am, of course.
Bloody snow not coming to Northern Ireland.
Snowed for about 4 hours last night, then started raining which melted away the snow D:!
[QUOTE=xXDictatorXx;34561425]Seriously? Again? We had snow in Denmark too, as far as I know everything was up and running as usual today. I am sick of the UK closing flights down every time it snows, I keep getting scared my trip home will get canceled :( (luckily my next flight is in March so it should be ok)[/QUOTE] You'll be fine it'll be gone by Wednesday and we won't get any snow until 2020.
Just rain here, then it will freeze over night, all the OAP's will die come Tuesday.
It was pretty warm today where I live.
About 3 inches down in kent. Taken from my living room window [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5831868/Photo%2005-02-2012%2012%2004%2048.jpg[/img]
The snow's in that partially melted form now so it makes the best snowballs.
Talking about cancelled flights, they were explaining it on the news. Basically, Heathrow is a small airport, but it's the busiest airport in the UK. Usually they operate the place with very small time margins, so that they can manage to get all the planes in and out with only 2 runways. When it snows they have to slow down and it causes big bottlenecks, so this year they cancelled some flights so that they could continue to operate.
Meanwhile Eastern Europe and Scandinavia laughts at the rest of the world
Meanwhile I don't care because I've got the day off school.
The only time my school ever closed for snow was the 1st year after I left. Bastards.
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