SNOW!

[erastes]

Yes, yes - you East Coast Americans and especially you Canadians will be looking at our pathetic couple of inches of snow and making noises of derision, but to us it's SNOW!

And of course, predictably, the entire country has ground to a halt. Trains aren't running, airports are closed, schools ditto, buses cancelled, motorways empty and side roads "impassable."(says the BBC)

Impassable? Did we have ten feet overnight and I didn't notice? Because we had less than a centimetre here!

OK I take it back - seem like other areas have more than here, but still - that's not DEEP!! That's actually embarrassing. "look world, we've had an inch of snow!"

Most unfair. However - I must say, they knew it was coming - they always knew it is coming, and yet the country always grinds to a halt!

Comments

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Hee. You guys are so cute, anothers on my flist from your neck of the woods are also talking about the snow.

We still have over a foot on the ground even after the warm day and melting off a bit of it. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I know. It's shaming. I want more!

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I love the snow!

And the BBC article made me go all LOLcats: LUK WERLD, WE HAS SNOW!

Hilarious.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I had a snowdrift. But I eated it.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Of course, it WOULD be easier to drive in snow if you lot used snow tires.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I suppose they must sell snow chains - they've probably sold out today - but I suppose people think that for 2 days a year it's not worth the expense.

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

lol exactly what I thought!
But THEN ....... I for the first time EVER (after growing up in Austria & France with lots of snow) almost had a snow-related RTA - seriously, it was a question of millimetres ... So I shut up now and stop making fun.
Though I am considering walking to the local Halfords and gettnig me some snow chains because I HATE being stuck. HATE HATE HATE! (local being about 1 hour walk ... but gotta get out really or my brain will explode!)

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I can guess what today's bestseller at Halfords will be.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hope they still have some! Might be worth ringing first. Someone suggested weighing the car down with stuff!

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

It's funny, but even though I lol at people shutting things for this little amount of snow, I trust the bus drivers around here so little that I'm not going to town today because I can't trust them to be able to drive competently in the snow (or on ice because they do stupid things like mount the kirb with half the bus while changing lanes in the dry)!

gehayi is right that snow tires would be good for people, but, this is the second lot of snow this winter, and we usually don't get anywhere near so much.

It's still snowing outside here, but it isn't settling - there is still a large gap in the snow on our drive where Mum took my car two hours ago.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's just hardly even trying here, just a few flakes in the wind.

I remember stumping to school in a foot of snow as a kid. No schools shut back then!

[alankria.livejournal.com]

We had about 5cm. Dad drove me into town in the 4x4 and the country roads were white. One was blocked by a three-vehicle accident, while on another road we saw a vehicle that had slid off a sharp corner into a ditch.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

People still drive like idiots no matter what, it's scary!

[aigooism.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got some snow! <3 It rarely snows here, too (although more than there, I suppose) so any time it snows, I get excited. :)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's been snowing all morning, but it's just not really settling. Very annoying.

[ejab62.livejournal.com]

Immediately thought of you when I watched this woman on the BBC journal. All enthusiastic and telling the reporter she didn't want togo to work and play in the snow. Lol!

*Envies*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Stupid country. No buses in London, can you believe it?

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

*SQUEES*

We haz it! It's settled, too, like a big Christmas cake. Hurrah!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's still being pathetic here. Its very unfair.

[villainslair.livejournal.com]

LOL! I found it amusing checking my flist and seeing your post, then directly beneath it another British friend is having massive caps abuse saying how they got a FOOT of snow and can't get to work or walk in it or anything! She also says she doesn't have shoes that would keep the snow out, so I figure that has to suck.

Oh, and speaking as an East Coast American who is now down in Florida instead of New York? I must say that if it snowed down here for real without Disney magic or whatever, they'd probably go batshit insane too. At least New Yorkers (mostly) keep their calm unless it's a total blizzard.

Congratulations on the snow! Hopefully you'll get all you want!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It's just not settling. I live in hope.

Thanks!

[eledhwenlin]

Eh, your last entry just disappeared, right when I was posting my comment. Did it work or do you still need help?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

aigooism is having a look for me, so I didn't want to bother anyone else, thank you!

*smooch*

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Has the climate changed so very much since the 1930s? Because at least in Yorkshire in the James Herriott books, they got snow. Lots and LOTS of snow. FEET of it.

Is there not a single snowplow truck in all of Britain?

Because SERIOUSLY. Four inches paralyzing things? Is ridiculous. I don't have snow tires on my little car, and I have never once used snow chains (although when I was young my dad had STUDDED snow tires), and four inches would make me drive more slowly and complain about having to shovel the driveway AGAIN, is all.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It has changed - when my parents were living in Norfolk 25 years ago, they were snowed in every year, literally feet of snow and they lived in a tiny unmade lane - but now it's very rare to get it, especially in the south. People just don't know how to drive in it--that's the trouble. but it is stupid. No buses? madness.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Enjoy your snow!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Sadly a bit of a non event, the rest of the country got it, and it didn't last here.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

It's like that where I live, too; snow is a rare, and therefore paralyzing, occurrence. Though, we had TONS this winter, and much of it's still on the ground, which is even rarer. Thank goodness it's no longer icy, though; snow I can handle, but ice is just horrid.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

yes, the news today is "oo watch out for the ice" - i mean - it's a MAIN HEADLINE! Let's not worry about the world news, eh?

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

Everytime I hear about heavy snowfall in the UK that shuts things down my mind immediately goes to The Dark is Rising. XD

I wish they'd shut things down here when the snow gets bad! Urban schools don't even close. -50C and they still don't close and you're expected to be at work.

Crazy. I'd say you lot are far more sane in your reaction to the great, white menace.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

The schools certainly didn't close when I was a kid, and we had proper snow then! *feels about 102 years old*

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of people in LA and SD having issues when it seriously *rains*. None of the infrastructure is adapted, and of course neither is personal equipment such as tired and boots and jackets. Aside from things like driving attitude adjustments required...

[vinnie-tesla.livejournal.com]

I dunno if you've seen, but Americans are having a bit of internal debate about how much snow is a lot of snow right now too.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It certainly wouldn't be "four inches" *ashamed*

[mallorypath.livejournal.com]

The first time I visited Britain, I took the train from Norwich to London with some friends and got stuck on the tracks due to snow. When the reason for the halt was explained to us, I looked out the window and said, in all sincerity, "Where?"

Of oourse, where I live now I'd probably have a crisis if it even dusted snow.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's still the same here - *ashamed for country*

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

Its great to see the snow-but alas we only have a dusting with the grass still poking out where we are... I would love more (because I am greedy).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Ours has all gone. sunny and bright. bah!