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.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Actually I really enjoy at first when it is so much that you sink up over your ankles in it and everything is all white and quiet.

But by the third day of school being canceled I want to start beating people for not sholving their sidewalks and for the city not clearing the roads better.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I had a snowdrift. But I eated it.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

*snigger*

I think I'll grab the boy and have a walk now. No emails to answer and a novel to wrap up. I need my plotting brain. Worst part: I don't think the supermarkets will be open.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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]

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.

[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!

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

You mean I should hurry in case there are none left for me? And maybe I should make a run on the supermarket too in case all the food runs out! And .... oh wait, never mind, I'll probably just watch telly.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

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

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I just got an email from a friend saying the Coop is packed with people stocking up on food ...

I. Never. Fail. To be amazed at the English. :)

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

So I'm heavier when I hit the neighbour's porsh? ... The problem here is that the traction is now sooooo bad from the ice under the snow, and of course Brighton is all hills - so basically I can see cars sliding downhill at all odd angles, and then crawling uphill with flailing wheels.

I'd be laughing if I hadn't done the same thing myself this morning! Just gutted I can't get to the stables, because ponies in the snow are luverly.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I'd forgotten how hilly Brighton is. Good luck, hun!

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I second the bus driver thing. I would be absolutely shit scared to be driven by these maniacs in anything but perfect conditions.

Just ... no.

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

They love it.

If I were British, I would now be wearing a snowsuit and trudging to the local supermarket to buy all their bread. I'd also pick up some candles for when the elecriticty network fails ... and maybe some extra blankets ... But most importantly, I would commiserate with everyone else about how the end of the world is finally here ... and I WOULD ENJOY IT.

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

A foot of snow... wow, I don't think I've even seen a foot of snow firsthand.

Hah, I've just checked the local news and the school just a minute down the road from my uni campus is closed due to the weather!

I just need the weather to get better and the snow to clear by Friday lunchtime so I can go to Kent. The BBC are predicting more snow/sleet on Thursday and Friday, and the trains I would be using aren't running today because of the weather.

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

They don't *have* snowsuits - the correct clothing for winter is high heels and a short dress for womenz.

Fortunately, the BRits have outsourced all menial tasks to Poles and Russkies, so the country will keep on running.

I'm laughing so hard Im' almost crying. I have yet to learn that Stiff Upper Lip, but maybe that's genetic.

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

Don't have snowsuits? Here they wear ASDA snowsuits whenever a single flake floats from the sky (could be ash, but you never know) ...

Now the BBC is saying we're all bout to die to hypothermia ... WHY?? It's warmer today than it's been all month ... So ho hum. Am tempted to wonder down to the seafront to see if a refugee hasbeen set up yet ;).

Where are you from if you don't mind me asking?

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Really? Here, the only thing from ASDA I see people with is sixpacks of cheap beer... :)

Exactly. I found the -10 degrees ICE COLD HORRIBLE Russian wind much much worse, so I'm happy with the mild conditions. No gusts of wind, just gentlyt drifting snow. Peaceful and nice.

I'm down SE, Bromley (just far enough from London to have no chance in hell to get to work).

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Probably ... but then, they don't really go off. :)

[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.