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[erastes]

It took me two hours to drive to work this morning. It normally takes me 25 minutes.

Why?

OMG we had ONE INCH of snow. *county grinds to a halt* How can one inch make a train break down?

I am ashamed of my county, really. I mean look at this picture. That's not exactly DEEP is it?

The Canadians will be laughing their frozen socks off. "treacherous snow" *dies laughing.*

Comments

[orange-bastard.livejournal.com]

Well if most people aren't used to it...it's a huge mess XD

Even here, it takes the first or second snow for people to start driving properly in it.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's part of the problem, people are just IDIOTS driving without lights and far too fast and ignoring the black ice!!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

How did you know my feet were cold?

I'm ... not so much laughing as chuckling bilingually.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

sacre bleu! Waves fist!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I must confess to giggling a little.
But mostly I feel envy for those school children who had their classes cancelled.
I don't think the schools ever closed here in the city? Sometimes in the country they would. -40C and you were still expected to get to school... or work.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Utterly insane shutting the schools. ONE INCH! and it wasn't even cold!

[sionnain.livejournal.com]

......!

OMG, that was treacherous? Oh, that's kind of cute!!! Right now I have more snow than that on my office floor from tracking it in!!

Aww. Awww! You Brits are adorable!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

We are pathetic, that's what we are. Wrong kind of snow, leaves on the line, FOG - anything! just give us an opportunity to grind to a halt!

[angrboda]

We have the same sort of problems. Lots of car accidents yesterday. People think there's so little of it that it doesn't matter so they ignore it. And then stuff happens like it did yesterday near Køge. Huge accident involving 40-50 cars.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I worked one winter in Denmark and I was SOO dissaponted when it wasn't any more snowy than England was!

Agh, terrible accident, sorry about that!

[welshbard.livejournal.com]

In the Great White North of Minnesota, we also laugh at those from southern states that have the same trouble. Up here, they don't close the schools unless the windchill is below -40 C/-40 F or the snowfall is over 18 "/45 cm. Or maybe they won't close them.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

But then you probably have schools that can cope with the weather - and arent a load of southern softies like us lot!

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

You should see how much Athens paralyses on the rare occasions we have a couple inches of snow. Schools usually close and nobody is expected to go to work. :-)

January has been rather unnaturaly warm here, btw.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Hah! Yes, I can imagine that happening in Athens.

I have VERY fond memories of Athens, *sigh*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

My sister and I grew up in New England, in the Boston, MA, area, to be precise. About 15 years ago, she moved down to Maryland. During the winter she and her husband were first down there, she called me. "We're having what the natives call snow," she said. "What do you call it?" I asked. "Flurries. A dusting. If that."

She's still amazed that her son's school is canceled for an inch or so of snow. Around here, it takes at least 6.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I know... it's just barmy.

I mean - why be surprised! IT'S WINTER! Yes, snow!

:)

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

lol..that picture is what it looked like every morning for the past two weeks here in Ohio:)
I got the horde to their various schools and to work in 45 minutes of driving all over the county in snow like that.

We are bracing not for the 3 inches of snow we are getting but the arctic below zero weather for the week.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I know... it's so embarrassing...

*hides face*

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Yesterday in Italy was raining so I have passed one hour in car to go to work when usually is twenty minutes (I live in Padua and work in Venice). Every time the same story: people sees rain and take the cars... ciao, elisa

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I don't think this was caused by more cars - just an accident due to black ice. But people do drive like idiots no matter how bad the weather

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

*grin* I went to feed my horse this evening and there were schoolchildren at the stables.

Me: what you all doing here?
Children: Ya seen the snow? We can't go to school today.

Uhm.
My building at work was suspiciously empty too. Lazy louts!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Any excuse! I admit after an hour and a half in traffic I nearly turned round and went home, but I didn't. Nor do I have the sort of work that would like that either.

so unfair. Not enough snow AND crap traffic and work!

[alankria.livejournal.com]

It's so daft, isn't it? *grins* But it did look pretty sitting atop the few branches I can see from my basement-flat bedroom window.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It didn't last long enough. When I'm rich and famuz I'm having a snow cabin for at least 3 months of the year.

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

The south of Germany is a mess due to massive snowing. But we won't be able to compete with the Canadians. ;-)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*AM SO JEALOUS of your snow*

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

in 5 days there will be two southern med drivers on the roads. if there is snow, sleet or ice be prepared for headlines reading "Unenglish scene as two uncouth foreigners battle insignificant odds in half millimeter of snow." Hee. Poor Surrey!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Poor Surrey indeed....

*Glomps you* HOW ARE YOU???

[beauty-seeker.livejournal.com]

oh yes, well here in ottawa, canada we get much more snow, but we have all kinds of things to help us with it...snow tires on the cars, plows and salt on the roads. and still when we get our first snow there are accidents and deaths. even in the rain people are poor drivers here.
i am not a car person so i don't know how hard it must be. i walk, i take the bus everywhere.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

part of it is people driving badly, that's very true. But also the councils not being prepared, they knew snow was coming and they just didn't prepare the roads properly. Loads of horrid black ice!

[dea-liberty.livejournal.com]

...but the trains break down without the inch of snow...so with it, it breaks down even easier!

But yeah, seriously. Treacherous snow. *sniggers*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

HELLO! Nice to see you, hun!

so funny, I post about the weather and everyone comments!

[ter369.livejournal.com]

*county grinds to a halt* How can one inch make a train break down?

This sounds like the problem in California, where people cannot handle driving in the rain. To be fair, the oil on the roads makes it slick during rainfall, but I think the problem is the drivers don't want to put down their cellphone/beverage/cigarette and quit singing along with the tunes to pay attention to watching traffic through the rain drops.

Here in eastern Colorado: four feet of snow since December 20th, most of it in two blizzards. I still hike carefully over ice fields to get my mail. The animals are freaking out, but they are grocery shopping instead of maneuvering a car.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nod nod a lot of it is sloppy driving. I was behind a White Van Man today and he kept braking too hard and too late and swerving all over the ice.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

That's what you Brits call snow? Oh, fuck. That's called a LIGHT DUSTING :P

Try braving a midwest winter.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's what I meant. pathetic we are.

[iulia_linnea.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that Marylanders vacationed in your neck of the woods. *hugs*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I mean I moved to a tiny village because I wanted to be SNOWED IN.

And that aint anything like it!

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

*laughs my frozen Minnesotan socks off*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*smites you*

:)

[spacetweenears.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm lauging!! But not Canandian - I live in Utah, USA - best snow on earth, baby! :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yum! *jealous*

[moshi.livejournal.com]

Gahh, why is everyone else in England getting snow, and I'm not? You should be glad for your one inch - I have none. *laments* :D

[erastes.livejournal.com]

all gone now.

But, cheer up. You have free nappies!

*G*