On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:51:09 GMT, pamela wrote:

The winters of 2010 and 2011 were far worse than this.

Depends how you define "worse". They were certainly colder for
longer but *accumulated* snow depth less and because it didn't all
arrive in one massive dollop was far easier to manage. Foot of
snow, one pass of plough spreading salt and a hour later you have
black tram tracks, 2 hours just a a wet road.

As far as disruption is concerned the last week has been far far
worse than either 2009/10 or 2010/11. By comparsion those two
winters where just winters, shovelling snow became a chore and a
PITA when the space you were shoveling to ran out of space. But
the ploughs would clear the roads and you could get about every
day.

I have to disagree. In those winters the snow remained for weeks
and weeks.

So it gets shifted out of the way within a hour or two and life
carrys on. Ah I forget, "they" are supposed to treat and clear *all*
the roads. There's little or no proper "community" on many streets or
estates these days. People live in their individual little boxes
hardly knowing their neighbours name. Perish the thought of knocking
on a few doors getting a few people together to clear at least a set
of tram tracks so they can all get in or out with relative ease. Oh
no, they'll just stay inside and whine on Facebok or twitter that
"they" haven't cleared the road of an inch of slush and so are stuck
at home unable to drive to the shops a 20 minute walk away.

We can adapt to a few days bad weather like recently but after a couple
of weeks, with no end in sight, it's a very different story.

Meh, it's winter, it snows in winter. Which always seems to catch
many people out. I don't under stand how a bit of sleet let alone
snow can cause such chaos in a lot of the country.

There is no way one can "adapt" to roads under 2' of snow and higher
drifts, unless you just happen to have tracked quad bike in the
garage. You just have to sit it out until the ploughs and blowers
have cut a single track through it. Or get your collective shovel out
and help yourselves.

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Cheers
Dave.