Snow rant
Oh hey there, it's snowing where I am in the UK, which is normally cool but because the fall is so weak, it gets boring after a day! But what gets me most is how the news and media treat it like the outbreak of a nuclear war, as if it's the most serious thing of the century?
Firstly you get the TV news and papers saying buzz quotes like "DON'T TRAVEL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECCERSARY, KEEP ELDERLY INDOORS, WORST SNOW FALL SINCE 1843!!!!!!!!
When in reality it's no thicker than an inch, whilst meanwhile in places like Canada, people are almost snowed in but go about their daily lives. We get snow pretty much every year, and yet we Brits absolutely SUCK at staying on top of the situaton/preparing for it.
Anyone else generally get irritated by the stupidity of these news reports making it seem much worse than it is?
Firstly you get the TV news and papers saying buzz quotes like "DON'T TRAVEL UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECCERSARY, KEEP ELDERLY INDOORS, WORST SNOW FALL SINCE 1843!!!!!!!!
When in reality it's no thicker than an inch, whilst meanwhile in places like Canada, people are almost snowed in but go about their daily lives. We get snow pretty much every year, and yet we Brits absolutely SUCK at staying on top of the situaton/preparing for it.
Anyone else generally get irritated by the stupidity of these news reports making it seem much worse than it is?
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also i just have TONS OF ICE (thankfully i have aswome grip on my shoes)
Then it melted.
Didn't even get above a centimetre really.
(I also live in the UK. But in the south between Milton Keynes and London)
Admittedly, it is pretty cold, about -6c, but its common sense to wear something warm, the media treats the population like kids
I'm off work on a snow day. It's pretty diabolical round here. I'd to walk 6 miles in the snow yesterday just because traffic was completley up the left. I spent a few hours shovelling snow on our lane so I can get out tomorrow. I'm all about bringin home the dolla'
Lol, I don't know why, but when you posted "Don't touch it!" I think of Shadow the Hedgehog from that Sonic 06 game.
Sadly, it rarely snows where I live, in teh Texas, so yeah, it's rare here, it has happened though.
Actually I remember I got really excited when I went to visit Spain and it snowed while I was there, but then it started to get really annoying. The sidewalks were very slippery and it was hard to get around. Maybe it's a thing I wouldn't like to experience on a regular basis.
So much sun.
For example, I drove I-40 in the Southwestern U.S. through a snowstorm once. New Mexico was great. As soon as I hit Texas, the roads got much harder to drive, and there were tractor-trailers jack-knifed off the side of the road. Once I got to Oklahoma, things improved considerably.
And that's also why half an inch in Georgia causes more problems than two feet in Maine.
What bothers me is the fact the media focusses plainly on britain. Most of northern europe had issues with the snow, but they didn't get a passing mention.
Plus the fact that it isn't news. If it's snowy outside, you'll probably notice it before turning on the tele, and don't need reminding every 5 minutes for weeks on end that it's cold. Down here in the south it's extra annoying, because we don't have much snow at all. Half a mm this morning. Yet we still get the snow reports!
I envy you
I will gladly swap.
I love hearing on the news when other countries are going through a MASSIVE HEAT WAVE, only to find it's just an average day in Aussieland. I think there was one last year in Europe somewhere(narrowing it down much? Heh.) And it was a nice high 20's.
I should move. (Except for the fact I live in the best country ever.:cool:)
Damn straight.
Me too! Swap the heat for snow any day! Though it has been cooler lately. I think it's saving all the heat for Xmas...
Also Melbourne is the best.
Melbourne is great, gotta get down there again soon.
Having witnessed 4 car crashes in the last week, just because some people are too stupid to put on winter tires or snow chains, id say its better the news does that than not.
I've only been driving for just under a couple of years and this is the first time I've driven that much in snow, driving in snow isn't a problem at all, you just have to take care, it's just the idiots who take corners at 50mph or drive at 12mph down the road causing accidents are the people who should just stay at home.
Second problem, my place of work is slightly out of town, up on a very steep hill amidst the greatest natural landscape along the river Rhine. That hill is more like an iceberg at the moment. Getting up there (and down again!!) day after day is a deathly adventure for a person and impossible for cars now, including those city vehicles dispensing salt.
Where's the x-mas holidays when you need them, eh??
How's that for a snow rant?
I think you win this thread! It is a better rant than mine, thats for sure, I should count myself lucky for actually having a car, I hated the days of buses. I used to get two to work, and the timetable was set out so I'd always miss the second bus by three minutes when the first bus got to the station, no matter which bus I caught, so I sat around for 35 minutes by default anyway
Bad times!
But I rather liked those kids, freezing or not, although the kid behind me kept kicking in my back.
Well ... make that 6...
And its not so much the snow but the ice under the snow.
(the grey car slid and hit the white mini van from the side)
Edit: I know one thing after this week, when im getting a car its going to be a 4x4, and im never going to be lazy with the winter tires...
Oh god I used to hate that crap, I always used to get it, I was on a full bus once, and I had to get off to let people out it was that full, and at most stops a fat woman would come along in an obnoxious voice with "EXCUSE ME PLEASE!?!?!"
Not true! It's beautiful and mesmerising and probably on a par with watching angels frolic with magic kittens.