Especially my little corner of it. 2 inches of snow and no other bugger came into work today. It’s terrible living out in the middle of nowh… Hang on we’re in the middle of a big bloody city and everyone except me was “snowed in” lazy fuckers.
Rest of the world who regularly see snow and temperatures lower than -1c please feel free to point and laugh.
I did write my boss that I wasn’t snowed in per se, but I would much rather go sleighing.
No dice, bastard.
Somehow I suspect that when you say “snowed in” you mean having to find your car with a metal detector and then dig it out with a spade rather than the 2 minutes of windscreen scraping it took me to rectify the “snowed in” situation this morning. I am glad that we parked the car off the hill though, I’m not on a main road so we don’t qualify for grit and that might have added at least 5 minutes to my journey this morning.
2 inches? You got 2 inches in LONDON and you are frozen in? That is pretty silly. However, I’m guessing this is so rare that you don’t have snow plow, salt trucks, etc? Is there ice on the road?
I’m in Bristol, London got at least 3 inches of snow, they’re stockpiling food and sacrificing virgins by now I’d imagine.
It’s not icy at the moment and there’s a snowplough around somewhere, probably up north where there’s about 4 inches of snow.
Any level of snow, down south at least, is fairly unusual when it lasts more than 20 seconds and there’s enough of it to make a snowman and yes, we’re running out of road grit/salt now too.
Tomorrow might be interesting, if nothing else because we’re not gritting streets other than the main roads so if it freezes tonight the road outside my house will basically be a steep hill of sheet ice and then I might think twice about getting in the car.
Plenty of salting trucks around, but I don’t know about snowploughs. The British are just terrible at handling snow, particularly in the South. Infinite amounts of rain and some flooding are fine, but snow makes us fall apart. It’s reassuringly quirky.
It also adds to my theory that you shouldn’t try and understand the British unless you are British. We’re the oddest nation on Earth. Anglophilia is fine as long as you leave it at that.
I always get a good laugh when the news show footage from the UK (or the warmer parts of the US for that matter) when you get a little snow. People without any experience or snow tires trying to drive in the snow = hilarity ensues.
We don’t exactly have the same hard winters we used to have when I was a kid, but two inches barely qualifies as snowfall up here.
I lived in England in 1975* when there was a drought and a heatwave at the same time. Everything stopped. No one went outside. It was like the local clotted cream tea rooms had been moved to Angola.
(*I think it was '75, but it could have been '74, or even '73, I guess. It was many, many drinks ago. I hated living there but it wasn’t the weather that drove me away.)
but snow makes us fall apart.
And leaves, dont forget the leaves.
Nellie, skip work and go down that insane hill you have with a sleigh instead!
I’m very tempted. Well not my hill, it ends in a road and brick wall but this is the first time I can remember snow here that’s actually deep enough and lasting long enough to consider a sledge since I was about 15.
But I just mailed my boss to point out that I’m the only one who bothered to turn up to work today so the deluge of extra work covering for people who are probably still in bed is just about to arrive I should imagine.
I meant the street somewhere in Bristol, can’t remember the name, that’s insanely steep.
That’s a bit like saying “That street in Amsterdam that’s a bit flat” but I reckon you might mean the aptly named Constitution hill. I might just take a chair and a flask of coffee there tomorrow because I reckon it could be entertaining watching cars/people try to go up or come down it.
Especially if you pour some water on it tonight!
That’s the one!
Especially if you pour some water on it tonight!
I like your thinking!
We have the same situation here in North Carolina. It snowed last week and the entire city was incapped. Schools closed, businesses shuttered, etc. The entire place was dead for a day. We’re just not equipped to deal with it.
Same in Alabama. Schools close early when there is a forecast of snow and the bread and milk dissapear from store shelves within hours.
Ah yes, I forgot about the bread/milk/water. Whenever a flake falls, the shelves at all local stores are ravaged by those preparing for the coming apocalypse.