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You lot over there, listen up!

It's snow. Just snow. It's just the slightly colder version of that stuff you get 364 days out of 365 anyway.

Get over it.

Brought to you by a grumpy bear whose walk to work for over as month now has been characterised by snow, ice, slush, filthy puddles of not quite frozen melt and every possible combination of the aforesaid.

Date: 2009-02-02 12:36 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lnr
Just because you moved somewhere that gets *real* snow don't begrudge us our joy at a rare event. This is more snow than I've ever seen in Cambridge in 10 years of living here. In fact I don't think I've seen this much since I was a kid. We may start to hate it once it gets to a horrid slushy state, but for now it's beautiful and cycling in this morning was great fun.

Date: 2009-02-02 12:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com
Yes, it's just snow, but we have it so rarely that it is a treat/menace. We don't have many snow ploughs because they're not cost effective; we don't have chains for our cars because ditto. And on the plus side, because it's so rare many of us find our Inner Child bursting out and making snowmen and having snowball fights. I think this is the first time there's been enough snow for those up here near Manchester since I moved here at the end of 2000. The last snow like this that I experienced in the London area was, I think, February 1996.

Date: 2009-02-02 12:37 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] radinden
If I too could walk to work, I'd be there. However, six inches of the funny white stuff has crippled buses, trams, trains and almost every other form of transport. And I live ten miles from work. I suspect that the difference between where you are and where I am is that for you, a month of the stuff means that there's actually a political imperative to make sure everything doesn't grind to a halt. Over here, everyone's glad of the free day at home.

Date: 2009-02-02 12:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com
The fact that a bit of snow completely grounds every bit of public transport and closes schools and offices never ceases to amaze me.

Date: 2009-02-02 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiendish-cat.livejournal.com
It hasn't. Most of the tube lines have been running - albeit with some delays and part suspensions. Apparently they didn't do the usual nightime engineering works last night but instead ran snow trains up and down the overground parts of the underground to try and keep the lines clear.

Date: 2009-02-02 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] globetrotter1.livejournal.com
How long before state of emergency is declared? ;-)

Date: 2009-02-02 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secritcrush.livejournal.com
SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW day!!!

Date: 2009-02-02 01:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] badasstronaut.livejournal.com
It's just getting going here! The floaty flakes look so pretty!

Date: 2009-02-02 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com
It might get close to 0C today here. Hooray...

Date: 2009-02-02 01:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com
Hee! Has British civilization collapsed yet?

Date: 2009-02-03 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com
So, again, what to do? My considered advice is this. You, Guardian reader, need to begin building a boat - a sailing ship, actually - to take you to - yes, Canada. Before you leave the city you should pause at a library and steal the entire boat-making and maintenance shelf. Canada may be your only hope of salvation. And that is as fitting an obituary for our civilisation as I can type. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/29/apocalypse-survival-guide-tanya-gold)

Date: 2009-02-02 01:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com
I remember feeling that way back in California when once in a decade or so snow might happen. It usually wasn't even enough to scrape a handful off parked cars to make a single pathetic snowball but, we tried. In primary school we once had a puddle turn to solid ice and everyone was crowding on top of it trying to pretend they were skating.

I still get that feeling when the first significant snow comes (even better if I have someone around who isn't too grown up to go out and play and not just Mr.Grumpypants telling me how depressed I'll be in three months ;)

Unfortunately ...within six weeks the magic doesn't work anymore. At that point I save my excitement for the very rare day when temperatures are above freezing but its not raining.

Yesterday it got up to 4C and we danced with the fire escape door open, and there was sunlight too!

Date: 2009-02-02 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com
Well, apparently it is more snow than London has seen for 18 years.

Radio Scotland has been full of people in the Highlands laughing at the wussy southerners...

Date: 2009-02-02 02:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiendish-cat.livejournal.com
Hey...we're not wussy, we're loving it. It's just the buses and trains that are scared of it.

Date: 2009-02-02 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frankie-ecap.livejournal.com
If the buses knew that they had a higher power, they wouldn't be scared.

Date: 2009-02-03 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com
They do, natural gas.

Date: 2009-02-02 02:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imyril.livejournal.com
Get over it.

No.

Date: 2009-02-02 03:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassandre.livejournal.com
Woo-hoo, snow! A young (and ungrammatical) shop assistant just asked me, "Have you throwed a snowball yet, or are you holding back?"

I assured him I have throwed many snowballs already today.

Date: 2009-02-02 03:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] owlfish
Ah, but this is snow with a civilized, built-in feature: it will all have melted away (and the melt drained) within a few days so we won't have the slush and filthy puddles will be transient. I think I can safely count on all this here.

Date: 2009-02-02 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zantic.livejournal.com
You haz just made me Lolz all over the keyboard.

I agree in principle, but I'm also wondering whether the train will bother turning up to take me home tonight. I don't fancy walking for an hour and a half while it's snowing.

Date: 2009-02-02 06:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
Went to Lincolnshire and back. Yes, there was some snow. Trains all ran perfectly to time, taxi ditto, got back a couple of hours earlier than expected.

Date: 2009-02-02 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vonandmoggy.livejournal.com
I've been walking 1- 1 1/2 hrs per day in it. I'm sick of it.

*sulks*

Date: 2009-02-02 10:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sabotabby
Hahaha.

Date: 2009-02-02 11:19 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
Would it be more sensible to make the huge investment needed in snow blowers, snowploughs, tyre chains/special snow tyres etc for the three or four days in the year we might need them? This chaos is actually a reasonable payoff for the investment which would be wasted most days of teh year.

Anyway, the snow's pretty and we haven't got enough to be a problem here in the Midlands.

Date: 2009-02-03 12:37 am (UTC)

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