Southern Softies
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I find mine shrinks a bit in this weather anyway....
I wouldn't even know where else it's snowed (I avoid TV news and news websites, not a clue what's going on except bits I see on here). I've been running to work in shorts and t-shirt this week, it's just the usual weather; people go on like we've never seen it before. I quite like how snow can make the usual drab places a look a little nicer somehow.
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My God, haven't you all realised the mavity of the situation; a Southerner was trapped for a couple of hours and had to eat some snow!
As an instant comeback, I doff my tartan bunnet in your general direction. However, if you'd paid proper attention you'd realise that us real men mow into deep fried Mars bars. When I say Southern Softie, I'm including the Mackems & Tackems.
As an instant comeback, I doff my tartan bunnet in your general direction. However, if you'd paid proper attention you'd realise that us real men mow into deep fried Mars bars. When I say Southern Softie, I'm including the Mackems & Tackems.
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typical southerner. its down pit. not down the pit !
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Down tit pit.
He spent all night down there working and still had to be up for work in the morning.
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I drove to work in the snow yesterday and today with no problems at all but then I do live in the deep norf, not in the south or that Manchester/Birmingham place down south that you soft southern softies call the norf.
Heck I didn't even put my big coat on either. Hoodie was still sufficient.
Heck I didn't even put my big coat on either. Hoodie was still sufficient.
Preperation - they have the infrastructure in place because they need to. We don't because we don't. We could do it here, but the cost would be astronomical and ludicrously wasteful. It's not just the obvious cost of maintaining a fleet of equipment that would be used for a few days every couple of years at most. A fair bit of rebuilding would be needed and that's particularly expensive in urban areas that are already heavily built up. Shops would have to stock significant quantities of items that would hardly ever sell. People would have to regularly prepare for conditions that would never actually happen (like a metre of snow).
By coincidence, I watched a video on "the great white hurricane" yesterday. It was an unexpected freak blizzard that hit part of the east coast of the USA in the late 19th century. ~400 people were killed. The highest recorded snowdrift reached fifth floor windows. It spurred the rebuilding of infrastructure to withstand such conditions...which even then required widespread demolition, lengthy road and rail closures, power and communications outages and a mind-boggling expense. That was when population density was far lower and infrastructure far simpler. The cost in London today would be ridiculous. It's simply not worth it for our rather mild weather.
Nope, as already mentioned, it’s almost entirely the tyres. The rest of it is the driver.
Winter tyres...
Seriously. They don’t plow most residential roads at all, and most back roads are snow covered for 6 months of the years.
Higher ground clearance and winter tyres solve most of the issues if you leave the well maintained main roads.
They’re no better than the UK. The obsession with reporting windchill as an absolute temperature measurement gets my goat.
No, it’s not -50. It’s. -20, which isn’t exactly unique in many of the places that are cold right now. Yes, there’s some wind, but it’s irrelevant to most people as they go outside with clothes on most of their body...!
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Well played sir, well played.