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No snow but it's like that Disaster movie where everything is frozen & white & ******* freezing. ![Frown :( :(](/styles/default/xenforo/vbSmilies/Normal/frown.gif)
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I left Grangemouth at 2pm didn't get back to Edinburgh until 3.45pm, traffic coming out of Edinburgh was significantly worse
Aberdeen is prettty bad tbh. Main roads are cleared but the pavements and any side road/streets are just solid ice with around 4" of compacted snow on top. Awful for getting about.
* Luke Harding in Moscow
* The Guardian, Friday 9 February 2007
* Article history
Schools open, trains running normally, airports functioning without delay. Welcome to Moscow where, unlike paralysed Britain, life continued much as usual yesterday, despite 15cm of snow and temperatures as low as -27C (-17F).
After the warmest December and January on record, Russia's winter arrived on Wednesday night, carpeting the capital in whiteness and freezing the Moscow river. But when it comes to winter the Russians have one thing the British lack - a comprehensive plan. From the early hours of yesterday an army of snegoborochnaya mashina - snowploughs - took to Moscow's streets.
The city council employs some 50,000 workers to clear snow from yards. Result: everyone gets to work on time. Marina Orlova, a spokeswoman for the council, said: "For us winter starts on October 15. It ends in March. We have a committee of experts who meet every day at 5pm. They include a weather expert and an official from the crisis ministry. If there's going to be snow, we load up trucks and send them out.
Yep, pretty bad today, several accidents just outside the hotel were working at, bus slid into a car directly below us.Never seen Portstewart like that!
Its shocking. I work with a few guys that came over here from Russia and they can't believe how bad they government lets it get.
Russia gets it EVERY YEAR without fail of coarse they do things better than us
Russia gets it EVERY YEAR without fail of coarse they do things better than us
So, we shouldn't even bother to try and do what they do? One pavement I walk along actually has a mountain of dumped snow from a snowplough!![]()
If you're referring to the bit about clearing pavements and getting sued if someone slips on it, then yes it is true.Isn't that a complete urban myth?
all the extra equipment, all the extra staff costing the government millions a year, yet they may only be used every 4-5 years. Seems a waste of money to me.
What they need to get back to is allowing locals (and farmer) to clear roads/pavements. Right now they say if someone slips/crashes on a pavement/road you cleared, you are liable to be sued. How is that fair?
I heard on a local radio station this morning, that local councils and the department of regional development here, have been negotiating for 10 years about who's responsible for salting/clearing pavements. Still no decision taken, cash strapped councils were actually considering getting road sweeping teams to clear pavements.all the extra equipment, all the extra staff costing the government millions a year, yet they may only be used every 4-5 years. Seems a waste of money to me.
What they need to get back to is allowing locals (and farmer) to clear roads/pavements. Right now they say if someone slips/crashes on a pavement/road you cleared, you are liable to be sued. How is that fair?
Aberdeen is prettty bad tbh. Main roads are cleared but the pavements and any side road/streets are just solid ice with around 4" of compacted snow on top. Awful for getting about.