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| Snow disaster continues in UK |
| 2009-02-06 |
| More than 200 people had to be rescued from their cars after they became trapped by heavy snow in Devon. The story neglects to mention the depth of the snow. The video shows a few inches at the most. A TV news program last week mentioned that the City of London hasn't a single snow plow. Maybe the US could send a C17 full of snow shovels to be dropped on the UK. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #8 Canuckistan sniper, I don't suppose you actually are a former CF sniper are you? Any chance you have a daughter named Tabitha... |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-02-06 16:22 |
| #7 He's trying to keep the Californians and Coloradans from building summer homes there. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-02-06 15:36 |
| #6 Hey, Canuckistan sniper, you're not from the tourist bureau are you? ;^) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-02-06 15:08 |
| #5 Hey Chemist!!! I thought I was the only 'burger from the Peg. Only two more months to go before we can start sandbagging against the floods, eh? From the floods come the mosquitos. From the mosquitos come the wish for winter and the snow. Ahh Winnipeg. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2009-02-06 14:52 |
| #4 I'm from Winnipeg (AKA Winterpeg). There is snow on the ground 5 months of the year. Much of the snow removing equipment one sees clearing the roads are not specialty items just for show. You see front end loaders and graters used all the time. Seems to me that I see them more often than I see 'snowplows' or 'snowblowers'. Doesn't London have any of these? |
| Posted by: Chemist 2009-02-06 14:39 |
| #3 Why, there's so much support for Global Warming there, how are the puppets on BBC 4 dealing with this ? |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-02-06 14:03 |
| #2 No snowplows for London and just a few at the airports. I lived there for 6 years 1997-2003 and it only snowed once - the day we left, ironically. It was a duster, that's all. We played golf 12 months a year, rain or shine. I don't know if the NPV of buying, maintaining and underusing snowplows versus lost productivity is positive but I doubt it. Best to deal with wet leaves on the rail tracks and frozen points on the system to keep the Underground and NetRail running. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-02-06 12:04 |
| #1 If they had this same mentality about 70 years ago, they'd be speaking German. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-06 11:52 |