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Post by The Curmudgeon on Nov 29, 2010 18:42:12 GMT 2
Where pretty much everywhere, the story is this. www.channel4.com/news/uk-snow-its-going-to-get-worseAll trains, buses, roads - useless. We were coming back from my parents house and it was living driving through the Arctic, with cars lying abandoned like a frozen zombie movie. We managed, by the way. Just. It's the same story every year, it seems. It snows and the UK goes into, a-ha, meltdown. Yet we never seem to be able to come up with a solution to the problem, and every year this blind mad panic grips people. We ran out of salt for the roads last year - in the whole country - and people were using CAT LITTER instead. So is it just us? Do we all suffer from some sort of amnesia that, when we DO suffer snowmageddon, we don't think, "right, so what's the plan when it happens again next year?" Or are we all as hopeless as each other? |
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Post by trashcanman on Nov 29, 2010 21:35:15 GMT 2
And here people are acting like global warming is a bad thing. Make up your minds, man! You like the ice age or post-apocalyptic desert dystopia? Nah, I've scarcely been out of Central California and we see snow not more than once a decade (dense fog is our thing) and when it does it's light enough that if you aren't looking outside when it happens, you may not even notice it did. The one time in my life we had substantial snowfall, it shut the fucking city down, though. They canceled all of my college courses for the day. Good times.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 2, 2010 1:39:38 GMT 2
Ah, fog. Another fun one. We used to have fog like you mentioned in the UK (well, so my dad told me), but I've never seen anything as bad as you mentioned.
Right now, the whole of the UK is still in chaos. No flights, no trains, no buses. I started a new job (part time till Christmas, major employers are a little reluctant to hire someone going on holiday for 2 weeks on Christmas Day) and my trainer got her car stranded half way from her house and had to abandon it and walk home). Free day, yes! And with 3 hours of WWE to watch by the fire. God works in mysterious ways.
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 2, 2010 9:16:28 GMT 2
Yeah, when my windshield defroster crapped out, the fog froze to my windshield and I had to drive with my door open and my head hanging out so I could see the median line and make sure I was still on my side of the road because the entire fucking world was literally white. Looked like that movie, The Mist, but at 55 miles an hour. Actually, I slowed down to about 25, which was terrifying because I figured some numbnuts behind me would be doing 55 blind and slam into my ass. We don't get it that bad anymore, but goddamn fog is a bitch.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 2, 2010 21:49:12 GMT 2
Holy shit. Bit like this, then?  |
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 2, 2010 23:11:55 GMT 2
Yeah, but I had a big truck so looking out the window still wasn't good enough. I had to open the door and look down at the road from there.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Dec 21, 2010 15:48:06 GMT 2
A few weeks on and it's STILL the same old story. Last week we missed a gig we had paid 100 bucks for because of the snow. The people trapped on the motorway that we would have used had to spend THE ENTIRE DAY AND NIGHT trapped, so, uh, I wasn't too bothered with losing that money. Our flights out are on Christmas Day though, and Heathrow Airport has been entirely closed for a few days now, so this is one time I REALLY don't want a white Christmas.
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