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By *wazulu OP Man
over a year ago
edinburgh |
Other counties around the world continue to operate despite the snow.
Here we have a few inches and it's chaos, flights, trains, roads and schools can't cope. What are we doing wrong?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Other places get long cold hard winters and are geared up for it.
No point spending millions on machinery when we get a few inches per year.
It’s winter it snows. Suck it up or move abroad.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Other places get long cold hard winters and are geared up for it.
No point spending millions on machinery when we get a few inches per year.
It’s winter it snows. Suck it up or move abroad. "
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"Other places get long cold hard winters and are geared up for it.
No point spending millions on machinery when we get a few inches per year.
It’s winter it snows. Suck it up or move abroad. "
This.
There's no point in us spending millions to heat the pavements in city centres (Oslo, Norway) or changing road structures to allow for ploughed snow banks and clearance space for shovelled snow on driveways etc because it is such a rare thing here. We don't have 3 solid months of up to our knees snow. We're lucky if we get a few wee flurries over winter. Councils are struggling to keep teachers in front of pupils and the NHS is hemorrhaging but the government will barely give the funding for a plaster. If there's no money for that why would local or central governments spend money on gritters, ploughs and the man power for something that might not be needed or only needed for a week?
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Other places get long cold hard winters and are geared up for it.
No point spending millions on machinery when we get a few inches per year.
It’s winter it snows. Suck it up or move abroad.
This.
There's no point in us spending millions to heat the pavements in city centres (Oslo, Norway) or changing road structures to allow for ploughed snow banks and clearance space for shovelled snow on driveways etc because it is such a rare thing here. We don't have 3 solid months of up to our knees snow. We're lucky if we get a few wee flurries over winter. Councils are struggling to keep teachers in front of pupils and the NHS is hemorrhaging but the government will barely give the funding for a plaster. If there's no money for that why would local or central governments spend money on gritters, ploughs and the man power for something that might not be needed or only needed for a week?
V x"
This exactly.
People in other counties contribute and pay for by means of tax or privately for the service to keep roads, private housing develops and their drive ways etc clear of snow. If we were asked to contribute to that there'd be even more outrage than that caused by a few cancelled flights etc.
The flip side of the coin, no other country in the worlds has a free health service to compare to ours, that's where your tax goes. So given the option I think most people would chose free health care.
Only bugbear I have about the snow here is it's ability to demonstrate just how bad lots of people actually are at driving!! It's actually shocking. |
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"Other places get long cold hard winters and are geared up for it.
No point spending millions on machinery when we get a few inches per year.
It’s winter it snows. Suck it up or move abroad.
This.
There's no point in us spending millions to heat the pavements in city centres (Oslo, Norway) or changing road structures to allow for ploughed snow banks and clearance space for shovelled snow on driveways etc because it is such a rare thing here. We don't have 3 solid months of up to our knees snow. We're lucky if we get a few wee flurries over winter. Councils are struggling to keep teachers in front of pupils and the NHS is hemorrhaging but the government will barely give the funding for a plaster. If there's no money for that why would local or central governments spend money on gritters, ploughs and the man power for something that might not be needed or only needed for a week?
V x
This exactly.
People in other counties contribute and pay for by means of tax or privately for the service to keep roads, private housing develops and their drive ways etc clear of snow. If we were asked to contribute to that there'd be even more outrage than that caused by a few cancelled flights etc.
The flip side of the coin, no other country in the worlds has a free health service to compare to ours, that's where your tax goes. So given the option I think most people would chose free health care.
Only bugbear I have about the snow here is it's ability to demonstrate just how bad lots of people actually are at driving!! It's actually shocking. "
This, i see so many driving as if its the same weather,driving the same (fast) even though the wee temperature displays probably displaying -3 on the dashboard,so are they driving the same trusting and hoping the road has been gritted?
Sorry,but you cant drive like that just hoping all is ok,and tailgating with a higher risk of less grip is madness too. |
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By *alcon43Woman
over a year ago
Paisley |
Last year the freeze lasted more than just a few days. I had snow for 2-3 weeks. The shops were running low on basics like bread and milk and the milk tankers couldn’t collect the milk from the farms. I live in an area with a lot of dairy herds.
For some areas it may only be a day or two but for others it isn’t. Maybe there could be a task force with resources that go to the areas that need it with gritters and snowploughs.
I had to get home from hospital last year after an operation just as there were a few inches of snow on the ground. It wasn’t fun for my friend who drove me home as my roads are on an incline.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The press here hype everything up so we go panic buy and stock up on every conceivable thing we can lay our hands on. But I think the real problem is that our driving standards are so poor. A 17 year old can start lessons and have a full licence within 6 weeks, so never having driven in rain, snow, dark etc. We need to revisit how we drive in winter conditions. We drive too close and too fast and some only clear a small amount of ice from the windscreen. In the grand scheme of things very few people know how to drive in the snow safely. And if I ask on here how you drive in the snow there will we so many different answer. I am by no means an expert at it but I've had various lessons on how to drive in different conditions and the difference is incredable. |
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A lot of funding goes in to flooding prevention which I would say is a good idea but it would also help if we all had winter tyres, you would be surprised how many people haven’t actually heard of them. |
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By *ikilovesCCouple
over a year ago
village life, closest main town inverness |
We're better set up for this kind of weather up here to be sure,
have to say the snowplough drivers do a fantastic job of keeping the roads passable
and they work long hours in some atrocious conditions so kudos to them all  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A lot of funding goes in to flooding prevention which I would say is a good idea but it would also help if we all had winter tyres, you would be surprised how many people haven’t actually heard of them."
Good point, some European countries it's the law to have them in your car in winter. Dealers are obliged to store them and fit then F.O.C. our road safety laws are so out of date now it's unbelievable. |
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