Terminology

Post by **daveallgood** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:34 pm

I've been under the misapprehension that we've been having snow showers, while all the time it's been a 'weather event'. It all makes sense now.

Post by **bmcecosse** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:01 pm

Caused by Global Warming mate - don't worry about it.

Post by **timmo** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 5:08 pm

Its a throw back from the ice age we're still coming out of

Post by **simmitc** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:53 pm

It's some sort of met trickery - never been the same since they started using the foreign language of centimetres. By the time that I've worked out that the snow wasn't deep at all, I've driven through seven drifts, rescued some modern thing with the door seals frozen shut, and serviced the other Minor.

Post by **Cam** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:27 pm

I thought my old grandad had the best one. Years ago, when they first started talking about the ozone layer, he used to say: it's all them bl**dy rockets they are sending up through it!!

Used to make me laugh. Bless him.

Post by **pao7psb** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 8:34 pm

I see on the BBC that we have been renamed "Frozen Britain" following all of these extreme weather events.

Post by **mike.perry** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:31 pm

I've just been chatting on the phone to an MM owner in Canada and he has been wetting himself at the fact that Britain has come to a standstill with a few inches of snow. He recons that they would have dug themselves out and been back to normal in a couple of hours

Post by **rayofleamington** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:37 pm

they would have dug themselves out and been back to normal in a couple of hours

I'm not sure it would have taken them more than 30 minutes!

we have been renamed "Frozen Britain" following all of these extreme weather events.

Extreme????? after a few inches of snow? I'm glad I don't have time to watch TV

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:48 am

Aye, my friend in Alaska (and my other friend in Norway) think we're hilarious. When I was in AK the snow was nearly up to the 1st floor and they were going to work every day

Post by **Cam** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 11:41 am

Well, that the difference isn't it. It's been quite a few years since we have had road conditions like this and a lot of modern drivers don't know how to handle it. They either go far too fast and crash or drive at 3mph and hold everyone up. Both actions result in severe congestion as it does not take much to overload our already straining road network.

In other countries which experience more frequent bad weather they get used to it and learn to drive accordingly.

As for laughing at 'us' in this predicament, well I would have expected better from those 'noble' countries, but it just goes to show how wrong you can be.

Post by **HarryandDoreen** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:00 pm

People in Alaska and Norway may laugh at us now, but it has been scientifically proven that their infrastructure falls to pieces when they get the grey overcast weather we are normally used to.

Harry & Doreen

Post by **Pyoor_Kate** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:54 pm

In other countries which experience more frequent bad weather they get used to it and learn to drive accordingly.

Apparently not. I'm told that when the snow starts to fall the bad drivers are bad everywhere. Kara complained that people were driving too fast/too slow braking too hard, and generally making a mess of things. At least it sticks though, so they can get used to it and throw the snow tyres /chains on. Here one road's cleared, another road's ice, and another is fresh snow. Can't win with that