Call this snow ?

[SmartWombat]

I can remember as a teenager going to school on the bus with around a foot of snowfall, and there was no cry of "severe weather warnings" it was just Winter and it snowed.

This year we got 2" maybe 3" at the most and the world was going to end ...
... well you'd think so according to the TV, radio, and newspaper near hysteria.

The one time the mothers on the school trip in their gas-guzzling, road-hogging 4x4s with one kid in the back might have been justified in killing us all with their combined CO2 emissions - the schools were closed, there is justice

The roads were fine, if you had half a brain cell and knew how to drive in bad weather.

Shame the lorry driver who jack-knifed in the roadworks didn't know how to handle the winter, or the two cars about half a mile apart I saw abandoned after sliding into the centre barrier, or the two I saw bumper to bumper in the inside lane, or the one I saw pointing the wrong way in the ditch at the side of the road ...

Last time we had a bad winter, they salted the roads, and then it froze again during the day. Total chaos as people drove too fast and went off the road, or too slowly and lost momentum and jammed the hills.
I came to a hill on my way home that was almost totally iced, rough ice, frozen slush, so there was grip. But you wouldn't think so from the mile long queue of cars at the bottom stopped behind a lorry and a bus, or the car stuck in the hedge going down the hill. :mad2:
Low speed, low gear, no brakes, no accelerator, no sudden steering - I got through with absolutely no problem.

Other countries where you have real snowfall you seem to manage just fine, you make us over here look like total wusses :cryin: