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Originally Posted by Jim Procter
I have noticed that there are no threads regarding snow on Accyweb. Have you had none?
We have got tons of the stuff here in the East Riding. I have not been out of my drive since Tuesday and it is still snowing now.There is at least 18 inches of snow piled on and round my car.There has been no postman for 3 days.
I can remember 1947 when we lived in Intack in Blackburn. There was snow everywhere for days on end.Deep stuff that kept us off work. And 1963 when it was just as bad.
But here in the North-East it is pretty bad. All the schools are closed till at least Monday. The doctors surgeries are closed.People are walking to work as the buses only run when they feel like it. Trains are non-existent.
A lorry driver arrived on Hull Docks from Europe where he had no problems,but within 2 miles he was stuck in snowdrifts.Why does it only happen in this country? Scandinavia gets this weather for 4 months each year and manages quite well.Our infra-structure is lousy Why?
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Have another look Jim, think the answer your after is, as you say, places such as Scandinavia have 4 months of this weather guaranteed each winter and provide the resources and equipment to cope, here its different, some years we don't have any snow at all, well very little, and having expensive machinery mothballed for 11 months a years is not workable