Severe Weather.

it never fails to astonish me that an inch or so of snow can cause so much disruption. I notice that this week there is a ski-ing resort in the US which is trumpeting the fact that they have had 24 to 36 inches of snowfall - this week! How would we go on if it was like that here? Severe weather indeed! Southern Drama Queens more like!
 
slinky said:
When taking my son to school this morning I was soooo suprised when he turned round and said ''guess we will have to stop in at break time again'', I asked why and he said ''cos we are not allowed to play out in the snow''. THEN YOU WONDER WHY KIDS ARE GROWING UP SOFT. When I was at school we could be six feet under the snow and we were made to play out while the teachers stayed in the office drinking warm coffee by the fire!!! but we enjoyed it cos thats what kids do!!
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When I went to school we used to have snowball fights, and when I mentioned this to my wife (who takes our son to school), she told me that they are not allowed to do this.

Apparently it's dangerous.

I really worry about this country sometimes
 
I seem to remembered it has snowed before in living memory, yet we are always taken by suprise @ grind to a halt. The rest of the world seems to cope without such a fuss, l ve just shouted at some silly kids for trying to skate on the ice @ the nature reserve, l won't say what they shouted back.
 
vorlon24 said:
When I went to school we used to have snowball fights, and when I mentioned this to my wife (who takes our son to school), she told me that they are not allowed to do this.

Apparently it's dangerous.

I really worry about this country sometimes
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Yes your wife is right!! When I took my sons into the school play ground the head mistress was telling then ''don't throw snow balls'' then doing a really bad job of showing them how to have fun in the snow without throwing it!!!........................the kids just stared at her like she had grown a second head!
 
i used to love it when it snowed as pendy will verify, we used to throw snowballs at the girls who came out of paddock house, cos they wore their motorboard hats then, he he he must say i admit to getting one or two hats off.;)
 
Acrylic-bob said:
What was she doing?
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KICKING IT AROUND ON THE FLOOR lets just say I think she may have got her head kicked of the bigger kids after I left the yard. DAFT MOO
 
mez said:
i used to love it when it snowed as pendy will verify, we used to throw snowballs at the girls who came out of paddock house, cos they wore their motorboard hats then, he he he must say i admit to getting one or two hats off.;)
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now now mez, kids maybe reading this thread, and they are encouraged not to take part in snow ball fights. Do you know how many injuries there have been reported through throwing the soft snow that falls from our sky!!! there have been loss off eyeballs.........serious head injuries.............suffocation (hehehe used to like T BAGGING PEOPLE THAT WAS FUN) so please take a leaf out of my sons teachers book and just show the kids how to kick the snow (hell the teacher was having a good old time)
 
planet p/c (not comps either) when will they see that kids NEEDto play//
 
mez said:
planet p/c (not comps either) when will they see that kids NEEDto play//
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Tell me about poor little sod's. They wait all year for snow, keeps them awake at night cos they are so excited then the bloody teachers won't let them play in it.
 
hi acrylic bob omg the weather outside is asolutely ridiculous im in college and its snowing heavy and they wont send us home its stupid
 
And quite right too! Get on with your work. We are relying on you to get a good job and support us all when we retire. How are you going to do that when you are hardly ever at college? What are you studying by the way, don't tell me it's Media Studies?
 
I remember when i was at Moorehead one of St. Christophers teachers coming round all the classrooms at Moorehead with the Head Master Mr. Neville trying to identify her snowball assailent lol!! Now they were snowball fights!!!
 
Good for you! Acrylic-biff and I have spent a splendid morning outdoors, playing "fetch" with snowballs and building a snowdog - his idea not mine - and now we are looking forward to an outing to the coast this afternoon. No time off for us just because it's snowing or because a double period of Quantum Physics is stressing us out. We just have to get on with it.
 
Yup, I remember all too well getting my mortar board knocked off - thanks, Mez! We are coming up this weekend - should I be bringing skis, etc?

As for it taking us by surprise, going back one weekend the train to Preston was 20 minutes late. When we asked why, and why it was going so slowly, the guard told us it was because of the rain! - possibly wrong type - the trains slipped on the rails. THIS IS LANCASHIRE!!! - IT RAINS!! - A LOT!! It was never like this when we were kids, there was plenty of snow then, but everybody cleared their own paths and put ashes down, AND the roads were gritted.
 
That used to be quite a popular excuse when I used the Accrington to Burnley line. It's because of the danger of flooding. The line has been there for the last 150 years and has never once, in all that time, been washed away by a raging torrent. Why should it be a pressing problem now all of a sudden?
 
slinky said:
When taking my son to school this morning I was soooo suprised when he turned round and said ''guess we will have to stop in at break time again'', I asked why and he said ''cos we are not allowed to play out in the snow''. THEN YOU WONDER WHY KIDS ARE GROWING UP SOFT. When I was at school we could be six feet under the snow and we were made to play out while the teachers stayed in the office drinking warm coffee by the fire!!! but we enjoyed it cos thats what kids do!!
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Shall only write one word on reply to that Litigation.

Well maybe a few more.

Apparantly a girl from Mount Carmel had to be taken to hospital yesterday, due to a snowball hitting her eye. I think it must have contained ice.

I for one don't like children playing out in the snow at school, it's okay when at home as when they come in they can change into dry clothes. They can't do that at school, unless they have a PE kit in school.
 
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