News Reports Exaggerating Weather Conditions
Silk
They seem to go out of their way to find some dark valley somewhere
where the snow is 6 feet deep or some muppet who's been stuck in the
snow since yesterday.
It would be nice if they put the truth before a good story. Not much
chance of that though.
Adrian
saying:
> Why do they do it? It's nothing like as bad out there as they say it is.
>
> They seem to go out of their way to find some dark valley somewhere
> where the snow is 6 feet deep
The snow's 5" deep on the path to the front gate here. I'm in the middle
of a town, the M25 is a mile away, and there's a tube station at the end
of the road.
Keith
What's your point? 5" of snow is easily passable by every modern car.
Silk
Adrian is a prick, so he always has a point. Quite what that point is,
no one knows.
I'm sure he'll be back to explain himself.
Just to add that, as far as the newsworthyness is concerned, an inch of
snow in the Home Counties is the equivalent of a foot everywhere else.
Ret.
We had a 5" fall overnight Monday/Tuesday and then another 5" overnight
Tuesday/Wednesday. I helped my grand-daughter build a snowman in the back
garden on Tuesday and stuck an old cloth cap on the top of it. On Wednesday
morning there was another 5" of snow on the top of the cap.
Still managed to get her home to Warrington on Wednesday afternoon however -
and heavy snow was still falling most of the way there and all the way back.
Kev
IanT
"Silk" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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You need to get out more you idiot.
IanT
"Adrian" <tooma...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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There was 8 inches of snow here which is no big problem in itself.
The problem is when it is compacted and freezes, or when it goes to
slush and then freezes. At the moment the road at the bottom of mine
has a few cars that have hit the pavements due to ice. One car was
parked at 90degrees to the pavement after being hit near a junction.
There are lots of problems caused by weather conditions. Maybe when
the children moaning are old enough to have a driving licence they will
appreciate how difficult it is to drive on ice. Try driving when snow
has fallen on previously compacted snowthat has frozen over!
Local councils are penny pinching and not gritting despite warnings, so
this has also added to problems. Fortunately I can get to work without
using the car, the same for local shops.
I did try and drive earlier on today but found the car slipping too much
so left it. People in 4x4 vehicles did think they were OK, so I filmed a
few
of them sliding about and going out of control.
One car had small chains fitted to the tyres and that couldn't get up a
hill.
Vicko Zoomba
Relevent to what...?
Silk
I do. That's why I know what I'm talking about.
Silk
It's in the South East, which means it's real as far as the media is
concerned.
Conor
Because its snowing in London. You'll note the only time it ever gets a
shitload of coverage is when there's a bit of disruption in the South
East.
--
Conor
www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk
I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
Conor
> saying:
> The snow's 5" deep on the path to the front gate here. I'm in the
> middle
> of a town, the M25 is a mile away, and there's a tube station at the
> end
> of the road.
And? Describes pretty much the last few weeks here.
NM
Of course, why are you surprised, everyone knows that the home
counties is really England, all the rest is merely the supporting act.
Nick Finnigan
>
> There was 8 inches of snow here which is no big problem in itself.
> The problem is when it is compacted and freezes, or when it goes to
> slush and then freezes. At the moment the road at the bottom of mine
> has a few cars that have hit the pavements due to ice. One car was
> parked at 90degrees to the pavement after being hit near a junction.
> There are lots of problems caused by weather conditions. Maybe when
> the children moaning are old enough to have a driving licence they will
> appreciate how difficult it is to drive on ice. Try driving when snow
> has fallen on previously compacted snowthat has frozen over!
That's what I had for the journey to work on Monday morning over 10 miles
of NSL unclassified ungritted roads, left over from before Christmas.
> Local councils are penny pinching and not gritting despite warnings, so
> this has also added to problems. Fortunately I can get to work without
> using the car, the same for local shops.
Easier to drive on than to walk in ordinary shoes.
(and no, I don't have winter tyres but neither do I have low profile,
energy, teflon or high speed tyres. And, no I didn't notice the sex of the
only driver I saw needing to turn around, I concentrate on the road.)
Adrian
saying:
> Because its snowing in London. You'll note the only time it ever gets a
> shitload of coverage is when there's a bit of disruption in the South
> East.
<shrug> The SE, Greater London and the East of England are only one third
of the population of the country - and the most economically active third
at that...
Bod
Bod
Nkosi (ama-ecosse)
How can they be when there are more people claiming JSA in London than
the rest of the UK put together.
Nkosi
Adrian
much like they were saying:
>> <shrug> The SE, Greater London and the East of England are only one
>> third of the population of the country - and the most economically
>> active third at that...
> How can they be when there are more people claiming JSA in London than
> the rest of the UK put together.
Even assuming that was vaguely relevant, your source for that figure
would be...?
Conor
Yet they rely on the rest of the UK to supply them....
Bod
>
> "Adrian" <tooma...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7qln28...@mid.individual.net...
>> "Conor" <co...@gmx.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
>> saying:
>>
>>> Because its snowing in London. You'll note the only time it ever gets a
>>> shitload of coverage is when there's a bit of disruption in the South
>>> East.
>>
>> <shrug> The SE, Greater London and the East of England are only one third
>> of the population of the country - and the most economically active third
>> at that...
>
> Yet they rely on the rest of the UK to supply them....
>
>
Bod
Adrian
saying:
>> <shrug> The SE, Greater London and the East of England are only one
>> third of the population of the country - and the most economically
>> active third at that...
> Yet they rely on the rest of the UK to supply them....
Why wouldn't anybody import from cheaper areas, wherever possible?
Bod
He forgets that by them supplying us, they get a job.
Bod
Conor
"Bod" <bodr...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Adrian wrote:
>
> He forgets that by them supplying us, they get a job.
>
I think that there'd be 100,000's more with jobs if certain people down
south had stayed at home.