[WR] Haytor 16/11/06 (sleety windscreen shower)
Will Hand
windscreen.
This will NOT go down in my records though as I was driving and it looked and
felt like rain once I stopped at home.
Will.
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Keith (Southend)
Again it makes me think what chaos there will be if we get half a winter
this year, when I heard that they were having to open/close the Dartford
Tunnel this evening as the volume of traffic was becoming stationary
inside. The whole nightmare scenario just frightens the life out of me
as global warming or no global warming, it's going to happen one day and
it's well over due.
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Peter Thomas
<dev....@southendweather.net> writes
>Will Hand wrote:
>> Experienced a sleety shower driving around 2030, just some solid bits on the
>> windscreen.
>> This will NOT go down in my records though as I was driving and it looked and
>> felt like rain once I stopped at home.
snip Mr Hand's disclaimer
>
>Again it makes me think what chaos there will be if we get half a
>winter this year, when I heard that they were having to open/close the
>Dartford Tunnel this evening as the volume of traffic was becoming
>stationary inside. The whole nightmare scenario just frightens the life
>out of me as global warming or no global warming, it's going to happen
>one day and it's well over due.
>
Yes. I am aware that statistically, 'well overdue' has no effect on
immediate probability in this instance, but instinct says that when we
get any sort of proper winter, it will take a rigidly rather than
robustly engineered transport system by surprise.
You may recall the entertainment a few years ago when East Anglia
more-or-less came to a halt with snow. Richard-and-Judy of Channel 4
said on television that this sort of thing was outrageous and must not
be allowed to happen again. The Highways Agency were therefore 'tasked'
with ensuring this.
All very well and good, but if a system is running on or beyond the
limits of its intended capacity, and things start going wrong - an
accumulation of relatively minor collisions, say, then one rather
wonders whether, say, snow might make the difference between keeping
going and seizing up.
The real nightmare might be freezing fog or black ice if the gritters
have not been able to get through. Did someone say some hard shoulders
were to be deleted?
Or had I totally missed the point?
Speaking of which, torrential rain started about a minute ago here in
Godalming.
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Peter Thomas