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[mantahatch]

It's getting right on my tit's all this nonsense. Not 15 yrs ago I walked miles through thigh deep snow to get to the train station, got a train to town, crossed town through deep snow,got anther train then waded through it again to the Hopsital I worked in. Trains worked, I worked ...end of.

Emails from work today, it's going to snow.....weather warning.....don't travel unless nescessary..We run a drug treatment service, if the homeless,vulnerable and desperate of society can make it to our sites then the least I can do is get my arse out of my comfy warm bed and deal with them as they expect.

Country has turned into a pile of shitty wussie lilly livered pansies who can't be arsed putting the effort in.

P.s  anyone fancy doing a snow chain guide tonight by torchlight as I haven't a clue and can't be arsed in the morning

I never missed a day at school due to bad weather. No bus, no problem WALK. Did the three miles in deep drifts (one year the snow was so deep it was over peoples six foot high hedges) to the main road then wait for a pay bus. I remember once getting to school at 10.12 a.m. Got such a bo11ocking and the cane for "being late".

I think it was 1974. We had really, really bad snow, My brother was home on leave from the army (in Germany) and set off in his Capri. He abandoned it stuck in a drift 20 miles away. It was over a week before the road was re opened. and I could recover it. He got jankers (posh word for days scrubbing dustbins till the bosses boots could be seen in it) for arriving back 50 minutes late. Two days later my Mother had to abandon her Mini in snow despite having knobbly tyres and being a very capable driver. The next day, my Dad had an accident on a tractor when a towing chain came loose and knocked him off when it hit his his nose. The doctor walked FOUR miles across the fields and reset his face/nose in our kitchen.

It makes me laugh when I see a Sky News presenter at Watford (the North) saying how bad it is with half a cm on the ground.

I never missed a day at school either. But that was probably in the days when the teachers also lived in the community. Nowadays teachers are so highly paid they can afford to live miles away and when the snow arrives they cannot make it to work so they close the school, simples.

Our school at the time had 1200 pupils, and I knew where at least 4 of my teachers lived, and if necessary could find out where the rest lived by talking to friends etc.
Heck some days I walked to school with my geography teacher as he lived in the same road as me.

And no teachers houses where ever attacked, and no teachers where ever attacked. I am talking about secondary school 11-16, and that was 1976-1981 for me.

[aaronjb]

Oh my, what a drama. The thing is, IME, there is really no need to struggle to work unless you are emergency services. If there is immense snow, then there will be so many absentees a lot of businesses will not be operating as normal anyway, if at all. Shopkeepers and the like should not stress if staff cannot make. Customers won't either.

That falls down when you start thinking of international service industries, though .. just because it's snowing here, our customers from the rest of the world from Germany to China will still be calling, so we need the support staff here to answer them.

Granted if it's really apocalyptic we've been known to have Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing & Shanghai stay online into their night and then Seattle & Spokane come in early (the latter two usually through a lot more snow than we have! )