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[Marie]

its going to SNOW and BAD

its BAD enough we are even being givin time off work to travel home even with the risk we might not make it back sunday night. :

[aaronjb]

Time off for snow?

The local train service here has already cancelled tomorrows trains and folks working here were told to make arrangements with colleagues to travel via alternative means if they rely on the trains (e.g. drive, someone who lives in the same town as the office, etc)..

[Elite Pete]

My misses has been told that if they don't get to work, they don't get paid

[Marie]

My misses has been told that if they don't get to work, they don't get paid

not good 

normally they wait until its too late and we are stuck at work and they order us we cant travel duty of care and all.

thank god i have my snow kit in the car. 

[aaronjb]

My misses has been told that if they don't get to work, they don't get paid

Thanks to the wonders of the interwebs, I can work from anywhere.. but if A doesn't go to work then the shop doesn't open and she won't get paid; so I'll probably be on the roads regardless (assuming the winter tyres still have some grip, I may well have left most of the rear rubber on the tarmac a couple of nights ago  )

[Kevin Wood]

Time off for snow?

The local train service here has already cancelled tomorrows trains and folks working here were told to make arrangements with colleagues to travel via alternative means if they rely on the trains (e.g. drive, someone who lives in the same town as the office, etc)..

WTF? Not a single snowflake has fallen yet.

So, a mass transport system that ought to be able to cope (rail) just gives up, leaving more traffic on another mass transport system that doesn't cope (road).

[aaronjb]

WTF? Not a single snowflake has fallen yet.

So, a mass transport system that ought to be able to cope (rail) just gives up, leaving more traffic on another mass transport system that doesn't cope (road).

You couldn't make it up, could you?

http://nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/sa0f0de421c246aea4659fc6527bd1ee/details.html

Work is serviced by Chertsey station (see list of closures in the link above) - sometimes I have to side with all the folks at work from properly snowy countries in going 'WTF, England?'..

[STMO123]

I am so sick of this pathetic nation. It is, or might be, snow. That's all. Have a look back at the old news items about when we really did get snow. I used to walk two miles to school, it was never closed  because of snow and I never missed a day because of snow

Pathetic wimps.

[STMO123]

My missus is a headteachr in Sheffield. We live in Wakefield. She has never missed a day because of snow.

[Kevin Wood]

WTF? Not a single snowflake has fallen yet.

So, a mass transport system that ought to be able to cope (rail) just gives up, leaving more traffic on another mass transport system that doesn't cope (road).

You couldn't make it up, could you?

http://nationalrail.co.uk/service_disruptions/sa0f0de421c246aea4659fc6527bd1ee/details.html

Work is serviced by Chertsey station (see list of closures in the link above) - sometimes I have to side with all the folks at work from properly snowy countries in going 'WTF, England?'..

No doubt they don't pay as large a penalty if they cancel services in advance as opposed to running them late or cancelling on the day. In addition, I guess they've forced their staff to take the day off as leave. Pathetic!

[Marks DTM Calib]

The problems with the railway (scalextric country excluded) is the staff not getting to work, not the infrastructure.

I will still be doing my 100 miles round trip commute tomorrow as usual (never missed a days work ever due to snow and dont intend to start now)

[Rods2]

In other words number 10 or 11 on my snow gauge scale. 

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=111004.0

In the Ukraine in the last month they have had two 1m+ dumps of snow. Okay the first one cause a bit of disruption for 24 hours as they don't normally get it so bad so early, so the snowploughs were a bit slow reacting, but the last one a week a go, life carried on as normal.

In 1962-63 schools, public transport and life carried on as normal for me and most others. How would the modern wimps have coped?

[cleggy]

In other words number 10 or 11 on my snow gauge scale. 

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=111004.0

In the Ukraine in the last month they have had two 1m+ dumps of snow. Okay the first one cause a bit of disruption for 24 hours as they don't normally get it so bad so early, so the snowploughs were a bit slow reacting, but the last one a week a go, life carried on as normal.

In 1962-63 schools, public transport and life carried on as normal for me and most others. How would the modern wimps have coped?

Men went to work and we went to school, even when people had to dig a path to the pavement and then clear the pavements to walk if the buses didn't run but that wasn't often.

Today people see a snow flake and go back to bed

[bored bigyin54]

I am so sick of this pathetic nation. It is, or might be, snow. That's all. Have a look back at the old news items about when we really did get snow. I used to walk two miles to school, it was never closed  because of snow and I never missed a day because of snow

Pathetic wimps.

hear hear didn't miss my driving test because of snow 

[Lazydocker]

And I've got Autogrip Tyres that are past their best on the back of the car until tomorrow afternoon

I'll still be getting around though