Well, Am I?

[ItsAHollyJollyTee]

I grew up on the East Coast of the US. Every winter was like the one we're having now. But we dealt with it. We had snow tires. Schools did close, but maybe for a day. Because towns were prepared for it. Snowploughs. Grit. Salt.

As I sit here reading thread after thread about people being stuck, sliding, towns not ready for this, AIBU to expect it to be time for the people of the UK to get ready for this?

This is like last year. It will probably be like this next year.

So isn't it time to stop saying 'the UK never gets weather like this' and admit that, yeah, now we do. So let's be ready?

*Agreed

I think if more people got off their backside and helped clear snow then there wouldn't be as many problems on minor roads. I got a new snow shovel and even though the snow was very deep as it was fine it was easy to clear and ditn take very long. I live at the end of a cul-de-sac and where the last 7 houses are the drive goes downhill. My drive is very tricky as it slopes two ways so to get onto my drive I have to go a little way down the slope reverse uphill and round only for the drive to slope back toward the house so I try and clear itt and the bit of road outside

No fecker else bothers, last year I dug two neighbours out last year, one was panicking as she was sliding and was so pleased to see a little cat litter give her some grip... The other one got her hubby to drive up the slope as I cleared and gritted and then drove off without a word to me, so you do get a bit arrgghhhh

we had a problem locally during the last fall a few weeks ago. the council refused to put out any more grit salt for public to collect at the depot because they said people were taking too much. i can totally belive people were taking too much. there was a heck of a lot of snow!! but i can't help thinking that there could have been a better way to deal with that. maybe having someone man the distribution of it.

Sheesh yourself. No chips here, just hate the assumption made by most Americans I've met that everything in the States is bigger, better and faster.

YANBU. I think people should stop whining and get on with life. We only get 2-4 weeks of snow a year and unless you live in Scotland it isn't terrible. And as we live on a bastarding island, I don't see what the problem is with salt and grit. Although I am now kicking my dh for not getting the 4x4 I wanted.

I thought that was a fact not an assumption?

That was a joke, before the blazing torches come out.

lifeforrent my mums whinged and yapped at my dad last winter to change teh car for a 4x4 (she had a BMW). he eventually gave in but told her she would regret it as tehre wont be snow for another 20 years!! guess who asked to borrow her jeep today! she very smugly handed over the keys!!

Ha ha ha! I envy her! Smart lady :)

i don't blame her really, BMs are shite in the snow. i followed one today and it was sideways the whole way out the road.

SGM, at this point I'm ignoring her. I didn't start this thread to start a country war!

If it was a country war, hypothetically, who do you think would win, hypothetically.

Muah ha ha ha. (Licks her wooden spoon).

naughty LFR

If it's hypothetical, it doesn't count. :o (swings her coat over her shoulder and leaves...whistling Jingle Bells).

US. Bigger population, can lose more soldiers and keep fighting.

Next question!

Well I'm sure if the OP was from Siberia, she'd have talked about back home in Siberia. Just so happens she's from America. Fortune doesn't swing all ways. Muah ha ha.

Aw leave the gal from the US alone - some of my best friends are American

Seriously, though, OP, I'm 35 and last year was the 1st white Xmas I can remember. And I live up north.

We are much better prepped this year round our way too - roads all gritted, schools all open (pretty much). Think it's the southerners who've had it worst but then they're all soft as anyway [hopes to deflect UK vs. US row by starting a North vs. South one... ]

I have grit and sand and have done my drive and cleared my path.

Havent cleared the pavement yet as I kept thinking it was going to snow again, but there is grit under it and so it has already melted in places, so I am behaving responsibly as is the other single mum in the road!!

Funny how we are the only two out gritting and digging... No sign of any able bodied men...

Oh and yes Op you ARE BU. For all the reasons given to you, with the exception that roads should have grit boxes, so I can grit for free instead of spending money I dont have to make my neighbours (and us) safe

Oi Sufi how dare you call me soft...

Nah, sod it, you are right. We are soft... But to be fair I live in the place worst hit in last years snow (at least worst hit in the South)

someone tell me i have done the right thing here. i have shovelled the snow from my path and sprinkled cat litter on it (no salt and nowhere open to get any)

does the cat litter actually work or will I go on my hoop in the morning?

Dream - have just seen the weather reports about Dahn Sarf and can't quite believe it - I retract my statement about you all being soft! Weather up here in Manchester is nowt compared to what's happening elsewhere... hope all you southerners are safe at home.